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The very existence of éX-Driver manga




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dormcat
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Joined: 08 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:48 am Reply with quote
Somehow I doubt the very existence of éX-Driver manga. It seems to me that it was a project initiated by Kosuke Fujishima but had never been drawn by him. A comparable case is Mao-chan and Ken Akamatsu; he created the project and designed characters but didn't draw it into a serializing manga personally (Mao-chan manga was later drawn by Akamatsu's assistant). Japanese Wikipedia doesn't even mention the existence of the manga, yet the English Wikipedia does (probably came from ANN) by user Ganryuu on 2006-08-05. Furthermore, neither Kodansha nor Amazon.jp has éX-Driver manga.

Thoughts?
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undeadben



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:41 am Reply with quote
I'm usually not much help in these things since I can't read the Japanese sites, but if this can be of any use...

Kosuke Fujishima's page on the Japanese Wiki doesn't list the éX-Driver manga as one of his works either. The only scanslation index site that even has an entry for it is using a picture of the volume 1 DVD, but no sources or links at all. Heh, of the only 2 users on that site who posted comments on the entry one is asking where the manga is and the other is commenting on the anime.

Searching through any Japanese manga seller I can think of right now I get no hits, except for the ones that also sell anime. Amazon Japan I thought would get some hits from used sellers but all I found were what I think are guide books for one of the OAV series. I even tried searching through 8 different torrent sites thinking that maybe someone might have uploaded a scan at some point but I got no hits, well except for anime.

As for the English Wiki article, aside from using ANN as a source, I think I know how they came up with "éX-Driver is a manga series, created and authored by Kosuke Fujishima, which was adapted into an anime series..." If you let Google translate the page for you, the first line in the Japanese wiki article reads "The comic book is EKUSUDORAIBA Kosuke Fujishima is in charge of planning to draft character draft OVA work," which I know is wrong.

I vote for - doesn't exist.
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