Appearance of the Yellow Dragon!:

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Title: 

•  A Yellow Dragon Appeared! イエロードラゴンがあらわれた!

  • “Yellow Dragon” is written out as English in katakana, which is interesting. You’d think it be something like “kiryuu,” but this is more suggesting a Western-style dragon

Author

• Tamura, Mitsuhisa 田村 光久（たむら みつひさ)

  • Tah-mɯ-rah, Meets[ɯ]-hee-sah

  • I put brackets around that vowel since it’s only barely pronounced in normal speech (whispered vowel)

Characters

• Enji

  • En-gee

• Moegi

  • Mo-egg-ghee

• Kimidori

  • Key-mee-doe-ree

• Shishimaru

  • Shee-shee-mah-rɯ

• Donguri

  • Doan-gɯ-ree

  • Probably a play on “donburi” (rice bowl)...but I’m not sure why.

• Botan

  • Bow-tahn

• Suzu

  • Sɯ-zɯ

• Luccora Radisch

  • Loo-kor-a Raddish…I think

• Gunjo

  • Gɯn-jo

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Manga Details

• Mitsuhisa Tamura

  • Notable people they were an assistant for

    • Yohei Sakai (Dinosaur King)

      • on Touyuki

    • Yuki Miyoshi (Samurai Shodown)

      • on Devil Devil

  • Notable people they had as assistants

    • Masanori Yoshida (Tokyo Kido Elevator Girl)

      • specific series unknown, verified from a since-deleted blog post of Yoshida’s that archive.org hasn’t been able to make readable

    • Chiyo Kenmotsu (Umisaki Lilac)

      • specific series unknown, but she’s also his wife so safe to assume more of a general presence across his work.

  • Other works

    • Bakegyamon (2006-2007, 5 vols, Weekly Shonen Sunday)

      • A bit of a multimedia project, Bakegyamon was concepted by Kazuhiro Fujita of Ushio & Tora fame, had a 51 episode anime from Radix Ace Entertainment, a company that died before it finished coming out, and this manga, which ran all of 5 volumes and petered out. Was licensed by Viz Media in 2008, but good luck getting a copy nowadays. Oh, it’s about monster battling in a backwards universe. 

    • Pocket Monster RéBURST (2011-2012, 8 vols, Weekly Shonen Sunday) written by Jin Kusude

      • The most shonen version of Pokémon EVER, where ‘Burst Warriors’ fuse with Pokémon into hybrid forms. Our spunky, shouty hero Ryouga fuses with Zekrom to fight against those abusing the burst power his Father created. It’s a bit like Digimon Frontier, except somehow even more awesome. 

    • Future Card Buddyfight (2013-2018, 11 vols, CoroCoro Comic)

      • Remember Future Card Buddyfight? The not-Yu-Gi-Oh that lasted all of seven years? The one where the company that owned it sued the creator because he openly criticised the company and talked about his work on the product? Had about six anime series? No, I don’t, either. This is the manga of that, one of the first branches of a short-lived multimedia empire. 

    • Future Card: Shin Buddyfight (2018-2020, 4 vols, CoroCoro Comic/Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic)

      • More of the above, a direct sequel that transferred magazines for whatever reason during its run. 

    • Urban Myth Sensei Uramon (2022-2023, 2 vols, Weekly CoroCoro Comic)

      • A rare original work for Tamura. Konoura Mondo (Uramon for short) is a strangely chibi elementary school teacher who must protect the students under his care from spooky urban myths using the mysterious keyhole in his hand. Ran on a web platform with weekly in the name, but did not run weekly. Not confusing at all. 

• Publishing

  • Magazine (schedule):

    • Shonen Sunday Super (monthly)

  • Run Dates: 

    • July 2009 to June 2010

  • Series it replaced

• Mirai no Football by Eco Yamatoya (1 vol, flop)

• Series that replaced it

  • Akumugari by Arimasa Oosawa and Masato Fujisaki (1 vol, flop)

• Series that started at the same time as it

  • Mushibugyo by Hiroshi Fukuda (3 vols, kind of a flop, MAYBE, except it got rebooted into a series that lasted 32 volumes and got an anime)

  • Mahou no Iroha by Kazurou Inoue (3 vols, flop)

• Chapters/Volumes: 

  • 12 chapters/2 volumes

Manga Itself / Misc thoughts

• I got nothing. The series is puddle deep, and I don’t mean that as a criticism. Heart on its sleeve.