One of my purchases made while in Hyogo, this time from M. This doujin is by Maboroshi Chouji (幻超二), a talented mangaka who's works include Gorgon (ゴルゴーン_) and Border Vigilantes (辺境自警隊). Maboroshi also worked alongside Hiroshi Yamamoto on the Sword World RPG series.

However, though during the late 1990s, Chouji began to suffer from the effects of Sarcoidosis, a neurological disease which led to him having full retinal detachment in his left eye while his right eye also suffers from visual impairment. With that in mind, he has unfortunately created very few works and in 2006 fully retired from publishing manga as well as participating in Comiket. M knew/knows Maboroshi and parted with this copy so long as I would document/preserve his old friend's work, of which I was glad to do.

This is a parody manga based on the OYW in 0079 and has a unique narrative structure as a one shot. I am unsure if this was continued as each volume under Maboroshi's pseudonym differs. This doujin hails from August 4th of 1996 while the initial byline/artist's note was written on July 25th of 1996. I had to debind this copy, which wasn't easy, but was required to get proper documentation. Maboroshi's artwork is absolutely phenomenal and it's quite a shame that such a talented man was afflicted with an incurable disease.

MEGA archive - https://mega.nz/folder/f5VHiR7B#5EIV1Q8JfFH4MM99liZ-DA
Internet archive - https://archive.org/details/maboroshi_chouji_genchou_bl_vol_8_mole_killer_1996
Website backup - https://retroanimechris.blogspot.com/2024/07/camel-filters-maboroshi-chouji.html

No deep dive on this one, I simply know what I do know about Maboroshi's work and did this by M's personal request.
Questions and comments of other varieties can be answered quicker if you reach out to me @retroanimechris on x/twitter or send an email to me at adoggoart@gmail.com. I am always scanning things in, though I'm finishing up my queue now.

Thanks for the upload, I was interested in buying these but never got to it

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Of course, you're welcome! The artwork alone is worth it I find, thanks for visiting!

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Amazing stuff thank you so much for you efforts. This is the kind of stuff that needs to be passed around to be preserved.

Maboroshi Chouji amazing artist so talented I use to have the english print of Gorgon from the 90s- by Venus comics. Just now I learnt about the health issues Maboroshi sensei had. Very sad to know his career was cut short because of bad health.

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I'm digging this artstyle it's a shame he lost his eyesight.

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