#digitalmangapublishing

Welcome back! It’s been a while since we were here so I am glad to be sharing the Wonder 3 Kickstarter! 

The year is 196X. The Milky Way Confederation has been watching us and are having a meeting to decide if we should be allowed to continue to help ou planet which seems to be in a perpetual state of war, or just destroy us with an anti-proton bomb. Luckily for us, they decide that they should gather more information first, and send the “Wonder 3″ to Earth for 1 year to live among us and learn more. This team of humanoid aliens disguise themselves as Earthly animals: Captain Bokko as a rabbit, Nokko as a horse, and Pukko as a duck. Once on earth they run into a pair of human brothers, and there the adventures begin.

For this Kickstarter, digitalmanga has decided that this series the HARDCOVER treatment, which means this may be your opportunity for some very nice looking Tezuka work to spice up your bookshelf. The series is three volumes of about 200+ pages each, which means about 680 newly translated pages of Tezuka for us to enjoy.

The stretch goal this time around is for another Tezuka work called “The Film Lives On” which deals with Miyamoto Musashi and his dream to animate the most “alive” character that has ever been seen. In his journey he suffers adversity both the falling out with his best friend and animation partner Sasaki Kojiro, and the destruction of his work and eyesight at the hands of the Yakuza family of Otsu, the girl he loves. As they say in Hollywood, the show must go on, and Musashi will let nothing stop him.

The campaign overview is as follows:

$46,500 to publish the three volume “Wonder 3″ series in hardcover

$55,900 to additionally publish “The Film Lives On” in paperback 

The campaign is asking $25 from “Wonder 3″ Volume 1

If you prefer digital you can get all three volumes at the $38 tier.

But if you, like myself, need all three volumes for your Tezuka shelf, then the $70 tier is just right. Three hardcovers of Tezuka goodness delivered to your door.

Give the chart a look and decide which tier is right for you! Just make sure you help us hit the goal. Or if you can, just spread the word! Thanks digitalmanga

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/help-publish-wonder-3-by-osamu-tezuka-creator-of-a

I’d also like to give thanks to tezukainenglish for his great site, which is full of info on many Tezuka titles, and I used to help me write this.

Another month, another Tezuka Kickstarter! Not that I’m complaining in any way. I just recently got around to reading the previously Kickstarted Atom Cat and loved it. Up next: Storm Fairy. 

DMP’s new Kickstarter aims to publish one of Osamu Tezuka’s shojo works this time around. What is shojo? I’ll let them explain:

Shojo is a type of genre born in Japanese magazines that were segregated according to gender. Shonen and shojo was printed similarly like the funnies in your Sunday newspaper. Magazines aimed at boys created the genre shonen, magazines aimed at girls created shojo. Post-WWII showed a surge of girls interested in manga, and when Tezuka published Princess Knight, he raised the bar on what was acceptable for Japanese girls (at the time) could read.

Storm Fairy is made up of three stories, the first a drama about stolen identity and an imposter to the throne, the second about a mystery-solving girl and her canine companion, and the third abut a shape shifting fairy.

After the successful funding of FOUR books in their last Kickstarter, DMP has included two stretch goals for this campaign. The first is a reprinting of a previously Kickstarted title Unico, a book about the cutest unicorn you’ve ever seen. For those who missed the previous opportunity, like myself, this is a very welcome offering, especially with the improved paper quality. The second stretch goal is a printing of Crime and Punishment, a title which was previously released digitally. Like Brave Dan from the previous campaign, C&P was released on DMP’s website first, before being offered to print.

The campaign overview is as follows:

$14,200 for Storm Fairy  - which is all but guaranteed only three days in

$26,000 for Unico reprint - which would give us a $11,800 ‘campaign’ for Unico, which seems very doable.

$27,000 for a HIGHER QUALITY set of Unico images for the reprint. $1,000

$32,500 for Crime and Punishment - which if Unico is funded, gives us a $5,500 campaign for C&P, probably the smallest of the Tezuka campaigns so far.

This campaign is asking $20 for a print copy of Storm Fairy.

The previous Unico campaign had a price of $35 for the print copy.

The price of a digital copy of Crime and Punishment on emanga is $10, so assume $15 for print.

This gives us a total PROBABLE cost of $70 for all three books if all the goals are met. Which sounds pretty good to me! If I remember correctly last campaign I snagged four books for $90.

In addition to the print books, there are plenty of other things being offered such as shirts, posters, dresses and some Tezuka collectibles.

Please help us Tezuka fanatics get these titles funded, we will be very grateful!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitalmanga/publish-tezukas-storm-fairy-and-reprint-unico/