Junk Force (manga)
Manga. The manga was released by MediaWorks between February 27, 2003 and February 27, 2004. The English release of the manga released the first of three "tankōbon" volumes on April 5, 2005. Novels. The manga has been adapted into 5 novels, all written by Hideki Kakinuma and illustrated by Eeji Komatsu. The first three volumes were published in English by DrMaster. Drama CDs. In January and March 2003, two "Junk Force" audio drama CDs were released by King Records in Japan. These CDs featured both new material and adaptations of stories featured in the manga and the  novels. Professional voice actors were cast and possibly intended to be retained had the planned anime series reached fruition. The CDs are out of print. The cast included: Reception. Mania.com's Eduardo M. Chavez commends the manga on character design and the translation of sound effects. Theron Martin at Anime News Network commends the novel for "good extrapolation of future military tech" but criticises it for the author's "unsophisticated writing style". Mania.com's Mike Dungan criticises the poor translation done by DrMaster. However, he commends the author for putting "mecha-fanservice" into the novel.