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- “Mega Man”
- A company called “Dreamwave Productions” was making these. These comics are original stories involving the original series and a touch of the X series of the games. There weren’t many of them because the company producing them evidently went belly-up shortly after the series started.
- “Mega Man NT Warrior”
- Viz has picked up the license to translate the Japanese EXE manga, listed below. They seem to have preserved the manga storyline, but they use the phrase and name changes that the Mega Man NT Warrior TV show had to make. This makes them resemble the cartoons a bit more than the games. But then they always did, since, like the anime, the manga pay more attention to some of the plot devices in the games than the games themselves do. It’s interesting to note that Viz preserved the right-to-left reading order of the manga, which isn’t something that bothers me, but it does surprise me a little. Needless to say, if you pick one of these up, turn it over and read it from the other side. You’ll get used to it quickly.
- “Captain N — The Game Master”
- Although there are comics based off the Captain N cartoon shows, Mega Man is not in the Captain N comics. I mention them here only to make this point. Apparently the company who published the comics could not or would not arrange for royalties to use trademarked characters from any other company but Nintendo. Thus, characters from third party games such as Mega Man and Simon Belmont are out.
- Manga
- In Japan, comics are referred to as “manga” and they are often more along the lines of graphic novels. Most manga are black and white paperback issues and volumes. Mega Man has a small collection of manga written with their own style and flair. They seem to have been made by third parties with permission from Capcom, meaning they don’t always exactly follow the games.
Here’s a list of manga that I know of:
- Rockman (1)
- Rockman 2 (“Dr. Wily’s Scheme”)
- Rockman 4
- Rockman 5 vol. 1-2
- Rockman 6 vol. 1-3
- Rockman 7 vol. 1-3
- Rockman 8 vol. 1-2 (vol. 3 planned, but never published)
- Rockman & Forte vol. 1-2
- Blues’ Resurrection
An original story chronicling a clone of Blues (Proto Man).
- Irregular Hunter Rockman X vol. 1-2
- Rockman X vol. 1-3
There are evidently two adaptations of the first X game.
- Rockman X2 vol. 1-3
- Rockman X3 vol. 1-4
- Rockman X4 vol. 1-2 (more planned, but never published)
- Rockman X5 vol. 1-2 (Chinese only I believe)
- Battle Network Rockman EXE vol. 1-13?
The EXE manga seems to pay more attention to the plot devices of the games than the games themselves do.
- Rockman Zero vol. 1-?
- Rockman ZX vol. 1-?
- Ryusei no Rockman vol. 1-?
- Rockman World 1 & 2 (Game Boy adaptation)
This manga combines the first two Game Boy games into one story.
- Rockman World 3 (Game Boy adaptation)
- Rockman Megamix
A collection of original stories which tend to be on the wacky side.
- Rockman Megamix 2
- Rockman Remix (below)
This is similar to the Megamix.
Thanks to Maru and paperacechase for additions to this list.
The following scans are from the Rockman Remix. Note that the text is in Chinese, not Japanese. (Yes, manga are quite frequently translated to Chinese.) Also, the pages are read from right to left.
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This one is a bit cut off, but it should give you a basic idea of the drawing styles.
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Ice Man booting Dr. Wily, along with Roll and Elec Man. Did I mention that in the manga all of the Mega Man (1) robots are on Mega Man’s side?
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Conversations are interrupted by the Yellow Devil, who comes in, scares everybody, and promptly leaves. (“Thank you for that distraction.”)
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Cute SD pict of the Yellow Devil scaring the living daylights out of Mega Man and Shadow Man.
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X on a hoverbike in the X portion of Remix (no, the two series are kept separate and do not cross).
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Zero in Remix.
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