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CREATOR

Name: Tokyopop (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in the USA in 1997 by Stuart 'Stu' J. Levy (1967-). Stopped in 2011.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Tokyopop in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation partly focussed on Japanese Manga comic books, and it still has several active, overseas subsidiaries.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2004. Stopped in 2010 after 16 issues.

Two brothers, Teppei 'Tepp' and Kotaro Takamiya, are specialists in robotic machines (as transport Tepp rides an invention, an artificial Kirin, which is a mythologically based flying horse), but they are up against the evil Machine Empire and its malevolent machines commonly known as B'T (stylized version of the word Beat). Of the many machines Tepp manages to capture one, namely the B'T number X and make it turn against its previous masters.