Japanese: イートマン
English: Eat-Man
Type: Manga
Volumes: 19
Chapters: 101
Status: Completed
Published: Jan 27, 1996 to Jul 26, 2003
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen, Super Power
Mangaka: Yoshitomi Akihito (Story & Art)
Serialization: Dengeki Comic Gao!
Synopsis: Bolt Crank travels the world as the World's Greatest Mercenary. He got that moniker due to his skills, as well as his ability to eat anything, and then reproduce it in his right hand. During his adventures he meets new friends, as well as his rival Hard. But, his mysterious past with a man named Leon Field comes into play later on when Shadow, a man who can control machines and calls himself Bolt Crank, and Stella, a woman who wants to mechanize every human on the planet, has Bolt going back to an old, unfinished mission he left behind long ago.
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| Eat-Man: The Main Dish vol 1 cover |
Related Manga
Sequel: Eat-Man: The Main Dish
Adaptation: Eat-Man '98, Eat-Man
Groups Scanlating
CDMC
Heidi-Scans
Manga-Sketchbook
Viz
others
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Licensed in English
Viz Media (2 Volumes - Dropped)
Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates
Side notes: It took me lil time to notice that the manga is to be read from left to right like western comics.XDD After I got that the text started to make more sense than at the start. The art is on good level but it suffers from scanlation (I read the story in scanlation form). But I can't shake the feeling of Star Wars from my shoulders as I look at it.^-^ The story as it is could have worked as official translation too but people probably never really got into the series or liked the way it was mirrored for English readers. Or it could be the poor balance of the story in the beginning. Or the episodic story form... there are too many possibilities.^-^ I still think it reserves it's position as a good manga to read though so adjustment it may need from the reader.
Main character
Bolt Crank (ボルト・クランク)
Bolt Crank is the World's Greatest Mercenary, and with good reason. He is considering himself as an explorer and nothing more. He also has the ability to eat any object and, when needed, reproduce it from his right hand. Also in the world of Eat-Man is the Alvion, a flying ship that flies even though it is a destroyed wreck. The ship floats in the sky, and is always where Bolt is.
In the middle of manga's story was revealed that he can reproduce object with any part of his body.
Source: MAL
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