I think Masakazu Katsura draws the prettiest manga girls. This page is going to be a gallery of pictures he has done. This is Nobuko, one of his characters from the Video Girl Ai series.
What about these two other video girls created by Masakazu Katsura? These pictures come from the Video Girl Ai novel.
After Amano Ai came Video Girl Len. I undersand that Youta makes a guest appearance in the first adventure.
Here is a montage of his characters from Vol. 2 of the Masakazu Katsura collection from Jump Super Ace. At the bottom are characters from his first Video Girl story: Haruno, Munehiro and Hiroko.
Here is a Jump manga cover showing his current series called I''s (keep in mind I don't know Japanese). The three main characters are students who all have names that start with "I" - Itsuki, Ichitaka and Iori.
Doesn't this painting of Iori look great?
I have three Aizu manga books and was asking if anyone know where English translations can be found on the Net? Here are some replies.
If you still don't have found where to find aizu translations, you may go to the baka.baka.net site(http://Baka.Baka.net/anime/aizu), where many translations and other links to other aizu sites are available... but i suppose that you have already found it...
Thanks for the suggestion Julien. I will check out baka.baka.net.
Hello :-))))) i'm french, and i'm fan of Katsura. But i have a problem because i find translation of I''S in english, but i have difficultes to understand the story. If you know where i can find translation of I''S in french please tell me. Thanks to rewrite me.
Bye. ;-))))))
stephanebelkaci@lemel.fr
I have no clue on this one. Can anyone help this fellow find French I"s translations?
Hello i've visited your page and i see that yu want the i"s tarnslations, i'm allmost seure you allready heve them but i'll send you anyway.
ichitaka@hotmail.com
BYE
Thanks to Joan Vives Sanfeliu for sending me I"s translations. I got a few that I didn't have before.
Hi George,
I'm not sure if you've checked out my page on Masakazu Katsura, but I'm quickly amassing an impressive collection of english translations for I"s, if you're interested. I'm not sure if you have any translations for chapters that we haven't gotten to yet, but if you do, I'd really appreciate it if you could donate them to the group.
Otherwise, there's new Katsura pin-ups every week (EVERY week, seriously) and all kinds of info and links to other Katsura pages. I hope you like it.
The Masakazu Katsura Shrine http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/2505
Jim Zubkavich
This person Jim has many chapters from I"s. Convenient!
Shy girl Aimee inherits a magical eye-shadow compact which allows her to transform into the mischievous adventurer Shadow Lady. I have a Chinese manga featuring this character which I can't read. The stories were collected into three manga books.
hello my name is hugo , i'm french
_i want you to talk about the exeactly history of shadow lady:
she's a professional robbers who never steal anythings. she will fall in love of a mysterious man who has saved her life a night in the street.his name is bright. unfortunatly for her this man is a policeman who has promised to catch shadow lady . here is for the story of shadow lady.
excuse me for my english which is not very good .
good bye
Hugo
Thanks for the information Hugo.
The magic compact has eye shadow in different colours. Each colour causes a different transformation.
I bought the first Shadow Lady book and was trying to find English translations before buying the rest of the series. I got the following response.
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:02:07 -0400
From: Michelle Van Severen
Subject: May I help you?
To: hong
Hi! I'm Franck Van Severen, I'm french, I'm 19 and I was on your site a few minutes ago. I read that you were searching the translations of shadow lady? It was translated in french, so I've got it. If you want, I can try to translate it a little, although my english is not perfect at all, as you can read. Let's have a try, take your first volume and read.
P.1
Gray city.
By conserving the buildings from the past, the rich people have given this
wonderful city the luxurious appearance which they needed to keep on loving
living there...
But the growing inequalities between the rich and the poor peoples have
created a growth of crime, so that the city has now 2 different faces, the
day and the night.
this is the story of a young girl living here, in gray city.
P.2
-And... I would also like 3 oranges, please.
-How cute you are, Aimi, I give you one more!
-Ah! Uh... thank you very much.
P.3
-Well, do you have a boyfriend now?
-Hey? Uh... no, not yet...
-A cute girl like you? What about trying to make up a little? You are
already very cute, you wouldn' t need much more to interrest the guys.
-Do... Do you think so?
-Oh! How rich you are! Are you going to buy a house today?
-But... what is all this money???
-P.4
-Well, thank you very much! Good bye.
- He! he! You're welcome!
-What a shame! He probably thought I'm crazy to go out with so much money!
-Aimi are you all right?
-Ouch!
-Well...
P.5
-It's a real treasure! It's not very safe to go out with so much money
with you while Shadow lady is in town, I' ll come with you at your house.
-It's nothing, nevermind, it' s allright...
-If she does that way, she'll never find a boyfriend!!
-Here is our heroine, Aimi Komori. She's a shy girl who is just 17 years
old.
P.6
-Demota! Are you the one who has put al this money in my wallet?
-You could have needed it!
-Because of you, I almost died of shame!
-Yes, but thanks to me, you have met this guy! Have you given him a
rendez-vous?
-he is not really called Demota, it's a nickname given by Aimi
-WHAT? Why should have I done that? We just bumped together, it's all!
you don't promise that to someone you just met!
-FFF...Aimi is so serious that it's boring (Translator note: Demota speaks
with a strange accent that i can' t translate, imagine he would say "Aimi
iss sso sseriouss ..").
-Aimi, I think it's time.
P.7
-Oh? It's already time to go? Well, no time to lose, nights are short!
-"You're already cute, you wouldn't need much more to interest guys"
-To interest... guys...
P.8
Apparently, it's just normal eye shadow...
when the night is coming over Grey city, the young girl makes up
It's her secret. She is the only one who knows it and she has never told
about it to anyone. Each night, this young girl becomes...
P.9
-Well, it's my turn.
-And here is Demo as he really looks like
P.10
-Let's go, Demo!!!
-yeah, time to go!
Thanks for the translation Franck!
Dark Horse Comics started publishing Shadow Lady in English as of October 1998. This is great! On the other hand that means people are removing the English translations from the Net. Oh well.
By the way, I never noticed the play on words "eye shadow" and "shadow lady" until I saw their advertisement.
This is Karin Aoi, a character from the series DNA2. Karin is a DNA operator from the future and her mission is to prevent the existence of the Mega-playboy. Mega-playboy is the name given to an individual whose DNA causes a severe over-population problem in the future.
This was Katsura's series just before Video Girl Ai. I understand you can get a French version of Wing Man in Quebec from Protoculture Addicts.
I'm searching M from Katsura but I don't find any Website talking from the series. In fact, I search the scans of this story (I know that somebody have already done that ... but I've lost his address) ...
Please, help me
Xav
I've never heard of this series "M". Does anyone have information for this person?
Have any of you heard of this person? He was griping about me stealing his pictures but anyone who has been visiting my pages can figure out that is not true.
That is about all I have about Katsura. MKN the Masakazu Katsura Network is now out of action.
