Coyote Ragtime Show: Volume 1

by ufotable, Dietrich Seto (Editor), Satsuki Yamashita (Translation)

The legendary pirate king Blues has been killed by Madame Marciano, the boss of the galactic criminal guild. His bequest to his young daughter Franca is a whopping 10 billion space dollars. But actually getting it is the trick. Blues hid the fortune in a complex, custom-made vault somewhere on the planet Graceland. However, Graceland is now enduring such a violent civil war that the president of the Milky Way Federation is threatening to blow up the planet in a week. Mister, a notorious space pirate, his sidekicks Bishop and Katana, and his longtime rival Swamp must help Franca get to her inheritance before Madame Marciano or private detective Angelica Burns finds it first. With only seven days to achieve the seemingly impossible, and with Madame Marciano’s evil 12 SISTERs hot on the outlaws' trail, it’s anybody’s guess what will happen in this dynamic manga based on the popular anime series.

Genres: Manga

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 2007

About the author

Ufotable, Inc. (Japanese: ユーフォーテーブル有限会社 Hepburn: Yūfōtēburu yūgen-gaisha) is a Japanese animation studio founded in October 2000 by former TMS Entertainment staff through its subsidiary Telecom Animation Film and located in Nakano, Tokyo Prefecture. A unique hallmark seen in many of their works (Ninja Nonsense, Futakoi Alternative, Coyote Ragtime Show, Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!, Tales of Symphonia, The Garden of Sinners) is a claymation sequence.

Reviews

[David Doel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a decent story with better art than story. I have volume 2 but not volume 3. I'm currently wishing I had the complete set.