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A large part of this spinoff is integrated into newer editions of the Devilman manga, namely the deluxe edition and the revised edition. The art is by Go Nagai and the story was collaborated with Yasutaka Nagai, his brother, who also wrote the novel version of Devilman which shares the same title as this spinoff.
Also Adolf Hitler is a character in this.
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This manga has some history with the US comic market, and it's a tragic tale. I'll quote part of Jason Thompson's 2010 article on Devilman as I post.
"The Devilman manga has been published around the world, but never in English, despite the fact that it's only 5 volumes long. The sad thing is, it's not like Nagai didn't want to get published in America."
"For much of his career, Nagai had an active interest in the Western market, encouraged perhaps by fans such as Jo Duffy, a Marvel Comics editor (and, for a brief time, the rewriter of Viz's Naruto). In 1983 Nagai drew an original color short story, Oni, for Marvel's Epic Magazine (a Heavy Metal-like fantasy/sci-fi/adult comics magazine). That was about as much as a manga artist could hope to get from Marvel, but the mid-'80s was a time when black-and-white, small press comics were on the rise."
"The anime of Mazinger Z, Nagai's other shonen manga epic, was released on American television in the censored but still-recognizable form of Tranzor Z in 1985. Perhaps thinking the time was ripe, in 1986 Nagai self-published the first volume of Devilman in America under the Dynamic Productions label. The resulting manga, "Devilman: The Devi's Incarnation", was a gloriously uncut, faithful translation, a 200-page black & white book, with only left-to-right mirror-imaging and an American comics trim size as concessions to the American market."
"Sadly, for whatever reason (Too long? Too weird? No marketing? Americans like more polished art?), it sank like a stone, leaving no impression on the world of American comics, which just one year later would see the launch of Viz…who, unlike Nagai, chopped up their manga into American-size 32-page chunks. Today, Devilman: The Devil's Incarnation is one of the rarest manga ever produced for English. One copy is sitting boxed up somewhere in the Viz offices; I've never seen another copy anywhere. It's a sad proof of the fact that you can publish an awesome-looking graphic novel with a great translation and still, no one will buy it."
"Not one to give up, in 1988 Nagai created a new work specifically for the American market, a very (emphasis on very) loose adaptation of his giant robot epic Mazinger Z (en.wikipedia.org
"Sadly, both publishers treated Nagai's work as badly as, or worse than, the English localizers who chopped up Tranzor Z. The tiny Studio Ironcat released a few issues of New Cutie Honey, an adult spin-off of Nagai's original magical-girl series Cutie Honey, but their dismal translation and print quality made the result hardly appealing."
"The Verotik story was even sadder. Horror/Goth rock musician Glenn Danzig (en.wikipedia.org
(He thinks Shin Devilman is disposable, I don't)
"The choice of Shin Devilman was presumably to sell the story better in self-contained comic book issues, but the true terror of the Verotik Edition was not the story, it was the coloring. Verotik's Devilman featured the worst digital coloring ever inflicted upon any black & white manga, with the whole thing soaked in muddy mid-90s Photoshop greens and reds and browns."
"Not only that, the colorist "enhanced" the original art by adding extra details. That's right: HE GAVE THE CHARACTERS NOSTRILS. Rumor has it that Nagai himself didn't see the book until the 1995 San Diego Comic-Con, when he was invited as a guest of Verotik, and he was not pleased. The book switched to a different colorist with issue #3, removing the nostrils and making the whole thing look marginally acceptable, but it was too late and the third issue was the last."
"And so, the attempts at publishing Devilman in English came to an inglorious end. Except, that is, for Kodansha themselves, who in 2003 released the entire series in an awesome bilingual edition in five volumes. This edition is still fairly easy to find, and very much worth reading."
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Forgot to say. Masaki Tsuji also apparently collaborated on this. He's an anime writer on Devilman, the TV series and many other Nagai anime.
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>artist named Adolf
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Chapter 2
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>Tranzor Z
>All this shit about Devilman and Go Nagai not entering the american market
The rest of the world like his works why the americans don't?
Even my father was into Mazinger Z when he was a kid.
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He's finally entering mainstream US market now with Netflix.
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Does this manga have the beach chapter where Ryo gets butthurt at Miki?
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No, you're looking for the summer side story one shot, which is included in the deluxe edition of devilman
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Onto Chapter 3!
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Naughty Akira
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I think this may be the greatest page in history
Imagine trying to explain this to someone
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