#kia asamiya

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Art by Kia Asamiya/Michitaka Kikuchi for Dragon Magazine.

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Corrector Yui will receive a complete Blu-ray box release containing the entire anime series in its recent digitally remastered format. The box art features creator Asamiya Kia's 25th anniversary illustration of Yui, Haruna, Ai and I.R.

The set retails for 33,000 yen and can be preordered directly from Universal here, with the release hitting shelves in Japan on the 25th of February 2026.

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Monthly Shōnen Jump (月刊少年ジャンプ) / Shūeisha (集英社) / Promotional phone card (Featured series: Steam Detectives by Kia Asamiya)

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Cover of the movie program for "Silent Möbius 2 the Motion Picture", Kadokawa Pictures Inc, July 1992. Scanned from my personal collection.

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For my first Tumblr post, I thought I'd discuss/analyze this image of Princess Serenity drawn by Kia Asamiya (麻宮 騎亜) featured in the Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Memorial Picture Collection Vol. Infinity - a Sailor Moon artbook self published by Naoko Takeuchi & distributed at the 1997 Summer Comiket. The artbook featured many images drawn by manga-ka friends of Naoko Takeuchi.

The throne Princess Serenity is sitting on appears to be a stylized form of Metron's Moebius Chair (which was originally depicted as green, but over the years the Moebius chair has often been colored as light blue/grey - most famously in the Darkseid War arc when Batman seized control of Metron's Moebius chair).

The image is a rather clever visual pun - at the time of the Sailor Moon Infinity Artbook's release (1997), Kia Asamiya was working on the anime adaption of his manga Silent Moebius. & Kia Asamiya's art studio (as well as his website) is named Studio Tron (スタジオトロン)

Now this is purely speculation, but it's also possible Kia Asamiya was alluding to the Silver Imperium Crystal's functional similarities to Metron's most powerful artifact, the Worlogog. Both the Silver Imperium Crystal and the Worlogog have the power to control time/rewrite reality/grant wishes/heal/resurrect the dead/restore planets. Asamiya could also be referencing how Metron is essentially the DC Universe's equivalent of Marvel's The Watcher (another Jack Kirby created character). The Watcher (real name Uatu) famously resides on the moon, watching over the Marvel Universe's Earth (and occasionally helping to stop cosmic threats like Galactus).

Over the years Kia Asamiya has done illustrations for DC Comics (I believe he's drawn Teen Titans & Batman cover art?) and has confessed to being a fan of Western superhero comics, so it's not a stretch to assume Asamiya was familiar with Jack Kirby/the New Gods lore when he drew the image.

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