Shinichi Hiromoto

Shin-Ichi Hiromoto’s adaption of George Lucas & Richard Marquand’s 1983 film, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi faithfully adapts the plot of the film. This fourth and final volume begins with Chewbacca commandeering an AT-ST while Luke Skywalker duels Darth Vader on the Death Star and ends with the film’s conclusion. Hiromoto uses the images to tell the story whenever possible, featuring dynamic art with onomatopoeia and minimal dialogue. As Dark Horse Comics issued these for American Audiences in the late-1990s, they reprinted them to follow the left-to-right reading style of English rather than the right-to-left of Japanese, mirroring the images so that caption bubbles would appear in the correct order for English readers. At times, this means that the scenes in Hiromoto’s art appear reversed as compared to the original film depiction. It that way, Dark Horse Comics’ publication of Hiromoto’s work represents an interesting era in English translations of manga for the U.S. market. More importantly, however, Hiromoto uses the conventions of manga to make the story his own. A good read for both Star Wars and manga fans.… (plus d'informations)

Shin-Ichi Hiromoto’s adaption of George Lucas & Richard Marquand’s 1983 film, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi faithfully adapts the plot of the film. This second volume begins with Luke Skywalker leading the breakout from Jabba’s sail barge at the Sarlacc Pit and ends with the arrival of Han Solo’s strike force on the forest moon of Endor. Hiromoto uses the images to tell the story whenever possible, featuring dynamic art with onomatopoeia and minimal dialogue. As Dark Horse Comics issued these for American Audiences in the late-1990s, they reprinted them to follow the left-to-right reading style of English rather than the right-to-left of Japanese, mirroring the images so that caption bubbles would appear in the correct order for English readers. At times, this means that the scenes in Hiromoto’s art appear reversed as compared to the original film depiction. It that way, Dark Horse Comics’ publication of Hiromoto’s work represents an interesting era in English translations of manga for the U.S. market. More importantly, however, Hiromoto uses the conventions of manga to make the story his own. A good read for both Star Wars and manga fans.… (plus d'informations)

Quick impression: A very good manga adaption of the original Star Wars films, this specific volume covers the last segment of Return of the Jedi. Fans of Star Wars will likely enjoy this and the rest of the series (I've read other parts of it but never been able to find a full set). Very faithful to the original source. If you like manga, you will probably like this too.

On a side note, I think if Dark Horse (or anyone else) picked this up again and put it in an omnibus edition, they'd get some sales again.

Full review in my blog later.… (plus d'informations)

In this book Luke Skywalker turns him self over to the dark side, because he feels that his father, Darth Vader, has good in him. It seems not to be true. Darth Vader gives him to his boss. Darth Vader gets his hand chopped off and the boss laughs, because this way you turn into a bad guy. It is not true. Luke is not going to give him to the dark side. Then the boss begins to zap him with electric and Darth Vader picks him up. He throws his boss down a hole and the boss explodes. Then his father sits down and Luke tells him that there was good in him. His father asks if he can put his mask off but Luke says :"Then you will die!" "I know." Darth Vader says. Luke does as his father said because his father wanted to see him with his own eyes. Darth Vader dies and Leia is happy that he returned. This is the best book ever!… (plus d'informations)