Title: Little Mega Man Vol. 2
Author: Yushi Kawata, Yukito
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
Genre: Comedy
Publication Date: November 25, 2025
The Story
We are back, and it’s time to confront the Men’s Six! But, before we get to that, we need to go through the typical eight robot masters first! We have some extremely powerful foes this time around, such as Conveyor Sushi Man, Plasma TV Man, Visual Kei Man, and Comfy Chair Man! On top of that, we have the most devious of the Men’s Six… Gekiga, who has the ultimate plan to stop Mega Man! He has invented a bunch of robots and gimmicks based on 80s and 90s nostalgia in hopes to overload Mega Man’s senses with so much nostalgia that he loses the will to fight!
When Mega Man predictably clears the eight robot masters, it’s time to face The Men’s Six in the giant Orochi robot with eight heads! Don’t worry… two of the Men’s Six’s wives volunteered to pilot the remaining heads left empty by their unfulfilling numbers!
After this, Dr. Cossack comes to Dr. Light for help and is greeted by a laser attack after being identified as a UFO. Once things settle, we learn that Kalinka has undergone a massive growth spurt and has become a bad box art adult! Apparently, she came in contact with some sort of energy and transformed, so it’s up to Shade Man to suck the energy out of her. When they resolve the issue, Dr. Light reveals his plans for the future… creating new versions of Mega Man to carry on in their stead if the day should come when Dr. Light and Mega Man are no longer alive… but the problem is, each one of them have different flaws based on natural human thinking patterns… such as not having any feelings like Proto-8 does, or offering up harsh criticisms, interjecting themselves into conversations, and any other annoying human habit you can think of.
Our volume closes out when Dr. Wily unearths a supercomputer called Ra Moon that looks to wipe out civilization, so instead of fixing the problem, he asks Dr. Light to. Mega Man, Visual Kei Man, Rush, and Bass all head to the scene, but they are greeted with a powered-up Crash Man with rapid-fire capabilities! Once they get past him, a powered-up Quick Man awaits them! Can they overcome this challenge? (Of course, they can. They have Time Stopper!)
Characters
Dr. Light is still cynical, degrading, and a disgusting human being. I love it, but the biggest focus early on was Gekiga from the Men’s Six. He looks like he belongs to a ninja clan, but he’s actually from a family of doll makers. He enjoys nostalgia and creates the only robot master of the eight that has a useful weapon for Mega Man to use. His nefarious schemes involve passivity through nostalgia and just hoping that Mega Man would give up and go away. Truly evil, indeed.
We got to see Tango, but he’s asleep. He was wired incorrectly, and as such, he would just spin attack and fall into random pits, each consecutive pit deeper than the last. Dr. Light grew tired of fetching him, so he just left. Tango got swept away and buried under ancient soil, confusing archaeologists into thinking they unearthed a robot from 10,000 years ago.
We also got to meet Silver Bad Box Art Mega Man from the European version of Mega Man 2. In fact, we also got to meet European Bad Box Art Silver Mechadragon, too. This happened when Dr. Light was invited to France. As one would expect, it was very European.
We also got a taste of Bass, who is about as snarky as one would expect. He’s the one who takes the mission seriously, and thus, gets annoyed at Mega Man at times, which is kind of how he’s portrayed throughout most manga and comics.
Final Thoughts
In the 11 months since reading the previous volume, I forgot just how unhinged Little Mega Man was. I don’t think there is much I can say here except that if you want a twisted, adult humor version of Mega Man, this is the series for you. Whether it’s a linking storyline between chapters, or one-off panels 4-koma style like Protoman’s Multitudes of Red, or when Dr. Light experimented combining Mega Man with Beat, Eddie, and Auto, there are plenty of laughs to be had. At least Dr. Light didn’t slap a helmet on a real dog to replace Rush this time around (although he was present for a family photo!)
It’s insane… It’s absurd… and it’s hilarious. It’s a shame that this is only a three-volume series, because I could read a hundred of these. Next time, we’ll see if Mega Man and company can stop the Ra Moon computer (I’m sure they will). Until then, don’t forget to pay your bill when you encounter Conveyor Sushi Man, or he’ll hit you with his Golden Plate Engel Bomber!
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