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Regarding the spreads, it was almost the first time to work on such a magazine, but I thought that I had to make it competitive with the other pages….Mori-san’s (Yoshihiro Moritou’s) manga was also extremely detailed. At that time, I really received a lot of postcards. Within Microman Club, we also selected the reader-submitted postcards. “Full color promo spreads as well as the 'Microman Club” segments. Thank you very much for your hard work! To what extent did you design the article page? I was in my twenties at the time, so I think I managed to get through at a young age. I wasn’t just designing and painting, I was doing it all including photos for the catalogs, so I was so busy that I could hardly go home (laughs). So, to put it in an extreme way, it was a time when I was doing everything related to Microman. This would have been right when Microman Command started in 1977.

“Until then, the main packages, catalogs, and pamphlets were done by Sugawara (lead designer / current president of Design Mate at the time), and I was in charge of sketchwork, but I decided to take over everything including the graphics I was doing since then.

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In 1977, when the article serialization began in TV Magazine, what kind of position did Mr. I remember receiving an order like 'We want to make the magazine a little more powerful …” In other words, the design of the look and feel including sketches of the illustrations drawn by Masami Watanabe. 'The editorial department asked me to lay out the illustrations.

I think that would have been my first point of contact with the editorial department of TV Magazine. After that, development of Microman articles started with TV Magazine, and I was in charge of the layout of those pages. In addition to 'Microman”, I was in charge of some of the advertisements for “MagneRobo Steel Jeeg” and so on. “In terms of Takara’s work, I have been sketching products since the launch, so I believe design for the product advertisement page was my first relationship. Higuchi (with Design Mate) and “TV Magazine”? (Editor)Ĭan you tell us the original point of contact between Mr. Higuchi provided us with this new illustration of the concept. It is said that the development was canceled due to problems with strength, even though a prototype was made. Each part is connected by five-part jointed arms, and each part can move flexibly. And with a new perspective on the urban jungle, Glob Games aims to invest players in quite the dynamic adventure.■ Image sketch of Microman Arm System (working name) by Mr. Players should also expect to embark on unusual traversal escapades, like taking flight on a butterfly.

To help the tiny protagonist, players will face-off against large foes such as ants and rats.

Of course, such a goal won’t be without its fair share of challenges. Now he must do everything he can to embiggen, as DC’s the Atom would say. The result is his falling into an “ experimental reduction capsule,” which ultimately leads to his shrinking to the size of an insect. MicroMan stars a laboratory worker, who becomes victim to an unfortunate accident. According to Game Glob’s Vice President, Karol Marcinkowski, “ MicroMan is obviously inspired by these works, among others, but at the same time it will be something quite new and unique in the gaming industry.” Meanwhile, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Ant-Man’s adventures serve as more modern takes on the concept. Jonathan Swift’s classic Gulliver’s Travels counts as one early example. MicroMan takes inspiration from other tales wherein a protagonist finds themselves among much larger beings.

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