Proguard Notes

Hehe, this one is a collab between Ronal and his friend, Lufy. I really loved the paneling and inking--somewhat reminiscent of western styled comics (not to mention the sfx) ^^. And the "tokusatsu" touch was great ("Henshiiiinnn!" transformations and the generic robot team: skinny guy, fat guy, and girl. Plus monsters that are defeated at the last moment XD).

Ah, thinking about it, I forgot to explain about "handsome like Vaness" in Nelly. You see, Vaness Wu is the actor who played Mei Cuo (Mimasaka Akira in the original manga) of the insanely popular Meteor Garden which is a Taiwan made TV show adapted from the manga Hana Yori Dango.

Well, MG exploded in Indo a while back causing this great big craze of anything "F4" (the 5 main guys of MG). Guys started "bonding" their hair (making it straight) and wearing sleeveless shirts ala Dao Ming Se (main guy char). I never seen a craze like that since--since--well, since never. And it's still going on I think ^^;;; Personally, I dislike boy-bands and F4 falls into that category for me (though I'm slightly rooting for Vaness since he's Chinese American like me, LOL), but the general teen girl public.... Scream and Faint Mode On.

So yeah, Nelly was refering to Ryan looking like Vaness (which he does--and notice his F4 sleeveless shirt). Even on page 3 you can just make out a poster of F4 on Nelly's wall ^^

Big thanks to Ronal for letting me translate Proguard ^^

God Bless!

- Ann