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+ | Taking place in the year 2025, ''Biomecha'' revolves around Toshio Takeya, a boy who lost his arms in an accident and was given a pair of super-strong mechanical replacements by an android specialist. Unfortunately, he finds himself unable to control his incredible strength and so enrols at the the All-Purpose Cybertechnik Hi-School, an educational institution for youngsters with superpowers in the hopes of finding help with his problem. |
Here he meets Phyllis Fernandez; Jo Flanagan, blind but able to read minds; and Reiko Kikuchi, who has no powers and was only accepted into the school by mistake. Toshio falls in love with Reiko - but can he ever touch her without hurting her? |
Here he meets Phyllis Fernandez; Jo Flanagan, blind but able to read minds; and Reiko Kikuchi, who has no powers and was only accepted into the school by mistake. Toshio falls in love with Reiko - but can he ever touch her without hurting her? |
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Revision as of 14:50, 17 September 2011
Biomecha is an intermittently-published comic by Laura Watton that commbines science fiction with romantic comedy.
Story
Taking place in the year 2025, Biomecha revolves around Toshio Takeya, a boy who lost his arms in an accident and was given a pair of super-strong mechanical replacements by an android specialist. Unfortunately, he finds himself unable to control his incredible strength and so enrols at the the All-Purpose Cybertechnik Hi-School, an educational institution for youngsters with superpowers in the hopes of finding help with his problem.
Here he meets Phyllis Fernandez; Jo Flanagan, blind but able to read minds; and Reiko Kikuchi, who has no powers and was only accepted into the school by mistake. Toshio falls in love with Reiko - but can he ever touch her without hurting her?
Publication history
Laura Watton was fourteen years old when she started work on Biomecha,[1] one of the earliest British comics to be inspired by Japanese manga. The first three issues of Biomecha was self-published under Watton's label Pink Apple Jam in 1995.
Watton went on to create a fourth issue, but disliked it and so started again from scratch. Issue 4 was eventually published in 1998; the following year, however, the rejected version also saw publication, billed as a "party special"and numbered 3½.[2] A special, entitled Biomecha: Colour, was published in 1999.
In 2001 Watton became one of the founding members of Sweatdrop Studios and publication ofBiomecha continued under the Sweatdrop banner. The same year Watton made another special, Biomecha: Thought; issue 5 was published in 2002, issue 6 in 2006,[3] issue 7 in 2009[4] and issue 8 in 2010.[5] Watton also put together a free special called Biomecha - Intro to help attract new readers, and in 2005 compiled a trade paperback-Biomecha Book 1 - that collected issues 1-4 along with 3½ Colour, Thought and various bits of fanart and promotional material. By this time Watton had already decided to end the series with issue 10.
In 2010 Watton left Sweatdrop[6] but is still planning to conclude the series outside of the group.[7]
References
- ↑ Biomecha Book 1, p. 4
- ↑ Biomecha Book 1, p. 181
- ↑ http://www.sweatdrop.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6117
- ↑ http://www.sweatdrop.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11687
- ↑ http://www.sweatdrop.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12887
- ↑ http://www.sweatdrop.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13345
- ↑ http://www.sweatdrop.com/forum/showpost.php?p=204410&postcount=22