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fans may be familiar with ‘Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad,’ Harold Sakuishi’s long running series about a rock band. Prior to ‘Beck’s’ start in 1999, however, Sakuishi had already put out three separate series, their earlier styles almost unidentifiable to his more modern hit. In 1988, his debut work ‘Gorillaman’ began in Young Magazine, during a period when delinquent youth, or “yanki,” manga were a major subgenre within boys’ and mens’ anthologies. like many yanki manga, it never received a TV anime adaption.Gorillaman did have an OVA. The series opens with a tough-looking, suit-clad man walking down the street, when suddenly a bucket of water falls from a construction site and hits the passerby flat on the head. As workmen rush to his side, we catch our first close look at the protagonist,…
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