Robot (manga)
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Robot is a series of books containing the art of various Asian artists, created by Range Murata
. Volume 1 was released on October 21, 2004, and ten volumes have currently been released.
Digital Manga Publishing
was originally responsible for the North American distribution, with the first volume being released August 6, 2005. However, due to talks over publishing negotiations breaking down, DMP stopped publishing Robot after Volume 3. Rights were picked up by UDON
Entertainment who began distribution on December 24, 2007 with Volume 4, with the plan of releasing all subsequent releases on a quarterly basis, but has since halted after the fifth volume.
's appendix to Manga The Complete Guide, he describes it as "an original dôjinshi with fabulous production values".
Range Murata
is a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6....
. Volume 1 was released on October 21, 2004, and ten volumes have currently been released.
Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English, Japanese anime, manga, and related merchandise. The company has several subdivisions: Digital Manga Publishing, which publishes Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in North America with multiple imprints,...
was originally responsible for the North American distribution, with the first volume being released August 6, 2005. However, due to talks over publishing negotiations breaking down, DMP stopped publishing Robot after Volume 3. Rights were picked up by UDON
UDON
UDON Entertainment Corporation is a studio of Asian-influenced comic book creators that provides creative services to the entertainment industry. The company is a publisher of comic books, graphic novels, and art books, as well as English editions of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa titles. Erik...
Entertainment who began distribution on December 24, 2007 with Volume 4, with the plan of releasing all subsequent releases on a quarterly basis, but has since halted after the fifth volume.
Artists Involved
- Keith Seifert
- Range MurataRange Muratais a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6....
- Hiroyuki AsadaHiroyuki Asadais a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his steampunk series Tegami Bachi . The first manga series he created was called I'll, and was a basketball series. All of Asada's manga were serialized in the monthly shōnen anthology Monthly Shōnen Jump...
- Yoshitoshi ABeYoshitoshi ABeis a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. His works have an edgy style due to, among other things, his not using a ruler while drawing as is usual for most anime-style art....
- Mami Itou
- OkamaOkama (artist)Okama is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He is known as the artist of Cloth Road as well as the original character designer for Himawari and Glass no Kantai...
- Yu Kinutani
- Makoto Kobayashi
- Sabe
- Kei Sanbe
- Shou TajimaShou Tajima, born February 7, 1966 in Saitama, Japan, is a manga illustrator and anime character designer. He has done character designs for the anime Kai Doh Maru, Otogi Zoshi, the CGI OVA Galerians: Rion, as well as Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren....
- Shin Nagasawa
- Hanaharu Naruco
- Mie Nekoi
- HACCAN
- Ugetsu HakuaUgetsu Hakua, is a Japanese artist best known as the conceptual character designer for Burst Angel. More recently, though, he created the main character designs for the anime The Tower of Druaga. Apart from that, he has worked on the visual novel games Magical Girl AI and Samurai Jupiter...
- Shigeki Maishima
- Yasuto Miura
- Miggy
- Suzuhito YasudaSuzuhito Yasuda, is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He most recognized for illustrating the light novels series Durarara!! and Kamisama Kazoku both adapted into anime series, and for being the original creator of the manga series Yozakura Quartet which was also adapted into an anime series.- Biography...
- YUG
- Imperial Boy
- Dowman Sayman
- Hirotaka Maeda
- Osamu KobayashiOsamu KobayashiOsamu Kobayashi is the name of:*Osamu Kobayashi , animation director and founder of Ajia-do Animation Works*Osamu Kobayashi , director of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad and Paradise Kiss...
- Kei ToumeKei Toumeis a Japanese manga artist.Kei Toume studied at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Her first manga, Rokujō gekijō, was published in Comic Burger magazine in 1992. The manga won her the Shiki prize in a contest held by Kodansha in 1993. A year later, her follow-up manga Mannequin also won a prize.She...
- Kengo Yonekura
- RCO Wada
- Enomoto
- Kouji OgataKouji Ogatais a Japanese artist, character designer, and manga artist best known for his work on the Boogiepop series and Gin-iro no Kami no Agito. He was born on December 14, 1970. He has another pen name .- External links :...
- Yusuke Kozaki
- Yumi Tada
- Fuji Jun
- Hyung-tae KimHyung-tae KimHyung-Tae Kim is a Korean artist. He has designed characters for video games such as the Magna Carta series and the later installments of the War of Genesis series .Kim began his video games career working in the field of background music, then shifted to art...
- Shuzilow Ha
- Neon Vision
- Michio Murakawa
Figures
Various characters from the first volume were made in to a figure collection . Figures included were:- Groundpass Drive by Range MurataRange Muratais a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6....
- ...of the Planetarium by Sho-u Tajima
- Pez and Hot Strawberry by Hiroyuki AsadaHiroyuki Asadais a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his steampunk series Tegami Bachi . The first manga series he created was called I'll, and was a basketball series. All of Asada's manga were serialized in the monthly shōnen anthology Monthly Shōnen Jump...
- Dragon Fly by Shigekimaeshima
- Ebony and Ivory by Suzuhito YasudaSuzuhito Yasuda, is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He most recognized for illustrating the light novels series Durarara!! and Kamisama Kazoku both adapted into anime series, and for being the original creator of the manga series Yozakura Quartet which was also adapted into an anime series.- Biography...
- Eventyr by Haccan
Reception
In Jason ThompsonJason Thompson (writer)
Jason Thompson is a manga critic, journalist, writer and comics artist.-Life and career:...
's appendix to Manga The Complete Guide, he describes it as "an original dôjinshi with fabulous production values".