![]() But what many don’t know is that there was another Microman manga licensed to rival publisher Akita. Moritou’s Microman manga had been serialized in Kodansha’s TV Magazine and got six compilation volumes (with the last quarter or so of the story never compiled until a republication of the entire saga during the 2000s revival). However, when Microman got its story reboot in 1981 to New Microman, Moritou left his manga duties for the series to focus instead on another Takara-related property, the manga adaptation of the Sunrise mecha anime Fang of the Sun Dougram. This final one is drawn, but not written, by the best-remembered manga artist, the late Yoshinori Moritou, who drew the most popular prior Microman manga from 1976 through 1980, which had a lot more time to develop its characters and serial storyline. Microman had at this point no less than five manga serializations since its start in 1974. If the manga seems a bit over-the-top melodramatic and perhaps not so noteworthy beyond the appearances of certain familiar MicroChange toys, that’s not too surprising. Beam Robo never saw actual release in the end, despite it being featured prominently in this catalog pamphlet…. At the end, we return to the second color portion with a look at the last announced planned MicroChange robot, Beam Robo. Note that like the rest of the catalog, the manga reads left-to-right western style. In this third section of Microman Secret File, the remainder of the black and white section of the catalog pamphlet is dedicated to a mini-manga. ![]() Horrors! What sort of plot have those dastardly Acroyears hatched this time?
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