foreWARD

a fight club, an unpublished webcomic, a failed anime pitch, a short-lived audio drama, a testament to art that never succeeds

2003: Polykarbon artists came together in a collaborative fight club project called Escape from Ninja High School2006: Artists MamoruK (Peter Meindertsma) and Kagebu (Cody Savoie) are given permission from the rest of their collaborators to take the fight club and its characters and develop a webcomic2015: Peter approaches Cody with the opportunity to pitch the webcomic idea as an animated series, and it is reworked into foreWARD with co-writer, Morgan Lea2017: foreWARD releases its animatic pitch publicly2021: foreWARD starts to release its first volume as an audio drama2025: The audio drama exits production hell and concludes the first volume, and Morgan begins the process of archiving everything from the last two decades of work

Creators

Cody Savoie
Peter Meindertsma
Polykarbon Fight Club Artists

Polykarbon Fight Club Artists

Peter Meindertsma
Cody Savoie
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Jonat
Kaiyu
TL?
Reddragon7 (J. James)
???
boykun / delugar
PJ
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???

Writers

Cody Savoie (Escape from Ninja High School & foreWARD)
Peter Meindertsma (Escape from Ninja High School)
Morgan Lea (foreWARD)

Backers

Hack Manhattan
Luke Rizik
John Patneaude
Roy Rainbow III
UltraDaiSenpai
Morgan Lea

foreWARD Theme

Jeremy King

foreWARD Logo

Austin DuBois

foreWARD Art

Cody Savoie
K.T.
此间迟驻 (cijianchizhu)

Voice Cast

TitleAuthorYearISBN
Mitsuki OnamujiMatt Shipman
Morgan Lea (young)
  
Arashi MurakumoGriffin Puatu
Julia Gu (young)
Chris Niosi (Animatic Pilot)
  
Mayumi KatsuragiJill Harris  
Masaru ToragumiAnthony Sardinha
Corrine Sudberg (young)
PJ Jones (Animatic Pilot)
  
Tatsuki IzumiDarcy Maguire-Wheelahan  
Kaze MiyamotoPeach Saliva
Michelle Marie (young)
  
Kei NagisaMorgan Lea
Danielle McRae (Animatic Pilot)
  
Zeiryo ShishimaruCody Savoie
Melissa J. Lackie (young)
  
Senjou TatsugumiTrent Martin
Daisy Guevera (young)
Mike Varker (Animatic Pilot)
  
Kashin AramakiA.J. Beckles
Alejandro Saab (Animatic Pilot)
  
Moranaku OkudaRiver Vitae  
Kusari UtsubasaPhillip Sacramento  
Yosuke SasakiBen Balmaceda
Cody Savoie (Animatic Pilot)
  
MinamiYung-I Chang  
Hagane KuroganeJoe Cliff Thompson  
Ritsu KatsugawaMeli Grant  
ShirakoShamon Williams  
MomikoShara Kirby  
Seika AmanoCassie Ewulu  
MusouJune Yoon  
MuramasaRichard C. Barcenas  
OnioriJune Yoon  
KayaMichelle Marie  
DaichiJulia Gu  
JunkoMorgan Lea  
YasutaroDaisy Guevera  
NinaElizabeth Qudenfeld  
Souken KusanagiCyrus Rodas  
Monk AbePhillip Sacramento  
Nobutoshi TatsugumiTrent Martin  
Ikaku ToragumiCyrus Rodas  
Kanami TatsugumiNola Klop  
Narukami MurakumoJohn Patneaude  
Makoto KiwamuraDallas Reid  
Additional VoicesShara Kirby
Shamon Williams
John Patneaude
Richard C. Barcenas
June Yoon
Dallas Reid
Corinne Sudberg
Nola Klop
Daisy Guevera
Elizabeth Quedenfeld
Cyrus Rodas
Julia Gu
Michelle Marie
Melissa J. Lackie
Cody Savoie
Morgan Lea