(Date Posted:04/23/2007 6:44 AM)
When I found out about some of these sci-fi manga...it kind of seemed to me that they seemed to be from the late 70's early 80's when all that psychic stuff was really popular in manga (titles that stick out in my mind are Choujin Locke, Justy, Kana Hoshino's stuff ...I'm drawing a blank here, but there was a lot- really, there was. It was all "esper this" and "esper that"...or so it seemed to me)...then it died down a little and then by the time I was old enough to read manga (I like reading old ones which is how I know about them) stuff like Moon Child and Please Save our Earth was out. Actually, Moon Child (another race from the moon mingling among humans with a "be gentle to the earth" message) is sci-fi I think? So is Kaguya Hime (big theme was cloning and ethics)...actually most of Reiko Shimizu's works are sci-fi. Moon Child is available in English it seems  It was on Amazon.com. I really like "Ohimesama no Sekai Chizu" (The Princess's World Map), but it seems they don't have an English version of that one. Hmm...nothing else I can think of has been put out in English :P Sorry I can't think of anything else. I'm more of a romance-fantasy person than sci-fi Oh, some of IC in a Sunflower by Mitsukazu Mihara is sci-fi...it's a bunch of short stories and it's in English. There was one about cloning, the effects of an AIDS vaccine....what feelings are (maybe "feelings" are possible for robots, but impossible for humans), etc. It was actually a really fascinating manga. I hadn't read one quite like that before. It was pretty thought provoking. Haha, btw the "Editorial Review" on Amazon talks about a COMPLETELY different book... I hope that helps you some?
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