Manga moonlight

So begins Moonlight Act, a fairytale-themed manga by which ran in from 2008 to 2014. While the series is not as well-known as or , it stands on its own merit as an action-oriented , notable for highlighting some lesser-known tales from both Japan and other regions of the world. It also alternates between arcs focusing on Japanese and non-Japanese tales, which creates a nice balance of cultures represented as well as a refreshing pace of meeting characters from all sorts of stories from all around the world.

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So back to Moonlight Meow… at first, I was asked by Jason to do a manga adaptation of The Tale of Genji, it’s supposedly the first novel ever written and is about a prince who’s like a Japanese Casanova. We were thinking of giving The Tale of Genji a vampire twist so I came up with a story about a womanizing vampire, the series was then called Ladykiller. However, we didn’t want just another vampire story (the vampire thing has been done over and over), so I gave the story a little humor and more of a supernatural flavor by having the lead character cursed into becoming a cat. So now, we had too much elements in the story. Haha. But after a little more tweaking, adding and subtracting, we finally ended up with the series that we have now. And Ladykiller transformed into “Moonlight Meow.”

Moonlight Meow, like most manga series nowadays, is hard to classify because it involves a lot of different elements… it has humor, it’s got a love story, it has a little drama, it’s got mystery, it even has a bit of science fiction in it! It’s crazy! 🙂

What I find really interesting about OEL manga is how truly global it is. There are people teaming up from all around the world now to produce manga. When you’re writing Moonlight Meow, do you ever think about what readers in North America (or Europe, or the UK) would think of it?