Asamiya can attend events in May if the surgery goes well

Image via Kia Asamiya's Twitter account

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Manga creator Kia Asamiya gave an update on Monday about his surgery plans for eye cataracts. He said surgery on his right eye will take place this week, followed by surgery on his left eye next week. If the surgery goes well, he will likely be able to attend planned events in mid-May.

Asamiya also added that his eyesight has become so poor that he can no longer count with his fingers and can no longer read messages on LINE. and Messenger. When Asamiya first shared that he had cataracts in February this year, he said he was seeing double images.

Among the well-wishers who responded to Asamiya with messages of support were fellow artists Masami Ōbari, Hidetaka Tenjin, Kazuchika Kise, and Masahiro Yoshinaga.

Asamiya had planned to launch a new manga titled Captain Symphonica (pictured right) on Takeshobo's Web Comic Gamma website in January, but Asamiya has said that the manga “will probably start later this month.” Web Comic Gamma has not made any announcement about the manga's release date.

The “classic futuristic sci-fi action” story revolves around the silver-winged spaceship “Blitzen” that protects the peace of the solar system by creating using the sonic star weapon “Symphonica Waffe.”

Asamiya finished Speope! (Space Opera!!) manga with the simultaneous release of the seventh and eighth compiled book volumes on December 26. The manga launched in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in March 2019.

Asamiya created Silent Möbius, Steam Manga Detectives, Compiler, and Junk: Record of the Last Hero, among many other manga. He provided character designs for the anime Martian Successor Nadesico (which he later adapted into the manga Nadesico), adapted the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace into manga, and wrote and drew the Batman comic : The Child of Dreams. Many of his manga have been adapted into anime.

Viz Media published the Silent Möbius and Steam Detectives manga in North America, while CPM Manga published Nadesico and DrMaster published Junk: Record of the Last Hero. Manga Planet licensed Silent Möbius in July 2020.

Source: Kia Asamiya's X/Twitter account via Hachima Kikō