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Oh!great has been using digital applications for illustration since around 2017, and his current manga creation process is mainly digital.
The art work illustrated in Oh! great Art Collection & Blast, a collection released in August 2021, was created using a tablet.
Is it a woman or a machine that's looking at us?
She has flowing red hair. Her eyes are a somber green. Her soft, pink lips shine with gloss. A glimpse of her nipple is visible from under her chiffon scarf. From these features alone, she appears to be a living, breathing woman.
But from her ribs down, her body is a machine of black steel with countless gun barrels that spread out like a skirt in the wind. These guns are not laser cannons. Judging by the hanging ammunition belts, these are guns that shoot bullets. Wisps of reddish smoke can be seen flowing in the wind, indicating that shots may have just been fired.
The figure depicted here is reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe in a well-known scene from The Seven Year Itch. The scene captures Marilyn's white skirt being blown up by the wind from a subway grate. Unlike Marilyn, however, this woman/ machine lifts and spreads wide her own skirt made of guns, inspiring simultaneously both arousal and intimidation.
*Signature on prints (handwritten)
Oh!great made his debut in 1995 with SEPTEMBER KISS, which appeared in Manga Hot Milk (Byakuya-Shobo).
He has serialized Tenjho Tenge and Biorg Trinity (co-created with Otaro Maijo) in Ultra Jump (Shueisha), and Air Gear in Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha). He won the 30th Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category for Air Gear.
He has also designed numerous characters for anime and games. He is currently serializing Bakemonogatari (original story by Ishin Nishio) in Weekly Shonen Magazine.
Never-before-seen color and detail
A collection featuring realistic colors that cannot be produced with the offset printing process used for comics and manga magazines. Available in two sizes, A2 (420 mm x 594 mm) and A1 (594 mm x 841 mm). This collection is printed on the 100% cotton velvet fine art paper used in museum collections.
The digital paintings are readjusted and added to by the artist using the original RGB data.This makes it possible to express colors beyond the realm of CYMY normally used in publication printing.
For the Real Color Collection label, we send these captured and adjusted images to a printer that has undergone color management. The pigmented inks used in Epson inkjet printers are light-resistant and retain their original color even in the kind of light conditions that would cause dye color inks used on the originals to fade.
Not only do the ranges of color exceed those produced by the offset printing methods used for comic covers, but we are also able to achieve levels of light resistance and durability that even exceed those of the original pictures drawn on paper.
The original box includes a blockchain-linked sales certificate
All works are registered to Startrail PORT, NFT management service. Works include a blockchain-linked sales certificate with an affixed NFC tag sticker (letterpress printed by Kazui Press). You can view the information recorded on the NFT by scanning the NFC tag sticker with a smartphone. We will send you your product in an original Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage box.
Work Size A2 (420 mm x 594 mm) or A1 (594 mm x 841 mm)
Paper used Velvet fine art paper
Printing Method Archival Inkjet Print
Package Contents
Main product
Blockchain-linked sales certificate (letterpress printed by Kazui Press, linked with NFC tag sticker)
Matte paper
Special paper to absorb any harmful substances
Instruction manual
Storage case
