Katsuya Terada's First Magazine Manga, Désert 2961, Online for the First Time Ever!

A few weeks ago VGDensetsu posted info on what may be Katsuya Terada's 1st magazine manga, Désert 2961, & there really wasn't anything about it online. So I located & imported it & just took a video of the whole volume before I scan it. This is probably the first time its been online:

In his original post Dom said this:

"An excerpt from what appears to be Katsuya Terada's first magazine manga, published in March 1986 in Bakīn Soul Rider Comic. You can feel the influence of Moebius and Métal Hurlant even in the title - Désert 2961 -, written in French."

He linked to this on Twitter:

たひね @tahi_ne

そういえば広井てつお先生のお手伝いしてた関係で寺田克也先生の漫画デビュー作品「DESERT2961」持ってたなあってふと思い出して探してみた。この本に載ってる広井てつお先生の「レッドゾーンファイティング」がWikipediaの作品リストから漏れてるんですよね。

Machine Translation:

"By the way, I used to help Tetsuo Hiroi, so I happened to have Katsuya Terada's manga debut, ``DESERT2961,'' so I suddenly remembered and looked for it. ``Red Zone Fighting'' by Tetsuo Hiroi, which is included in this book, is missing from Wikipedia's list of works."

And this product listing.

Soul Riders Comic, March 1986

Sekai Bunka Publishing, 

バキーン ＜Soul riders comic＞
世界文化社、1986.3

Mangaka Information: Kobayashi Susumu (Masaru)

I'm just working on re-building the artist information section of the site. This will be a mess for a while.


Susumu Kobayashi . こばやし将

• Twitter account: show_kob

ほとんど無名ですが 、今年で漫画家生活43年になりました。20代半ばから30代前半、我が漫画家人生で一番輝いていた時期に描いた作品群が「わんぱっくコミック・リバイバル」として電子書籍化され、配信中です。昔の思い出話や近況、漫画の宣伝等を呟きます 笑

I'm virtually unknown, but this year marks my 43rd year as a manga artist. The works I created in my mid-20s to early 30s, the period when I was at the peak of my career as a manga artist, have been made into e-books and are currently available as "Wanpaku Comic Revival." I'll be tweeting about old memories, my current situation, and promoting my manga, etc. lol

Kobayashi Susumu is a Japanese manga artist . His most well-known works include the comic adaptations of games such as "Valis" and "Dead Zone," which were serialized in "Wanpaku Comics" (Tokuma Shoten).

List of works:

• Valis: The Fantasy Soldier ( Wanpaku Comics , Tokuma Shoten , 1 volume)
• Dead Zone (Wanpaku Comics, Tokuma Shoten, 1 volume)

He has also written several comic book adaptations of games for game anthologies such as "Winning Techniques Complete Edition" in "Wanpaku Comics."

External links[ edit ]Masaru Kobayashi (@show_kob) - X (old Twitter)
Wanpaku Comic Revival (@ZOx1obzpflsFhhP) - X (old Twitter)

Mangaka Information: Akira Himekawa

I'm just working on re-building the artist information section of the site. This will be a mess for a while.

 

Mangaka Information: Ranmaru

Image from Mr. Kobayashi's twitter feed.

Kobayashi on Twitter: "This is a photo of me, Yamagami sensei, Ranmaru-san, and myself on a company trip to Hokkaido. The small man with the beard and bell-bottoms is Ranmaru-san. I've blurred out the area around his eyes just in case (lol). In front of the restaurant in Tsurui Village. This is when the gag "A crane comes from Tsurui Village" from Gaki Deka was born. #Ranmaru #Yamagami Tatsuhiko "

 

Ranmaru 乱丸

Is a Japanese manga artist . His most famous works are the comic adaptations of "The Legend of Zelda and "Link's Adventure," which were serialized in Wanpaku Comics (Tokuma Shoten.)

He was an assistant to Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 横山光輝, and Shinji Wada, 和田慎二, for many years.

List of works

(Links to translation of his Zelda comics can be found here until I update the links below)

• The Legend of Zelda (Wanpaku Comics, Tokuma Shoten, 1 volume)
• Volume 1
• The Adventures of Link (Wanpaku Comics, Tokuma Shoten, 2 volumes (volume 3: February 1988 to August 1988)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Doi Junior High School UFO Club (Wanpaku Comics December 1988 issue - January 1989 issue, not included in the book)
• Manga Junior High School World History 202 - Easily Pass the High School Entrance Exam! (Gakken, 1991)
• He has also written several comic book adaptations of games for game anthologies such as " Winning Techniques Complete Edition " in "Wanpaku Comics."

Mitsuteru Yokoyama's assistants: Fujio Akatsuka (as traveling assistant), Osamu Kishimoto, Narushima student, Hideoki Inoue, Ranmaru, Akira Kaku, Masashi Mori, Akira Saito, Yasutoshi Otomo

Shinji Wada's assistants: Masahiro Shibata, Miki Hayasaka, Ranmaru

Other works:

From Susan1n: "This mini-comic was drawn by Ran Maru to commemorate the release of Zelda on Famicom disk systems.  And according to Mr. Kobayashi, apparently it was this work that gave the green light to the release of the manga by Ran Maru"

"Mr. Kobayashi writes that these pictures are from the Family Computer Special magazine published by Tokuma Shoten." 

https://x.com/show_kob/status/1540212991739985920:
The origins of Ranmaru's "The Legend of Zelda" featured in Family Computer Special (1986)

These were sent to Susan1n in DMs by Kobayashi, one of Ranmaru's coworkers and friends. This is probably the correct order for the pages but I am not 100% on that:

こばやし将 @show_kob - Sep 28, 2024:
その昔、乱丸さん、すずお泰樹さんと3人で「スタジオあるまじろ」という名称で仕事を請け負っていた時期がありました。1985年講談社発行のこの「Theハレー彗星マガジン」もそのうちの1つ。巻頭のカラーイラストや記事に使われた多数のカット、漫画等を手分けして描いたのは懐かしい思い出です😊

Long ago, Ranmaru, Suzuo Taiki, and I were working under the name "Studio Almajiro." One of those jobs was "The Halley's Comet Magazine," published by Kodansha in 1985. I have fond memories of drawing the color illustrations at the beginning of the issue, as well as the many cuts and manga used in the articles.

Never Before Seen Zelda Manga Scans Trying to Predict what Link to the Past Will Be Like

TRANSLATIONS WANTED! If you would like to translate this, please contact me: melorasworld@gmail.com

Here's a small strategy guide Zelda manga that I just scanned that hasn't been online before! It was drawn by Hiroshi "Moga" Aizawa, 愛沢"モカ"ひろし, who also actually did work for the official Nintendo Player's Guide and Nintendo Power guides! It's pretty cool: it's speculating what Link to the Past will be like after Adventure of Link.

Find all 5 pages here. 

It's from this guide and here is the credit's page.

The title translates to something like "Emergency Report Super Famicom"
Published December 25, 1990, size B6 size, 79 pages, by Keibunsha, Magazine code 63550-53

Archival scans of Family Computer Magazine Special Edition: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Winning Guide

Here are the 1200dpi scans posted on archive.org

Family Computer Magazine Special Edition: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Winning Guideファミリーコンピュータ Magazine 緊急増刊 合本 リンクの冒険 必勝ガイド

I about died when I opened this, there's just so much art. There's several pieces of art I've never seen before on nearly every page, and there's 64 pages. And even better: some of it is new to the internet but obviously official. So now we actually have art for big bot, a king bubble, fireball version of bago-bago, a full image of Rah, and FINALLY a fokkeru and a rope. There's also a bunch of color variations. Then there's so many hand drawn maps that are simple but very cute and there is just SO MUCH art of Link that is very close to the manual art.

So this is a compilation of a feature spread across 3 Family Computer magazine issues that were just uploaded for the first time this month too. What's interesting is there's updated differences between those and this. Like the sprites get updated in the screenshots. You can find 600dpi scans those issues here, they were uploaded this month as well:

Edit: The original poster removed these, unfortunately. I have the issues and will be scanning them in the future.

ファミマガ 1987 No.2 (2月6日号)
ファミマガ 1987 No.3 (2月20日号)
ファミマガ 1987 No.4 (3月6日号)

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