©2013 YOSHITOH ASARI/TOKUMA SHOTEN

17th Manga Division Jury Selections

ASTEROID Miners

ASARI Yoshitoh [Japan]

Outline

The author, whose educational scientific manga Manga Science has been running for 25 years, utilized the wealth of his knowledge about space and rockets in this work to convey with black humor a future space development which may possibly become reality. Stories of the joy and sorrow of human beings living in space in an omnibus form, including stories about the pros and cons of life in a lunar base and a dictator who aims to develop the world’s first space fighter plane.