Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Rockman 7 Manga Reprint Covers Revealed

Shigeto Ikehara’s Rockman 7 manga is making a comeback later this spring, and as anticipated, the 2011 reprints of volume 1 and 2 sport semi-new artwork by Ikehara himself. Mighty cool illustrations, if you ask me:


Both volumes, original slated to ship at the end of March, are now looking to release on April 27. The Rockman 8 manga reprints, however, remain penned in for May.

For now at least, the books will remain exclusive to Japan. However, given Udon's recent track record of localizing new Rockman manga a year to months after a domestic release, we may yet see an English version of RM7. Fingers crossed!

Source: Tanomi

16 comments:

  1. I can't wait! I'm gonna order them from Japan the moment they come out! :)

    It will be great Japanese practice!

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  2. New artwork, huh? That's great. I love Shigeto Ikehara's works, and I'm glad to see that he "still has it."

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  3. Oh wait, I just realized that these covers are in fact not new artwork.

    http://rockmanpm.wikispaces.com/Rockman+7+Vol.+3

    ...I kinda thought they looked familiar...

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  4. Yeah, none of those images on the covers are new, they are just newly colored.

    Dr. Jerk pointed out the Forte and the Rock from the original Vol. 3 cover are now separated. But the Spring Man image is just taken from Spring's chapter, Cloud from the final chapter of Vol. 3, the factory-like background of the new Vol. 2 is the intro image to Burst Man's stage/chapter, etc. All recycled.

    Snazzy American NES boxart mockup that Vol. 2 cover is...LOL :D

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  5. What? The cover of volume 2 doesn't look anything like the American boxart.

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  6. The hell's with Mega's hand in the first cover?

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  7. Dr. Jerk: He meant how it looked like a generic Megaman NES cover, with a big Megaman on front, and random robot masters in the back trying to kill him =P

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  8. I wouldnt mind seeing Ikehara's mangas coming West-side.

    Both his and Iwamoto's are long overdue for a western release.

    In fact, theya re very likely to localize this- and given the fact that they seem to be selling well, my hopes are pretty high for the X mangas.

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  9. Uhm...if this is the Rockman 7 manga, why is he wearing the Rush armor from Rockman 6? Or am I mixing up my games?

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  10. Very nice. The style is very faithful to Rockman. I definitely hope Udon picks them up.

    I'm also very interested in the Rockman 8 manga. I don't think I've seen it, but MM8 is my favorite, so.. definitely will look out for it now.

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  11. @TAG: It's... open? I'm not sure I see the problem.

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  12. Want to see Wily Man! :)

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  13. @TAG: It's a stylization, it's meant to look 'cartoony'. So what?

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  14. Thank you anonymous. That's exactly what I meant, to answer Dr. Jerk's query.

    @Maq: After you collect the RUSH plates in 7, yes, you get the Rush Super Adaptor, which combined the powers of 6's Jet and Power. Basically same look.

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  15. Personally, I'm kind of 'meh' on the Ikehara manga. It would be OK if they were translated, but I can't say I'm really looking forward to it. I think I have all of them, and to be honest, the stories are extremely boring and formulaic. Especially the early ones.

    They're basically: Rockman fights his way to Robot Master. Rockman gets his butt kicked. Rockman finds Robot Master's weakness. Rockman beats Robot Master. We snore.

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  16. @kobun37: Isn't that the same story of the games? :P We usually get beaten by a boss until we learn his movements and weaknesses. It's just a "mangalized" version of them.

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