![]() ![]() The family bristled at the idea that their son would be a common comic artist. Aero Kurokuma needed to remind himself that his assistant was indeed, at nineteen, still much younger than he was.Īero’s mind drifted to the time his traditional family had turned their backs on him, their eldest son, when he’d told them he wanted to become a manga artist instead of taking the reins of the family business. Maybe it was the lifelong passion that he and the boy shared. How this blond, blue-eyed, gangly American came to work for him as an assistant was still as mysterious as why he had allowed the situation to happen. ![]() What Aero Kurokuma didn’t quite understand was his only assistant, a gaijin, sitting on the floor hunched over the two-page spread of the manga’s future story line. In some sense Aero lived through the character. Ecos was the name of the main character of the shonen manga who made the ordinary extraordinary and had been doing so for the last sixteen years. These sounds soothed Akiyoshi Aero Kurokuma. ![]() The hand gliding over the page to create his wildly popular weekly manga, Ecos. ![]()
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