Hollow Fields placed Rosca among four winners of the first ever International Manga Award in Japan. Spanning three volumes, the first was released in June of 2007, with the final volume out on January 6th, 2009. Bleak assumes the role of principal of Hollow Fields, shifting its focus away from evil mad science and into positive scientific discovery instead.Hollow Fields is an OEL Manga series written and illustrated by Australian artist Madeleine Rosca and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. He was presumed dead and she inherited Hollow Fields and his money, which she had already begun renovating to suit her own needs before his 'death.' Īfter the events of the original trilogy Dr. Weaver trapped his soul in the clockwork box as a part of her personal experiment to be able to transplant souls between different vessels in order to escape her own illness. He owns Hollow Fields, as it is the estate of his father that was then passed down to him. He knows of the Engineers in the school, including Stinch by name. Croach as another scientific mind in the nearby community. He knew Miss Notch as Weaver's personal maid and Miss Ricketts as Weaver's nurse. He was the husband of Miss Weaver when they were both still human. He is well known in the scientific world Weaver calls him "the social butterfly of the scientific world" and says that she struggled to move out of his shadow as a scientist in her own right while she was married to him. He is a gifted scientist and has traveled the world in his pursuit of science that can help people. He has strong morals and is against all those associated with Hollow Fields and its "use and abuse of forbidden science." His first interaction with Lucy is him expressing indignation at being tossed around, calling her a "street urchin," and when Lucy asks him to keep his voice down later he sharply corrects her in address of him as "Mister Bleak" to " Doctor Bleak." Despite this, he shows sympathy for her and shows that they have common ground and agrees to tutor her. Bleak is a kind man overall though he can be stuffy and rude at times, especially if he sees someone as beneath him. In the colored version, the box is grey metal and the inside clockwork glows orange and yellow.Īs a human he wore round glasses and had blue-grey hair along with a stubbly goatee.ĭr. He can let off steam, as the box presumably uses some form of steam-power. He is a square box, with circular windows on each side showing clockwork gears on the inside.
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