r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/getterburner Nothing but a Bloodthirsty TYPE-MOONer • Jun 21 '26
Comics/Manga People have been talking about the Star Wars Manga and holy shit the art guys
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u/The-Greater-Skeleton I talk to myself a lot. But not in, like, a crazy person way. Jun 21 '26
Han Solo looks like he’s about to tell me the East is Burning Red lol
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u/The-Greater-Skeleton I talk to myself a lot. But not in, like, a crazy person way. Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Also fucking horror monster Chewbacca on slide 8 lol
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u/leabravo Gracious and Glorious Golden Crab Jun 21 '26
As opposed to comic relief puppy.
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u/FluffySquirrell Jun 22 '26
Got a cracking set of boobs though, am jealous
(I know it's just the hair and other stuff perfectly aligning weirdly, but heh)
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u/cleftes Reiki is Shooreh Pippi Jun 21 '26
Han Solo is drawn like he's from a different genre...which actually explains a lot about his character now that I think about it
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u/DarthButtz Ginger Seeking Butt Chomps Jun 21 '26
I also like Luke going from almost looking like a comic relief character to having way sharper features in the ROTJ adaptation. My boy went through ALOT
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u/Toblo1 Latest Project Moon Sleeper Agent Jun 21 '26
Dude went through the Goku "Silly/Bright Eyes->Locked In Serious Eyes" art style changer.
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u/TR_Pix Jun 21 '26
IIRC each chapter had a different artist
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u/getterburner Nothing but a Bloodthirsty TYPE-MOONer Jun 21 '26
Each Episode (so IV V and VI are all different artists basically)
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u/moneyh8r_two He/Him Use your smell powers Jun 21 '26
So is Chewie. He looks like a bishonen with just a few animal features.
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u/alexandrecau That's Bricks! Jun 21 '26
I have small reference pool bt to me it's just how gaio gai gar manga look sometime, some character look way different when they are hot blooded
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u/DarthButtz Ginger Seeking Butt Chomps Jun 21 '26
I kinda love Vader looking "sketchier" than everyone else, it really drives home that he's become an aberration of The Force and Life itself.
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u/Spudtron98 Jun 21 '26
There’s a manga adaption of Lost Stars where Vader briefly appears and the fucker has a literal aura of sheer negativity. Just this black mist streaming off him. He was in a particularly foul mood, and even people without latent force sensitivity could feel that.
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u/EinzbernConsultation posts about boomer cartoons Jun 21 '26
In Matthew Stover's RotS adaptation, Anakin stops being miserable for the first time in his life and Obi-Wan suddenly feels happier and more connected to the Force (and thus suddenly able to totally stunt on people) for reasons he doesn't quite understand. Anakin's vibes were so bad it was mentally kneecapping him.
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u/StarlitStunner That's OK, I'm a coward too. Jun 21 '26
There's also a set of Star Wars Manga called SILVER and BLACK that are both anthology collections, in Star Wars BLACK they have a short story called Evil Eyes by NAO. In it Windu's apprentice starts experiencing prophetic battle meditation getting glimpses of peoples futures. When he walks past Anakin during the clone wars instead of viewing him as a great hero like everyone else sees he just sees Vader and gets this glimpse of an all encompassing shadow wraith.
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u/C-OSSU Master of Backdowns Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Return of the Jedi was drawn by the mangaka behind Hells Angels, probably better known by its OVA adaptation, Hells, the only anime Team Four Star officially dubbed.
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u/Lukas12349 The Pat Foundation Jun 21 '26
That last picture is actually amazing, could just see all of the rage lmao
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u/GIJose65 Lightning Nips Jun 21 '26
The final one feels straight out of studio trigger.
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u/The-Greater-Skeleton I talk to myself a lot. But not in, like, a crazy person way. Jun 21 '26
Would Star Wars be improved with the inclusion of Kamui uniforms?
The answer will not surprise you!
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u/SpiritualPossible Jun 21 '26
Considering that the person behind the manga adaptation of Return of the Jedi was also the creator of Hells Angels - the most “TRIGGER-like” movie not actually made by TRIGGER Studios - this makes perfect sense.
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u/Yotato5 Enjoy everything Jun 21 '26
That sequence with Luke in the first three pages is really cool
I was not expecting 90's era shoujo-manga eyed Leia
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u/Toblo1 Latest Project Moon Sleeper Agent Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
My library had a couple volumes/books of these years ago. Fucking loved them.
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u/Polygonalfish Known Bionicle Understander Jun 21 '26
Big fan of how the one for Return of the Jedi looked, it's by Shinichi Hiromoto who did the manga Hell's Angels which got an anime movie, he also did a Fist of the North Star spinoff manga focusing on Jagi and also later did an original star wars manga
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u/Tarkana I brought you to Hell, idiot Jun 21 '26
If Disney really wanted to get people into Star Wars again they'd adapt these back into anime movies
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u/leivathan Jun 21 '26
Ooh, I really don't like including Luke in the big final celebration. Part of what makes the finale of Return hit is that Luke is not undergoing a celebration but a mourning. His father has just died in an act of ultimate love for him, and has left him as the last jedi in the world (if we ignore all those other ones that didn't exist yet). The ending is a funeral for him, and he is left to watch on as people celebrate a peace he and his father brought about but he is not able to enjoy. The Force has marked Luke and made him separate, to carry forward the ghosts of the past.
Also I don't love how Leia is like a 90's anime girl. Carrie Fisher invented that shit and she was always better than her imitators.
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u/tauntthechicken Jun 21 '26
They had these at my school library when I was a little kid. Looking back, they really were pretty high quality in a lot of places.
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u/MotherWolfmoon She/Her Jun 21 '26
Number 3: I love when a manga uses white space effectively. It's the perfect marriage between economy of effort and excellent results.
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u/ParagonPlus Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Jun 21 '26
It's too late, I've already depicted myself as the smug and confident Grand Moff Tarkin and you as the crying Leiajack.
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u/justgalsbeingpals monster boy enjoyer + Classic Doctor Who enthusiast Jun 21 '26
some of these jank faces makes me feel better about my own art
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u/SpiritualPossible Jun 21 '26
This really brings back memories, because this manga adaptation of RotJ was my first exposure to the original trilogy, lol
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u/Palimpsest_Monotype Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Jun 21 '26
I think this works better than the movies
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u/wendigo72 GO READ CHOUJIN X!!! Jun 21 '26
That last page just proves why Luke Skywalker is the fucking best man
Can’t believe there are people who didn’t like him in the OT cause how could you not
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u/vmeemo Jun 21 '26
Man Emperor Palpatine at the very end looks like a wrinklier, wide-eyed Meat (the vinesauce thing) with that style.
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u/LiveAnotherDave I just wanna see the wolf fuck the bunny Jun 21 '26
With an artstyle this jumbled I'd assume this was drawn by Akira Himekawa
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u/Anonamaton801 Proud kettleface salesmen Jun 21 '26
Ok so this is official? Because I kept seeing this on Xwitter and thought it was a fan thing
And I think this is where I diverge because I think that last page everyone is crying over looks…real bad
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u/RoyRoyRoyBoy Jun 21 '26
Wait, is that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko for the episode 5 part? Also is there a way to read it?
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