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Stan Sakai
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Masters of manga/Hiroshi Hirata

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mastersofmanga.com is doing a new project where they interview various mangaka. The first is Hiroshi Hirata of Satsuma Gishiden,

Here it is on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx-rTgCaHwU

and check out their official site:

http://mastersofmanga.com/

Thanks to Heidi (Scoop) MacDonald for this news.
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Post by Jet_Jaguar »

Thanks for linking to this. I've just recently discovered Hirata's work, and I would really recommend it to fans of samurai movies and manga.
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Hiroshi Hirata is one of my favorite mangaka, fortunately a lot of his work has been republished in french those last year.
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