Today we have a special interview with mappy, one of the team of artists (who are also of course Shenmue fans!) who recently released an amazing limited-print Shenmue doujinshi [fan-made comic book] called "Mankan Zenseki".
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| The cover of the "Mankan Zenseki" comic book. |
The original interview in Japanese is included after the English translation.
英訳の後に日本語のインタビューの原文を掲載しています。
The 100-page book was released on 29th December 2020, and is A5 size in size. The cover illustration, shown above, wraps completely around to the back, so if two books are placed together they will form the complete image! It was produced in Japan, but the creators even offered global shipping for Shenmue fans overseas.
Note: due to popular fan demand, the book sold out quickly after its release.
The book represents an updated edition of content that the artists published previously between 2002 and 2008, with new comics and some color illustrations added.
Note on the illustrations in this post: Mappy has kindly given us permission to reproduce some sample pages from the book in this post, and
Daniel Mann has done a wonderful job of turning these into English scanlations! (We plan to feature more of his sample page scanlations in a future post). Note that the panels read right to left.
Introduction
PRS: To start, could you please introduce yourself?
mappy: My name is mappy. I have been a Shenmue fan since 2001.
Shenmue Fan-made Book “Mankan Zenseki”
PRS: I really enjoyed reading your Shenmue fan-made book! By the way, what does its name “Mankan Zenseki” mean?
mappy: Thank you very much for reading it! They call the more than 100 different types of imperial dishes in Chinese cuisine "Mankan Zenseki". Since this doujinshi was exactly 100 pages long, we decided on this title.
