Sometimes a character designer can successfully make the leap from animation to manga. Today is an example of a beloved old-school designer whose leap was not quite so graceful.
MARIONETTE GENERATION (Marionetto Jenereshon), by Haruhiko Mikimoto. First published in 1989 and first published in North America in 2001.
PLOT:
Izumi Morino is a down-on-his-luck artist who gets the shock of his life when a walking, talking rag doll shows up in his bed. His wanna-be assistant/teen fangirl Kinoko is jealous from the start, but neither they nor the doll herself knows how she got there or how she came to be. The answer may lie with the aggressive blonde doll-woman who keeps following them, but can Izumi and Kinoko get past their own personal problems long enough to notice?
