Eat-Man (manga)

EAT-MAN

**イートマン**

**EAT-MAN** (イートマン,, *Ītoman*?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Yoshitomi and contains 19 volumes on which, two TV series titled "Eat-Man" and "Eat-Man 98'" respectively.

With its first volume releasing on 1996 by MediaWorks, Eat-Man was serialized under the Monthly Dengeki Comic Gao magazine, with its first chapter releasing on January 17 of 1996, and lasted there until its completion in 2003 with a total chapter count of 84. Viz Media picked up the manga and licensed it for English release, releasing a total of 6 Volumes in English before dropping it entirely.

## Story

Bolt Crank travels the world as the World's Greatest Mercenary. He got that monicker due to his skills, as well as his ability to eat anything, and then reproduce it in his right hand. During his adventures he meets new friends, as well as his rival Hard. But, his mysterious past with a man named Leon Field comes into play later on when Shadow, a man who can control machines and calls himself Bolt Crank, and Stella, a woman who wants to mechnize every human on the planet, has Bolt going back to an old, unfinished mission he left behind long ago.

## Profile

Yoshitomi, after the serialization of "Lone Night" ended; he decided to move from another company's magazine. Originally, it was serialized by MediaWorks monthly in 19 volumes until 2003 in Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine. The complete edition serialized still by MediaWorks, but now under the "Sirius KC" label collected all 84 chapters into 10 complete edition volumes from July of 2014 to August of 2019.

The title "EAT-MAN" comes from Bolt's special ability to eat inanimate objects such as screws and metal pieces, reconstitute them within his body, and eject them in a somewhat arbitrary form from his right palm.

In 1997, Studio Deen adapted the manga into a 12-episode anime television series which was broadcast in Japan from January 9 to March 27, 1997 on TV Tokyo. A sequel, Eat-Man 98', was also animated by Studio Deen and ran from October 8 to December 23, 1998. Both anime series are licensed in North America by Discotek Media and the manga series was licensed by Viz Communications before it was dropped.

A second manga called Eat-Man: The Main Dish started serialization in Monthly Shonen Sirius in May 2014.

## Volume Guide

Volume 1

Meal 01: **Apéritif**
Meal 02: **Appetizer** (1)
Meal 03: **Appetizer** (2)
Meal 04: **Wedding Banquet**
Meal 05: **No Picnic**

Volume 2

Meal 06: **Food for Dog**
Meal 07: **Indigestion**
Meal 08: **Power Lunch**
Meal 09: **Reluctant Guest**
Meal 10: **Seafood**

Volume 3

Meal 11: **Past, Present...**
Meal 12: **Shadow**
Meal 13: **Another Story: Bye-bye Aimie**

Volume 4

Meal 11: **The Shadow that Stands Above**
Meal 12: **The World's Number One Explorer**
Meal 13: **MEGA MIX: The First Part**
Meal 14: **MEGA MIX: The Later Part**
Meal 15: **Another Story: Dark Forest**

Volume 5

Meal 16: **Reunion and Premonition**
Meal 17: **Iron-like Will (1)**
Meal 18: **Iron-like Will (2)**
Meal 19: **Memory Disc**
Meal 20: **Man of the Past**

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130520221705/http://tokyomangalab.com/?interviews=akihito-yoshitomi
2. ↑ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-10-03/eat-man-akihito-yoshitomi-launches-new-manga-on-october-18/.151817