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	Kia Asamiya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kia Asamiya (麻宮騎亜 Asamiya Kia) is the pen-name of a popular Japanese manga artist whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences (1990s).
		He is well-known for using influences from American comics, television, and movies in his work, and describes himself as a big fan of both Batman and Star Wars.
		Prior to becoming a manga artist, Asamiya worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later Godzilla movies (1980s).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kia_Asamiya (424 words)

	Mandisa's Everything Page -- Shades of Nemesis: Who the heck is Kia Asamiya?
		At the root of all the confusion is Kia Asamiya himself.
		Kia Asamiya's method of self-promotion through enigma isn't truly unique (J.D. Salinger, American author of "Catcher in the Rye" has been doing that for years, for example) but it keeps the audience intrigued anyway, much like his manga.
		Asamiya put out the story that he made "Corrector Yui" to suit his daughter's tastes, and followed with "Ebiru-kun" (aka.
	www.flowerstorm.net /disa/Site-Nemesis/nem-asamiya.html (711 words)

	Batman, Child of Dreams, Kia Asamiya
		Asamiya has drawn what may be the definitive version of the Batmobile (popular enough to be sold separately as a scale model by DC) and is a breathtaking master of the splash page.
		He sticks to the traditional interpretation of a double-sided hero whose mask is his personal metaphor for existence, but, in Asamiya's take, the character of Wayne is as engaging as Batman, who tends to overshadow Wayne in the hands of most writers of the series.
		Asamiya's Batman is an old-fashioned romantic hero in every sense of the word, and is more of a sleuth here than the sometimes grim, hardened warrior so popular with those who write for the Batman series.
	www.rambles.net /asamiya_bcod03.html (886 words)

	New Kia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		:''For the Korean automobile manufacturer, see Kia Motors.'' KIA is a three-letter abbreviation for killed in action, a term often used in military histories and narratives to count the number of casualties in a conflict, or the status of an individual.
		Kia was founded in 1944, and later produced Mazda models under licence, including the Pride (based on the 121) and Avella, which were sold in North America and Australasia as the Ford Festiva and Ford Aspire.
		Kia automobiles are generally considerably less expensive than those of their competitors, and all come with ten-year powertrain warranties to further cater to value-conscious buyers.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/60/new-kia.html (695 words)

	CJAS Newsletter Archives -- Asamiya-sensei: A Mild Profile of the Creator of Nadesico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kia Asamiya was born in Tokyo in 1963, but nobody in the manga/anime world would know about it if it wasn't for a favor he did for a friend in his early years.
		As Asamiya recalls, "It was a fluke that I became a manga artist.
		This March, Kia Asamiya is scheduled to be one of the guests of honor at Animazement 2000, the anime convention held in Raleigh, NC.
	www.cjas.org /~echen/articles/spring00/02_05b.html (541 words)

	Public Interview with Asamiya Kia
		Probably one of the best-kept secrets at this year's Comic Con was the appearance of the reclusive manga artists Asamiya Kia.
		I didn't know he was even going to be there until I wandered by the Viz booth and saw the sign announcing his panel and autograph session.
		Asamiya is rather protective of his private life, no pictures of him have ever been published in Japan.
	www.ex.org /3.6/11-feature_asamiya1.html (580 words)

	Comic creator: Kia Asamiya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kia Asamiya was born in the Tokyo in the Sumida district.
		Asamiya also did work for George Lucas in a manga adaptation of 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace'.
		Kia Asamiya is also known as Kikuchi Michitaka, a well-known animator and character designer.
	www.lambiek.net /asamiya_kia.htm (134 words)

	(Irrepressable) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Asamiya never actively went out of his way to become a manga artist and when asked once whether becomming a manga artist was his primary job goal he said it happened by chance.
		The work was seen by a Kadokawa editor and Asamiya was on the road to success.
		During Asamiya's second public appearance he was asked a number of questions about Steam Detectives.
	novacaine.net /steam/asamiya.html (469 words)

	Book of the Week (4/19/99): Kia Asamiya: Steam Detectives, vol. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is in some ways nothing more frustrating than someone with gobs of talent and the lack of discipline to police it properly.
		Kia Asamiya serves nicely as an example -- he's an incredibly talented and visionary artist, and he has a knack for creating absorbing characters, but why does he use the former as a backdrop to march the latter into brick walls?
		Steam Detectives is one of Asamiya's best works -- meaning that he shoots himself in the foot only rarely.
	www.thegline.com /book-of-the-week/1999/04-19-1999.htm (338 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Batman Child of Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Written and illustrated by Manga legend Kia Asamiya, this 338-page original graphic novel finds the Dark Knight Detective facing a crime spree in Gotham City that's seemingly perpetrated by some of his greatest foes, yet all of them are actually locked up safely in Arkham Asylum.
		Asamiya is an exceptional illustrator, and his rendering of Batman and the tools of his trade, from the Batmobile to the Batarangs, are breathtaking, combining majesty and mystery, as any good rendering of Batman should.
		Asamiya also makes skilled use of dialogue - he relies very little on the narrator's voice because he is able to convey a remarkable amount of background information and character-development through his use of dialogue and a novelist's sense of timing when he switches viewpoint characters.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1840236264 (1527 words)

	Anime on DVD
		Kia Asamiya's Dark Angel is one of the most difficult series of his to follow.
		The art is clearly Kia Asamiya's, a highly individual style full of sharp, angular eyes, tons of screentone, and dynamic compositions.
		The heavy use of screentones that is a hallmark of Asamiya's style is marred by excessive moiring and patterning.
	www.animeondvd.com /reviews2/manga/manga.php?manga_view=199 (585 words)

	Anime Central - Kia Asamiya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kia Asamiya never seems to draw the same story twice.
		It was hard to tell if Asamiya was joking when he said that he liked the lead character in Steam Detectives better than his other characters because he had only one eye and it's hard to draw eyes in the manga style.
		Asamiya was serious when he noted that he wants to make sure his publishers give proper consideration to his stories, otherwise he feels that his children are being abused.
	www.fansview.com /2001/animecentral/051101c.htm (236 words)

	Kia Asamiya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kia Asamiya (麻宮騎亜 Asamiya Kia) is the pen-name of a popular Japanese (Click link for more info and facts about manga) manga artist whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences ((The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s).
		His two most successful and popular manga series to-date are (Click link for more info and facts about Nadesico) Nadesico and Silent Möbius.
		Prior to becoming a manga artist, Asamiya worked as a character designer for a number of anime series, and even designed models for some of the later (Click link for more info and facts about Godzilla) Godzilla movies (1980s).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kia_asamiya.htm (609 words)

	iComics.com
		Asamiya's Child of Dreams (which was scripted in English by Max Allan Collins) could be called, in many ways, a primer on the basic ideology of Batman.
		Asamiya has a real knowledge of how to build tension as well; he understands that it's not just the mystery of a masked or hidden face, but the anticipation of what they're going to do next.
		Asamiya's influence by movie directors such as Tim Burton (as well as an actual trip to New York City for reference) is very much on his sleeve here; Gotham drips atmosphere, both in terms of the city and its residents.
	www.icomics.com /rev_031003_batmanchild.shtml (674 words)

	Book of the Week: (7/17/2002): Kia Asamiya: Steam Detectives vol. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The fight itself is excellent -- Asamiya's artwork is never less than sterling -- but what's annoying about this episode is something that is in fact dealt with far more effectively later in the book: the tendency to introduce a plot element, state its importance, and then simply dismiss it later on.
		Asamiya has so many other commitments of wildly varying quality (the wretched Nadesico, which isn't worth the ink used to make it), that Steam Detectives comes out agonizingly slowly.
		Viz's translation schedule is running about three volumes behind on the average, but if Asamiya goes any slower, they'll catch up to him in no time.
	www.thegline.com /book-of-the-week/2002/07-17-2002.htm (796 words)

	Animerica Extra
		Asamiya's most famous manga, at least in America, would definitely be Silent Möbius, a Bubblegum Crisis-like story of a group of female investigators of the supernatural - a sort of anime X-Files.
		Asamiya's clean-lined style is a natural for animation - Silent Möbius has been animated for two theatrical features and a TV series, his manga Compiler has also been animated, and the anime version of Asamiya's steampunk adventure Steam Detectives that began airing in Japan on 26 September, 1998.
		A guest at the 1998 San Diego Comic-Con, Asamiya brought promo footage of the Steam Detectives TV series with him, giving the audience at his panel a sneak preview of a series even the Japanese fans hadn't yet seen.
	www.animerica-extra.com /steamdetectives.html (295 words)

	s h o t g u n r e v i e w s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So when I first heard that Kia Asamiya was going to do Batman for DC I was happy.
		The grand scheme, when revealed by the villain, is really superficial, and Asamiya might have been better served using one of the old standbys of the Batman rouge's gallery, such as Rahs Al Gul, instead of devising a new villain to kill off.
		The backgrounds are simply stunning, and Asamiya's envisioning of some of the most hallowed Batman baddies is truly stunning; the Joker especially captures the manic and utter insanity that lies both within and without the Clown Prince.
	www.shotgunreviews.com /comics/batmanchildofdreams.html (639 words)

	Animazement - Friday - Kia Asamiya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kia Asamiya's art style underwent a big change when he switched from the finely-detailed drawing of Dark Angel and Silent Moebius to the nearly cartoony style of Steam Detectives, his current project which also is his current favorite.
		Asamiya created a manga version of the Star Wars - Episode One movie, and he had to make up a lot of it as he went along.
		He also pays close attention to the animated version of his stories, insisting that the first episode of the Silent Moebius TV series be completely redone before it was released on home video.
	www.fansview.com /2000a/031000b.htm (268 words)

	Anime News Network - Kia Asamiya to be AX 2001 Guest of Honor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kia Asamiya to be AX 2001 Guest of Honor
		Anime Expo, the largest Anime convention in North America, has announced that Kia Asamiya will be among their guests of Honor for the 2001 Convention.
		Asamiya is best known for his Manga Silent Mobius which has been adapted into several Anime productions.
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /article.php?id=507 (195 words)

	CNN.com - Review: Fine addition to Dark Knight myth - May. 20, 2003
		Asamiya observes many of the conventions of American comic-book storytelling.
		By giving her a central role in his storytelling, Asamiya heightens the air of mystery that has always been integral to the Batman mythos.
		Asamiya has produced a graphic novel that is true to each tradition.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/books/05/20/review.batman.dreams (510 words)

	Mangamaniacs Review: Silent Möbius by Kia Asamiya
		Asamiya's backgrounds are admirable for both the obsessive attention to detail, and for the efficient way they set up the scene.
		Over the course of the series, Asamiya develops a master cinematographer's eye for guiding the story through the necessary extremes of action and stillness.
		Asamiya's developing preference for adding computer accents to key scenes of the story has a potentially dramatic impact, which is somewhat diminished in the English versions.
	www.mangamaniacs.org /reviews/silentmobius.shtml (1003 words)

	Animefringe: Features: Kia Asamiya - The Veil of Secrecy is Lifted!
		Kia Asamiya - The Veil of Secrecy is Lifted!
		After years of hiding behind dark glasses and shunning cameras, the most prolific manga-ka in America, Kia Asamiya, is opening up to the public!
		Kia Asamiya: I pleaded with DC for two years.
	www.animefringe.com /magazine/01.08/feature/1/index.php3 (1653 words)

	Artbooks and ISBNs
		Asamiya has been experimenting for a while now with computer assisted artwork and this artbook shows that he's definitely got it right.
		It was only a year later that I learned that Michitaka Kikuchi and Kia Asamiya are the one and the same (and even then, I'm not sure if either is actually the artist's real name!).
		All of Kikuchi's (Asamiya's) artbooks are well worth purchasing and this one is no exception.
	www.anime.com.au /artbooks?offset=2 (675 words)

	Kia Asamiya
		However you must remember that Asamiya does manga whereas Michitaka Kikuchi does anime, so the character designs for Nadesico are probably rather different to what you’re expecting.
		Fortunately not all the pictures are like this and those which are drawn or use real-life pictures which have been adapted do stand out as being significantly better.
		Also whilst there is a picture for Michitaka Kikuchi, for Kia Asamiya there's just a picture with the words "Now Printing" inside.
	www.jingoro.demon.co.uk /kia.htm (755 words)

	Kia Asamiya's Dark Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		About the artwork; Kia Asamiya is known as a master of the arts and that sure isn't an exaggerated fact.
		Dark Angel is copyright to Kia Asamiya, CPM Manga and Studio Tron Japan.
		Dark Angel--Phoenix Resurrection is copyright to Kia Asamiya and Image Comics.
	www.fanimanga.com /DA (326 words)

	- SHOP.COM
		Kia Asamiya is a Japanese manga artist famous for his work on Dark Angel, Star Wars Manga, Silent Mobius, Steam Detectives, and Nadesico.
		This Batman Kia Asamiya Series 2 Case includes 8 individually packaged action figures including: 2x Batman, 2x Evil Batman, 2x Poison Ivy, and 2x Harley Quinn.
		All other designated trademarks, copyrights and brands are the property of their respective owners.
	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p28561283 (203 words)

	TheFourthRail.com - Critiques on Infinite Earths
		Marvel's trying some new approaches -- such as bringing manga and anime superstar Kia Asamiya on board -- and Austen's scripts boasts some strong, emotional subplots.
		Asamiya's work is definitely growing on me. There seems to be a greater degree of focus here than what we saw in the previous issue.
		I love the look of the young mutant introduced in the opening scene, and Asamiya's combines the dynamics of an X-Men uniform with regular fashions nicely for several characters, notably Husk.
	www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/critiques/122902/uncannyxmen417.shtml (460 words)

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