Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
I first came to know Yoshikazu Yasuhiko in the early-to-mid-90s via the Venus Wars manga when Dark Horse published it English in the US comic book style. I was captivated by his painted covers and slick, futuristic, dystopian sci-fi setting. I acquired the official US VHS of the anime adaptation a bit later and I was blown away again. My memory tells me that all of this happened when I was in high school around 1990-91 but the internet tells me that the US comic and the US VHS release both came out in 1993 after I had already graduated and was an adult (legally, though not really mentally). Eventually the VHS and the comics were mostly forgotten and my focus moved on to a large degree to the vast and exciting world of underground DIY hardcore punk. Shows, records, and zines dominated most of my time and money for the next 10 plus years. I eventually moved away from western Pennsylvania to the great city of Philadelphia 5 hours to the east. I never connected with the local scene ...