In the midst of Stan Lee and Hiroyuki Takei promoting ULTIMO at Comic-Con, how many of you remembered that Stan Lee has another Japan-based project in the works-- namely the BONES anime, Heroman?
Well, Comic Vine's Babs caught the ANN post I missed, announcing that the anime-- which, as far as I know, hasn't even been scheduled yet –is being made into a manga.
The manga begins in Monthly Shounen Gangan's August 12th issue, features a full-color opening page, and will be drawn by Tamon Ohta, who is best known for...um, Heroman! Yes, he seems to be a relatively unknown mangaka, even in Japan.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to being able to hear more about what Heroman is all about-- although Babs has a short plot summary:
“Heroman is the tale of a young American boy who encounters and develops a relationship with what he thinks is a robot toy, but is really a giant robot. With the company of the giant robot, the young boy takes off on many adventures and fights a variety of villains along the way.”
Good fun! Guess I'll be picking up that issue of Gangan...
Edit:
http://www.collectiondx.com/gallery2/gallery/d/84568-4/P7206437.jpg (Jacket Off)
The left arms design (down to segmentation, red streak on side), leg design (way the knee bends, and overall structure) and even "facial" structure (true form) are very similar.
As far as the story, from episode one it makes absolutely no sense, and somehow a lightning bolt turns the broken robot toy into a "hero". Also the "boy" looks more like a girl to me, and his voice actor isn't all too masculine (even a tiny bit) either.
Did I mention the boy's arm turns into a simmonized version of the Nirvash's (final anime version) arm?