robot is a series of books containing the art of various Asian artists. The series was created by Range Murata as a way for upcoming artists to get their work published. Volume 1 was released on the October 21 2004. The series is currently at 8 volumes.
Digital Manga Publishing is responsible for the North American release. The first volume was released August 6th, 2005. Due to recent developments in talks over publishing negotiations breaking down, DMP will not be publishing any future volumes past volume three.
Rights to publish Robot have been picked up by Udon Entertainment which began distribution on December 24 2007 with Volume 4, all subsequent releases will continue on a quarterly basis.
Artists Involved
- Range Murata
- Hiroyuki Asada
- Yoshitoshi ABe
- Mami Itou
- Okama
- Yu Kinutani
- Makoto Kobayashi
- Sabe
- Kei Sanbe
- Sho-u Tajima
- Shin Nagasawa
- Hanaharu Naruco
- Mie Nekoi
- HACCAN
- Ugetsu Hakua
- Shigeki Maishima
- Yasuto Miura
- Miggy
- Suzuhito Yasuda
- YUG
- Imperial Boy
- Dowman Sayman
- Hirotaka Maeda
- Osamu Kobayashi
- Kei Toume
- Kengo Yonekura
- RCO Wada
- Enomoto
- Kouji Ogata
- Yusuke Kozaki
- Yumi Tada
- Fuji Jun
- Hyung-Tae Kim
- Shuzilow Ha
- Neon Vision
- Michio Murakawa
Figures
Recently characters from Robot vol 1 had been made in to a figure collection featuring Groundpass Drive by Range Murata, ...of the Planetarium by Sho-u Tajima, Pez and Hot Strawberry by Hiroyuki Asada, Dragon Fly by Shigekimaeshima, Ebony and Ivory by Suzuhito Yasuda, and Eventyr by Haccan. 1
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