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For the sixteenth day, I drew Shinichi Tokiyama and Bio-01 from Biometal Angel X. The main character and design for Bio-01 has since changed but for the sake of portraying how Biometal was in its conceptual stage, I opted to use the earliest design of these characters instead.

Ultimately, Biometal would be the next manga I would make after Shiroga's conclusion. And it would be the manga that "killed" Shiroga. Biometal was very much heavily inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like Fullmetal Alchemist and the Ginga series, I was a huge fan of NGE and quickly gained the desire to create a mecha manga. This was realized in Biometal and it became a work that changed how I wrote my fight scenes, which I felt got better by the second volume, what with its detail and level of movement.

Biometal also derives much of its story from Evangelion, everything from giant robots attacking foreign beings (called Ajasutas, or Adjusters, in Biometal) to the characters having angst amongst each other and themselves. When Biometal was finally picked up as a manga, the main character's name was changed to Shikyo Hideakiano, and Bio-01 was changed from originally being a red robot to being a blue robot. Also added were shoulder turrets, jets attached to the back of the shoulders, a jewel on the chest, and a change in the design of the hips and waist so Bio-01, and its sister units, could realistically move around like a human and not stiffly like a toy robot.

Biometal's story is contained in a one-shot and, previously, only two volumes. It wasn't until about last year that I got back into it and completed a third volume. Funnily enough, I had been out of making manga for a while until I watched Evangelion again some years ago. While watching it, I regained the desire to write and draw manga, and, thanks to it, has led to the continuation of some manga series- and comics like Nobody Knows which had been neglected for so long.

I remember Biometal being fun while working on it and it has continued to be written to this day.

Description
For the sixteenth day, I drew Shinichi Tokiyama and Bio-01 from Biometal Angel X. The main character and design for Bio-01 has since changed but for the sake of portraying how Biometal was in its conceptual stage, I opted to use the earliest design of these characters instead.

Ultimately, Biometal would be the next manga I would make after Shiroga's conclusion. And it would be the manga that "killed" Shiroga. Biometal was very much heavily inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like Fullmetal Alchemist and the Ginga series, I was a huge fan of NGE and quickly gained the desire to create a mecha manga. This was realized in Biometal and it became a work that changed how I wrote my fight scenes, which I felt got better by the second volume, what with its detail and level of movement.

Biometal also derives much of its story from Evangelion, everything from giant robots attacking foreign beings (called Ajasutas, or Adjusters, in Biometal) to the characters having angst amongst each other and themselves. When Biometal was finally picked up as a manga, the main character's name was changed to Shikyo Hideakiano, and Bio-01 was changed from originally being a red robot to being a blue robot. Also added were shoulder turrets, jets attached to the back of the shoulders, a jewel on the chest, and a change in the design of the hips and waist so Bio-01, and its sister units, could realistically move around like a human and not stiffly like a toy robot.

Biometal's story is contained in a one-shot and, previously, only two volumes. It wasn't until about last year that I got back into it and completed a third volume. Funnily enough, I had been out of making manga for a while until I watched Evangelion again some years ago. While watching it, I regained the desire to write and draw manga, and, thanks to it, has led to the continuation of some manga series- and comics like Nobody Knows which had been neglected for so long.

I remember Biometal being fun while working on it and it has continued to be written to this day.