WHAT ARE THE “TECH NOTES”?
The “tech notes” are a series of notes which Kishiro wrote explaining with more detail some of the technology used in Gunnm and other thoughts he had on various subjects (music, drawing, etc.). These appeared at the end of the Japanese graphic novels but never made it into the English edition (the Spanish edition did include them, however). Later on dozens of extra notes were added in the “Complete Edition” (Q33), and included comments of the character designs, the Gunnm timeline (Q17), analysis of the fights, and much more. The “tech notes” published in the Japanese graphic novels can be downloaded from: http://128.100.80.13/marco/data/tech_notes.zip. Translations of the first few notes were made by moraga@mail.ddnet.es and shumira_chan@altavista.net: Notes from the first tankoubon Factory Techmans The Factory and the tech-men “Factory” is just that, a factory, but in Scrapyard lingo this word also means “government office”. In the Scrapyard, the Factories are the control centers of t
