Megatokyo
MegaTokyo is a by Fred Gallagher (aka Piro ) drawn American webcomic in manga style ( dōjinshi ), which has since its launch on August 14, 2000 developed a cult factor with ever-increasing traffic.
Originally MegaTokyo was co-founded by Rodney Caston (aka Largo ), who helped in the first year when writing the story. Meanwhile, Fred Gallagher, however, is solely responsible for story, drawings and page design. MegaTokyo is now his main occupation.
All strips are freely available on megatokyo.com. Some of the stories in book form in the U.S. publisher IC Entertainment (formerly " Ironcat " ) published, due to discrepancies between MegaTokyo and IC Entertainment will be released but the new edition of the first volume and volumes two and three of Dark Horse Comics. Band four and five are published by DC Comics ' CMX imprint. In the Internet there are fan translations into several languages. Based on these, among other translations of the Books in German ( in Eidalon publisher) and Italian were released. In addition, there are independent translations in Polish. The manga publisher Kodansha has announced a Japanese edition of the first volume, published in 2009.
In July 2004, Mega Tokyo was the zehntbestlaufende manga in the U.S.. The highest placing at Nielsen BookScan took the third volume on 20 February 2005 with 3rd place. He had reached the best placement for a Ameri manga.
- 5.1 Books
- 5.2 PlayStation Portable
Content
MegaTokyo tells the story of two Americans Piro and Largo, who are stuck without money in Tokyo. Most of the humor in the comic is based on video games, in-jokes about manga and anime, and cultural differences between the U.S. and Japan.
At the beginning try Piro and Largo to get tickets for the U.S. entertainment trade show Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3) - without success. Largo is about so frustrated that he gets drunk, his pants down leaves and insulted the E3 massive. He wakes up later on a plane to Japan: Piro had decided to leave the U.S. for safety for a while, and without further ado bought two way tickets to Tokyo. Once there, the two immediately storm the toy and computer stores. Since they doing but put on their credit cards, they can no longer afford a return ticket and sit tight in Japan.
In the further course of plots from which the draw with manga character dynamics of emotional stress ratios between Piro on the one hand and the individual female main characters the other hand. For although he always has the best and friendly intentions, the girl opposite ensures Piros awkward behavior repeatedly discord. So it happens that he buries in manga to find it tips or sitting around somewhere and ponders how one manages not to hit a woman over the head - and he again missed an appointment that's why. In addition, he has little self-confidence and self-esteem, therefore just tries to escape those who actually feel something for him (which he does not recognize or interpreted as compassion ), and not about his own feelings clear.
Another storyline that strong computer game character, is to Largos " fighting evil ", where he can be seen latter in everything and everybody thinks that the threat may be real but when about Ed tries to destroy Ping or Dom Erika for Sega wants to hire an advertising figure.
Due to the enormous difference in the narrative time (since 14 August 2000 ) and the story time (50 days plus one per chapter), it is sometimes difficult to keep the context in mind. On the translation side, the individual courses of action to story threads are therefore grouped together as an aid.
Origin of the name
MegaTokyo got its name because Rodney Caston the Internet domain after a failed project for Anime News ( " Slashdot Anime " ) set available for internet comic.
The Tokyo of the future is in manga and anime often referred to as "Mega Tokyo" or " Neo -Tokyo " (for example in Akira ). In many of these stories, the city is devastated by disasters or a nuclear war, but it is then built larger and more beautiful again.
Role Rodney Castons
Gallagher and Caston had different ideas about how the comic should develop. Gallagher took over more and more the work of the author. Finally, the two separated in May 2002 and Gallagher Caston bought the domain from. The legal details of the separation remained private.
In January 2005, a controversy broke out after Scott Kurtz of PvP in a forum wrote a post in which he congratulated Caston to his impending fatherhood and Fred Gallagher accused of stealing Megatokyo of Caston. Gallagher declared that there were creative differences and pointed out that the separation was peaceful. Also Caston expressed shortly thereafter accordingly.
Characters
(Note: In Japanese name, the surname, and then the first name is mentioned first. )
Main characters
Minor characters
Publications
Currently (January 2011) are published on megatokyo.com cleared Comics also printed in six volumes. Translations of the first volumes in German and some other languages are also published.
- English Fred Gallagher ( Illustrator ), Rodney Caston: Megatokyo Vol 1 Chapter Zero. Studio Ironcat, 2003. ISBN 1929090307 (English)
- Fred Gallagher ( Illustrator ), Rodney Caston: Megatokyo, Vol 1, Dark Horse Comics, 2004 ISBN 1-59307-163-9 (English).
- Fred Gallagher ( Illustrator ), Rodney Caston. Megatokyo, Vol 2 Dark Horse Comics, 2004 ISBN 1-59307-118-3 (English)
- Fred Gallagher. Megatokyo, Vol 3 Dark Horse Comics, 2005 ISBN 1-59307-305-4 (English)
- Fred Gallagher: Megatokyo, Vol 4 DC Comics, July 2006 ISBN 1-4012-1126-7 (English).
- Fred Gallagher: Megatokyo, Vol 5 DC Comics, May 2007 ISBN 978-1-4012-1127-1 (English).
- Fred Gallagher: Megatokyo, Vol 6, DC Comics, July 2010 ISBN 978-1-4012-2481-3 (English).
- Fred Gallagher ( Illustrator ), Rodney Caston: Megatokyo 1 Eidalon Verlag, 2004 ISBN 3-936686-81-5 ( German ).
- Fred Gallagher ( Illustrator ), Rodney Caston: Megatokyo 2 Eidalon Verlag, 2005 ISBN 3-936686-82-3 ( German ).
- Fred Gallagher: Megatokyo 3 Eidalon Verlag, 2005 ISBN 3-936686-83-1 ( German ).
PlayStation Portable
The German version of Mega Tokyo was the first comic that a German publisher for the PlayStation Portable ( PSP) from Sony offered. The offer of the Eidalon publisher is free and can be downloaded from its website.