Enter the New Hero!
Enter the New Hero! was a four-panel comic that was based on Rayman 2's launch in Japan. It is currently known to have been published in Monthly Corocoro magazine's May 2002 edition. It typically had a generic mangá look with Rayman's design be relatively close of the cancelled Rayman prototype with the exception of the shirt colour be blue to match the hue difference used in the Japanese edition of Rayman 2. It is not known if more pages were created and launched.
Translation
For a better understanding of the 4koma it must be read from the right to the left given the Japanese provenance of the comic strip. The following translation obeys to that same order.
Title
- By Yoshikazu Hori ; Enter the New Hero
Panel 1
- Rayman? Never heard of him. What's he like?
- (Board) "Japan welcomes Rayman!"
- (Onomatopoeia) Twitch
Panel 2
- Me? Why, I'm very handsome and popular with the ladies!
- (Onomatopoeia) Whoosh
- Wah!
Panel 3
- Also, I'm a hero of justice, and super powerful!
- (Onomatopoeia) Boing
- Well that's nothing new...
Panel 4
- Headshot!!
- (Onomatopoeia) Whzz
- This is definitely new...!
Credits
Hori Yoshikazu was credited for both the writting and the illustration of the comic.