Neopatronage Ascendant

Big news broke in the indie comics world this week as the upcoming manga Amaranth Angels met its ambitious funding goal.

The brainchild of Ascendant Fiction writer Yakov Merkin and artist Philip San Gaspar, this sci fi adventure features all you could ever want …

Cute girls in space.

Watch the trailer:

From the Webtoon description:

Saya Nishizawa is a starfighter pilot prodigy, from a family of ace pilots. Flying alongside her big sister in the Amaranth Angels performance squadron, she’s distinguished herself and helped the squadron win one competition after another. Things were going perfectly for her. But life can change in an instant. Amaranth Angels: Wilted Flower is the prologue of the full first volume of the Amaranth Angels manga, coming to Kickstarter this spring!

And it came to Kickstarter. And kicked ass!

You can read the first 30 pages here.

Hearty congratulations to Yakov and Philip. They took a massive risk to take neopatronage to a new level.

And level up they did.

Having just concluded my mecha anime-inspired space epic Combat Frame XSeed, It warms the cockles of my black heart to see fellow newpub creators evolve other Eastern genres with Western storytelling techniques – in entirely new media.

It goes to show yet again that even in times of economic uncertainty, audiences will find and back art that scratches their entertainment itch.

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