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Marionette Generation PR

FROM THE CHARACTER DESIGNER OF ROBOTECH...

MARIONETTE GENERATION
VOL. 1: ENTRANCES
GRAPHIC NOVEL

AN ARTIST, A GIRL, AND A LIVING DOLL!

San Francisco, CA (9/15/00)-Viz Comics proudly announces the January 2001 release of MARIONETTE GENERATION, the first volume of the manga series by Haruhiko Mikimoto, character designer of MACROSS/ROBOTECH. This offbeat romantic comedy, currently serialized in Viz's monthly manga magazine ANIMERICA EXTRA, combines lush artwork with a quirky sense of humor.

Illustrator Izumi Morino may not be able to find work, but his life is still very complicated. Kinoko, a cute junior-high student, has become his de facto assistant and attempts to run his life through whining and wheedling. Things get weird one morning when she catches him in bed with a doll...not an adult doll, but a cute rag doll. Embarrassing to be sure, but Izumi has no idea how it got there...and even less idea what to think when the doll starts to walk, talk and call him names!

In This Volume: "Who am I? Where did I come from?" asks the doll...and it's staying at Izumi's place 'till it finds out! What will this mean for Kinoko's underage crush on Izumi? Can Izumi handle the trials of life as a commercial artist who specializes in drawing cute girls? Who is the teenage boy who's taking photographs of Izumi? And who is the mysterious fashion doll that sees the rag doll as its enemy? This graphic novel collects the stories from ANIMERICA EXTRA Part 3 #3 through #10.

Famed for his beautiful, delicate illustrations and painterly color works, Haruhiko Mikimoto has worked as a character designer for many different anime. Starting as a self-described fan, he soon got a job at Studio Nue, and a sketch of a Chinese girl doodled in a notebook was enough to lead him to a character design stint on the 1982 TV series SUPERDIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS (known in the U.S. as the first part of ROBOTECH). His work also appears in MACROSS II, MEGAZONE 23, ORGUSS, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0080: WAR IN THE POCKET, GUNBUSTER, and many other anime series, as well as video games such as QUO VADIS. His manga works include MACROSS 7 TRASH and MARIONETTE GENERATION, which started in 1989 and ran for several years in the Japanese animation magazine NEWTYPE.

MARIONETTE GENERATION is written and drawn by Haruhiko Mikimoto. It is b&w, 192 pages long and retails for $15.95 USA/$24.95 Canada.

http://www.animerica-mag.com/anime_extra/marionette.html

The preceding was an excerpt from a press release sent out by Viz.

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	Marionette Generation PR FROM THE CHARACTER DESIGNER OF ROBOTECH... MARIONETTE GENERATION VOL. 1: ENTRANCES GRAPHIC NOVEL AN ARTIST, A GIRL, AND A LIVING DOLL! San Francisco, CA (9/15/00)-Viz Comics proudly announces the January 2001 release of MARIONETTE GENERATION, the first volume of the manga series by Haruhiko Mikimoto, character designer of MACROSS/ROBOTECH. This offbeat romantic comedy, currently serialized in Viz's monthly manga magazine ANIMERICA EXTRA, combines lush artwork with a quirky sense of humor. Illustrator Izumi Morino may not be able to find work, but his life is still very complicated. Kinoko, a cute junior-high student, has become his de facto assistant and attempts to run his life through whining and wheedling. Things get weird one morning when she catches him in bed with a doll...not an adult doll, but a cute rag doll. Embarrassing to be sure, but Izumi has no idea how it got there...and even less idea what to think when the doll starts to walk, talk and call him names! In This Volume: "Who am I? Where did I come from?" asks the doll...and it's staying at Izumi's place 'till it finds out! What will this mean for Kinoko's underage crush on Izumi? Can Izumi handle the trials of life as a commercial artist who specializes in drawing cute girls? Who is the teenage boy who's taking photographs of Izumi? And who is the mysterious fashion doll that sees the rag doll as its enemy? This graphic novel collects the stories from ANIMERICA EXTRA Part 3 #3 through #10. Famed for his beautiful, delicate illustrations and painterly color works, Haruhiko Mikimoto has worked as a character designer for many different anime. Starting as a self-described fan, he soon got a job at Studio Nue, and a sketch of a Chinese girl doodled in a notebook was enough to lead him to a character design stint on the 1982 TV series SUPERDIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS (known in the U.S. as the first part of ROBOTECH). His work also appears in MACROSS II, MEGAZONE 23, ORGUSS, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0080: WAR IN THE POCKET, GUNBUSTER, and many other anime series, as well as video games such as QUO VADIS. His manga works include MACROSS 7 TRASH and MARIONETTE GENERATION, which started in 1989 and ran for several years in the Japanese animation magazine NEWTYPE. MARIONETTE GENERATION is written and drawn by Haruhiko Mikimoto. It is b&w, 192 pages long and retails for $15.95 USA/$24.95 Canada. http://www.animerica-mag.com/anime_extra/marionette.html The preceding was an excerpt from a press release sent out by Viz. Back