Orion - Masamune Shirow November 1, 2006
Posted by AxeMan808 in : AxeMan808, Comics, Dark Horse, Manga , trackbackOrion 1-6 (complete)
Masamune Shirow
Dark Horse
From http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/1073/orion.htm
Shirow: “Orion is a light-hearted manga: sort of comedy based on Japanese mythology seasoned with H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthuthu myths. It’s the story of Earths genesis (destruction?) triggered by sorcerers in super-ancient times who summon gods and use special nine-headed Naga rituals (this is obviously fiction and I beg forgiveness of any Christian or Hindu readers — all religions have their own creations myths, after all). I may have gone over board a bit with all the kanji double and triple meanings that I used but it is a rather conceptual story and I had a lot of fun drawing it. Perhaps as a result, Orion also has a slightly raw rhythm to it. Interestingly the target reader-ship turned out to be quite a bit different in the end than I had originally planned. I think of Orion as being in the same view as Black Magic, and sort of a counterpart to Appleseed.”
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