Darkish horse revealed Tuesday that it’s releasing a brand new limited-edition “Manga Paint” variant of particular bookends themed round Guts’ sword, the Dragon Slayer, from Kentaro Miura‘S Loopy manga. The brand new bookends are related Darkish horse‘ beforehand launched copies, however these are painted black and white within the type of the unique manga. The bookends value US$199.99 and are solely out there through pre-order from Darkish horse Instantly till August 9 at 8:00 PM ET. Pre-orders are scheduled to ship between December 2024 and February 2025.
Bigshot ToyWorks sculpted the bookends and JW Productions prototyped and painted by hand them. The polyresin bookends are every 19.5 cm excessive by 5.5 cm vast and between 9 and 10 cm lengthy. Every bookend has a hand-numbered base and comes with a certificates of authenticity.
Darkish horse beforehand launched a restricted print of 1,000 coloured bookends primarily based on Guts’ sword in 2020.
Miura died on Could 6, 2021 because of an acute aortic dissection. He was 54. The manga stopped after his dying, however then resumed Younger animal in June 2022. The manga now has the next credit: “Unique work by Kentaro Miuramangadoor Studio Gagabeneath the supervision of Kouji Mori.”
Miura launched the manga in 1989. Darkish horse releases the manga in English. The manga has impressed three tv anime collection, an anime movie trilogy that additionally grew to become a compilation collection, and several other video video games.
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