Post by SaoriShun on Oct 1, 2023 14:54:32 GMT
I had purchased a print copy of the May 2007 issue of Vogue Nippon (now known as Vogue Japan) and was excitedly reading it when I found an article about John Galliano and his spring couture 2007 collection for Christian Dior that contained a few pictures of the collection's 'Japan research diary,' which resembles a cross between a mood board and a multi-page brochure. Even though this article was published in 2007 the actual research diary was created from October to November 2006.
Among the pictures of this mysterious research diary I found this image featuring this equally mysterious manga that I am dying to have identified:
The image has multiple other photos obscuring the manga panels so I made an edit in GIMP where I made everything covering the manga panels transparent:
I posted this image on the Lost Media Wiki forums, where doubledis replied to me and posted this image where they attempted to make a mock-up of what the original panels could have looked like:
I then posted all three images to the AnimeSuki forums, where a user called anime2004 claimed that the unidentified manga could be a series called Remote written by Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Tetsuya Koshiba. After looking up Remote I was shocked how much the character designs in my Vogue Nippon clipping, particuarly the female-looking character at the upper right, resemble those from Remote.
Luckily for me, I found scans of all ten volumes of Remote on the texts section of archive.org, so I went through every page looking for these panels. Unfortunately, these particular panels did not appear in Remote. They wouldn't be from Remote anyway because if you check the images from this research diary the manga panels have Japanese text instead of English, which means that John Galliano must have taken those panels from a manga magazine published in Japan.
Furthermore, Galliano created the Akihabara page of the research diary (the page where those manga panels appeared) in October 2006, so the manga whose panels he used was published in a magazine issue published around October 2006. Remote was released in Japan from 2002 to 2004, which means that the manga panels are from a different manga.
However, the art style of the unidentified manga looks awfully a lot like Tetsuya Koshiba's, and he did have another manga of his, Mankai Otome (aka Mankai Shoujo, aka 満開少女 in kanji) published in July 2006 in issue 19 of Weekly Young Magazine. Unfortunately there are no scans of Mankai Otome/Mankai Shoujo online, only a preview of the first 20 pages of that manga (you have to buy the manga to read the rest).
So could someone please find the source of these panels? Are they from Mankai Otome/Mankai Shoujo, or a different manga? I've been searching for the origin of these panels for months and I can't wait much longer.
Among the pictures of this mysterious research diary I found this image featuring this equally mysterious manga that I am dying to have identified:
The image has multiple other photos obscuring the manga panels so I made an edit in GIMP where I made everything covering the manga panels transparent:
I posted this image on the Lost Media Wiki forums, where doubledis replied to me and posted this image where they attempted to make a mock-up of what the original panels could have looked like:
I then posted all three images to the AnimeSuki forums, where a user called anime2004 claimed that the unidentified manga could be a series called Remote written by Seimaru Amagi and illustrated by Tetsuya Koshiba. After looking up Remote I was shocked how much the character designs in my Vogue Nippon clipping, particuarly the female-looking character at the upper right, resemble those from Remote.
Luckily for me, I found scans of all ten volumes of Remote on the texts section of archive.org, so I went through every page looking for these panels. Unfortunately, these particular panels did not appear in Remote. They wouldn't be from Remote anyway because if you check the images from this research diary the manga panels have Japanese text instead of English, which means that John Galliano must have taken those panels from a manga magazine published in Japan.
Furthermore, Galliano created the Akihabara page of the research diary (the page where those manga panels appeared) in October 2006, so the manga whose panels he used was published in a magazine issue published around October 2006. Remote was released in Japan from 2002 to 2004, which means that the manga panels are from a different manga.
However, the art style of the unidentified manga looks awfully a lot like Tetsuya Koshiba's, and he did have another manga of his, Mankai Otome (aka Mankai Shoujo, aka 満開少女 in kanji) published in July 2006 in issue 19 of Weekly Young Magazine. Unfortunately there are no scans of Mankai Otome/Mankai Shoujo online, only a preview of the first 20 pages of that manga (you have to buy the manga to read the rest).
So could someone please find the source of these panels? Are they from Mankai Otome/Mankai Shoujo, or a different manga? I've been searching for the origin of these panels for months and I can't wait much longer.
