This is mad niche. Round Vernian Vifam is made by the guy who created the Gundam series. A doujin existing of this tells us that Manabe Jouji has been going at it since the 1980s.
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It's great to see more of the old Studio Katsudon books translated, there's so many of them.
But then it would be nice if more of his normal mangas got translated too. Drakuun never had the final issues published in English so we don't know how it ended (his books always have some bittersweet or twist endings) - not to even mention the English books being censored.
"This is mad niche. Round Vernian Vifam is made by the guy who created the Gundam series. A doujin existing of this tells us that Manabe Jouji has been going at it since the 1980s."
Not really. This is what Mark Simmons had to say when Tomino and Vifam were brought up:
"Actually, Vifam seems to be what the Sunrise producers had in mind before Tomino was hired on for Gundam. The original concept for Gundam was apparently a space version of Jules Verne's "Two Years' Vacation" - shipwrecked kids band together to survive and overcome evil adults - and after Gundam ended up going off in a different direction, they ended up taking a second pass at that idea with Vifam. (According to the Japanese Wikipedia, this is the main reason Tomino was given a concept credit on Vifam.)"