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« Comics - Japan / Project InfoFROM JAPAN Search Links Televi-Kun 1980/81 Shonen Jump 1980 Scanning Completion Summary
Shonen JumpThe instalments of this manga were quite a bit less difficult to find than Televi-Kun and also significantly cheaper.
2021.09.04I started off scanning and editing part 3. A few more evenings and the Shonen Jump side of the manga scanning project should be done. I did not expect to have the Shonen Jump bit done before Televi-Kun, since I started with Televi-Kun, but the Shonen Jump instalments were significantly easier to find: not amazingly easy to get all three, but still a lot easier. I am thinking of getting someone to translate these so that we know what the characters are saying, and don't just have the illustrations to go off. If anyone knows anything about doing that, maybe you could shoot me an email, or better still, let us know on the SFXB forum. Televi-Kun2020.04.10Found a scan of Masami Watanabe's double-page illustration for Feb 1981 Televi-Kun, uploaded by sousai_h 2020.10.16I first tried to pick up some of the six issues of Televi-Kun that contain X Bomber articles and instalments of the manga right around the time of the 40th anniversary of X Bomber appearing on television in Japan. People were bidding insane money and using a bidding proxy gave you a slight disadvantage. I then saw the people who'd won the auction posting images of the exact same item on Twitter. Found some new images from kyano13neo of Lamia and Makara, as well as a two cool alien monsters, fighting the Dai-X. 2020.11.13 I managed to get the November and December 1980 instalments of Televi-Kun magazine, featuring the first two of the six parts of one of the Japanese X Bomber manga stories. I had a chance to get instalments 3 and 6 from the same seller this week but I was flattened with work and it slipped my mind to snipe them. 2021.03.03It was very slow going trying to find any further instalments of Televi-Kun that have the X Bomber manga in them. March 1981 popped up and I've grabbed that as well. I already have the first two instalments; November and December 1980, but I have yet to scan them. 2021.04.10 I found the Feb 1981 edition of Televi-Kun, so we should now have 2/3rds of the Televi-Kun X-Bomber manga. 2021.04.23Also, I have received my latest care package from Japan with another instalment of the TV Kun X Bomber manga. 2021.05.02 Star Fleet Saturday was a bit delayed this week... It's been a bit of a tricky process getting to this point, since the books themselves are not that easy to obtain, and not that easy to scan, as it turns out, either. Anyway, out of the six instalments, I've managed to track down four in total and I'm working on the other two. 2021.05.07 Star Fleet Saturday didn't take much time to prepare this week, since the scanning of the second instalment of Televi-Kun had already been done last weekend. 2021.05.22I'm currently scanning the March 1981 issue of Televi-Kun, which contains an interesting instalment of the X-Bomber manga. The February issue is sitting in a warehouse in Japan, waiting to be shipped. 2021.07.10The Televi Kun manga scanning project ran a bit aground, as I haven't been able to find the 3rd (Jan 1981) or 6th (April 1981) issue, despite searching for them for some time. Issues 4 and 5 are either here, or are on the way. I plan to scan and editorialise them a bit all-together, and in the proper order, otherwise the result might be a bit disjointed. So, since I was having trouble progressing that, I turned my attention to the other X Bomber manga by Naoki Kamohara. That manga features in the 1980 Shonen Jump issues 6-8. 2021.08.10 One thing that was hanging up the X Bomber manga scanning project was the fact that one shipment from Japan was hugely delayed. The shipment contains the first instalment of the Shonen Jump manga. I already have the second one, and the third (and last) is in the warehouse in Japan. After that, all I need is the January and April instalments from Televi-Kun, and to get the last instalment of Shonen Jump shipped, and that should be all the materials for the project assembled. Update [ 2021.08.27 ] 2021.09.11I am keeping an eye open for the two missing instalments of Televi-Kun needed for the manga but I'm not hopeful about them materialising anytime soon, since I've not found them despite searching regularly for quite some time. In the meantime, I will scan the two instalments that I do have, that are not yet on the website and people can fill in the blanks as best they can. 2021.09.13 - Televi-Kun Manga 4 of 6 The February 1981 (4th) issue of Televi-Kun showed up about this time last month, having spent 75 days on the seven seas. Anyway, it's here and it's scanned and you can see my various remarks at the top of the page (click the image). I don't expect to find the January (3rd) and April (6th) issues anytime soon. Update - [ 2021.09.13 ] Anyway, we got a bit lucky and it looks as though we have the January issue, which will hopefully be on its long journey soon. 2021.10.16 2021.09.14 - TV Kun Manga 5 of 6I received this issue of TV-Kun some time ago (back in May) but encountered quite some difficulty, then, managing a really good scan of the Dai-X cutaway, since a lot of the image disappears into the spine of the book. Anyway, I revisited the process, since I had the February (4th) issue to scan as well. 2021.10.29 - TV-Kun Manga 3 of 6 I have finished scanning the relevant pages from the January 1981 TV-Kun, which arrived last week. There is one instalment, that I haven't been able to find yet, which is the last of the six issues with Star Fleet features. I did see one guy the other week on twitter in Japan, who had bought one of these TV-Kun issues. Infact, it might've been this one. He mentioned that it would be a great idea for someone to collect all six of them, which is a stunning idea. 2021.11.30 - TV-Kun Manga 6 of 6The 6th (April 1981) TV-Kun manga came up for auction. This issue lacks the concluding part of the manga that I was hoping for, but click through to find out what info it does have on Star Fleet. Directory contents last updated: 2022.08.09 |
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