Ariga’s Rockman Megamix Reprints Coming 5/26
Coming on May 26th to Japan will be the second reprints of the first two volumes from the Rockman Megamix manga by artist Hitoshi Ariga. Preorders are now being taken on Amazon of Japan for these 1,600 Yen (approximately $15) books.
For collectors, the big draw here is the new covers made for the books by Ariga himself. You can compare them to the previous covers shown in the link above.
Curiously, there has yet to be a reprint of the Rockman Remix manga that I’m aware of; I think some of the contents were taken for the new versions of Megamix, but the Rockman X Megamissions manga has not been among them, from what I’ve heard.
With any luck, Udon’s recent announcement of bringing Rockman manga to America will yield these tomes. And if so, hopefully we’ll get the whole lot of stories, both old and new, Classic and X.
It would also be nice if they had some sort of cover galleries as well. Or even all-new covers by Ariga, but that might be asking a bit much. That said, does anyone have a preference of covers for these stories?
Source: Protodude’s Rockman Corner
Filed under: Mega Man News
I just wish they could take the books and order them from left to right instead of right to left. (it makes it so difficult for me to enjoy with the right to left way)
Knowing UDON, if they use a new cover, they will print the manga with a cover from one of their own artist. They did so with the Street Fighter Sakura Ganbaru manga.
crap, i have the first book, but don’t really want to have a collection thats a mix of original and reprint. I’m really hoping they just translate these books and put them in the US. I would rebuy the first one in my language for sure.
This sort of scares me when awesome stuff from japan is licensed and commercialized for distribution here in America. I always fear a loss of information, scenes or even slight changes in translation and transitions when we receive foreign media. Like the pokemon series itself and Toshihiro Ono’s Pokemon manga. There are many pointlessly censored and altered things its not even funny. Of course nothing that extreme will happen in this case, but still I’d prefer non altered content. Cause I’m a fickle fag like that.