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NEWS: Trigun: Multiple Bullets' Boichi Ends Wallman Manga




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Gasero



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:54 am Reply with quote

Wallman vol 2 cover...Wow, talk about a cover that makes me immediately lose interest in what is being offered. That female's is either extremely flexible or her spine is broken.

Is the manga ending because the story is done or because the obvious pandering market is saturated? Plenty of panty shots to go around I guess. Fanservice has its place, but I think too many artists are relying on it too much.
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RagnarIV



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:01 am Reply with quote
To clarify: "Trigun: Multiple Bullets" is an anthology comic. There are a handful of authors contributing in addition to Boichi, such as Satoshi Mizukami, Akira Sagami, and Nightow himself.
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yanv



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 3:12 pm Reply with quote
Gasero wrote:
Wallman vol 2 cover...Wow, talk about a cover that makes me immediately lose interest in what is being offered. That female's is either extremely flexible or her spine is broken.

Is the manga ending because the story is done or because the obvious pandering market is saturated? Plenty of panty shots to go around I guess. Fanservice has its place, but I think too many artists are relying on it too much.


Boichi is well known for his hyper-sexualized art style. But really, he just loves drawing the human form because his comics have plenty of (semi-)naked men with extensive musculature.

Two of his manga are now ending because of the storylines (the other being Sun-Ken Rock).
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KH91



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 4:38 pm Reply with quote
Bring on the fanserice. Also, her outfit sort of reminded me of Gantz.
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Animerican14



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 4:45 pm Reply with quote
Heh, this news is kind of convenient, considering that I still have a library copy of Trigun: Multiple Bullets checked out and I keep meaning to look up what else Boichi has done. Haven't given time to all of that anthology's stories yet, but Boichi's "The Lost Plant" has definitely stood out. There's a lot of great drawing and shading in his work, at least on a technical level; his body drawings make me think a bit of the sexualized musculature you'd find in some western comics. It can get pretty skeevy though, whether it's the clothed camel-toe/labia in the opening color pages or the Plant's frontal nudity throughout. (Not to mention, there are weird sexual connotations to the plot and the presentation of it, where spoiler[the titular Plant asks Vash to kill her 'child,' which is essentially a miniature black hole that could destroy the planet, before it's 'born.'])

Gasero wrote:
Wallman vol 2 cover...Wow, talk about a cover that makes me immediately lose interest in what is being offered. That female's is either extremely flexible or her spine is broken.

Is the manga ending because the story is done or because the obvious pandering market is saturated? Plenty of panty shots to go around I guess. Fanservice has its place, but I think too many artists are relying on it too much.

I think the fan service is what helps, much more so than hurts, whatever success manga like his can have, yo. Why do you think so many artists start out doing R-18 art and doujin work for Comiket? (Hell, even the manga-ka behind Yotsuba& started out in that scene.) Razz

yanv wrote:
Boichi is well known for his hyper-sexualized art style. But really, he just loves drawing the human form because his comics have plenty of (semi-)naked men with extensive musculature.

Doe he draw them much more than he does (semi-)naked women with extensive musculature? Seemed he was more focused on drawing females than males in his Trigun work.
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yanv



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 5:23 pm Reply with quote
Animerican14 wrote:
Does he draw them much more than he does (semi-)naked women with extensive musculature? Seemed he was more focused on drawing females than males in his Trigun work.


Surprisingly enough, if memory serves right, SKR has an equivalent amount of both. He's definitely more fond of sexy clothing on women, though. But I guess if you find tailored suits and/or wife-beaters + sweats on men 'sexy', then there's plenty there.
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noblesse oblige



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:24 pm Reply with quote
I wouldn't say Boichi's art is known for being "hyper-sexualized". His art is just "hyper-detailed" but if you happen to be reading the comics where he is trying to be risque, that is what you are going to get. He has also created things like Raqiya, (which is published in English by One Peace Books), and (my personal favorite), Hotel, a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence tasked with the protection of humanity's DNA.
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roxybudgy



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:11 am Reply with quote
I clicked on the article because the cropped image on ANN's front page left me baffled at what sort of position/pose this woman must be in. Looked like she had an arm growing out of her neck, or was twisted really badly.



Seeing the full image, I'm still baffled, but less so.
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Joe Carpenter



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:03 pm Reply with quote
DAMN, that's the tightest outfit I've ever seen, it's looks like they painted rubber on her. Shocked
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