Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 2
10 best books like Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 2 (Fumi Yoshinaga): しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1], Redlands, Vol. 1, Nijigahara Holograph, Strange Tale of Panorama Island, The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 2, Sunny, Vol. 1, Heads or Tails, Helter Skelter, Very Casual, GOGOモンスター
しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1]
| Author | Yuhki Kamatani |
| ISBN | 4091874193 |
僕はゲイかもしれない。だから苦しいんだ。
クラスメイトに「ホモ動画」を観ていることを知られた、たすく。
自分の性指向…ゲイであると皆に知られたのではないかと怯え、
自殺を考えていた彼の前に、「誰かさん」と呼ばれる
謎めいた女性があらわれた。
彼女は、たすくを「談話室」へと誘う。
そこには、レズビアンである大地さんがいて…。
尾道を舞台に描かれる、性と生と青春の物語、第1集。...
| Author | Jordie Bellaire |
| ISBN | 1534305009 |
A mysterious and bloodthirsty matriarchal force runs the town of Redlands, Florida, and in order to stay on top sacrifices must be made. Someone is intent on removing these women from the top of the food chain, and he's ready to unleash their darkest secret but has seriously underestimated the lengths...
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1606995839 |
Butterflies ominously proliferate as children whisper rumors of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school. To appease its wrath, they decide to offer it a sacrifice--a human one. But this is only the beginning of Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines...
Strange Tale of Panorama Island
| Author | Suehiro Maruo |
| ISBN | 0867197323 |
Spoiler Alert! no, wait, I guess not. it's in the title after all. right there, front and center: Panorama Island. specifically the various Panoramas of various World Fairs of a century or so ago. and thus the island's great secret is blown.
no matter. Strange Tale is less about secrets waiting...
| Author | Kazuo Umezu |
| ISBN | 1421507234 |
In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland...
| Author | Taiyo Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1421555255 |
The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet.What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams.
Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It’s the brand-new masterwork...
| Author | Lilli Carré |
| ISBN | 1606995979 |
The creator of 2008’s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon named to many annual critics lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s Pop Candy is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today.
Carré’s...
| Author | Kyoko Okazaki |
| ISBN | 3551786348 |
Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress and singer. However, soon her body, unable to withstand the burdens of surgery, begins to crumble, and along with...
| Author | Michael DeForge |
| ISBN | 0987963074 |
Oh Canada, Oh Canada,
your horrors are too much to bear.
I can only assume you violently tortured and murdered Michael Deforge after realizing all the damning Intel he has published (in graphic novel format) about your multitudinous acts of atrocities. There is nothing casual about Very...
GoGo Monster has become a reference buoy in my life. When I am adrift (and I am often adrift, sometimes pleasantly sometimes harrowingly) and I need to catch some sight or sign of home, some home lived only ever within my skin, some look-back to a complex of early feelings - feelings of awkwardness and alienation,...
| Author | Ryoko Kui |
| ISBN | 4047306762 |
We've now moved past dungeon food being the main focus and we're getting more into the meat.
| Author | Kousuke Oono |
| ISBN | 4107721043 |
A gag manga is only as good as the main gag. The entire point of a good gag manga is that it can take that one joke, use it in various situation while keeping it fresh, and most importantly funny. It has to be repetitive, without feeling repetitive. Fortunately in the case of this series, the joke is exceptionally...
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
| Author | Moto Hagio |
| ISBN | 1606993771 |
Forty years ago, the legendary manga artist Moto Hagio reinvented the shōjo (girl's comics) genre with an ongoing series of whip-smart, psychologically complex, and tenderly poetic stories. Here now, in English for the very first time, as the debut release in Fantagraphics Books' ambitious manga...
とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800007208 |
Volume 4 of this fantasy/horror series, A Fate Worse than Death, featuring Shiva, Teacher, and Auntie and more backstory about the world and its history are revealed even as we move forward with the story in the present. Back and forth, back and forth. It’s as much a story of gradual uncovering as it...
とつくにの少女 5 [Totsukuni no shōjo 5]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800007577 |
Each volume opens us up to more information and emotions in this dark yet hopeful fantasy/horror? story of Shiva and Teacher. Shiva finds out about Auntie and confronts Teacher, whom she presumes knew about and could have protected her. Teacher returns to the cottage at one point and finds that Shiva...
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2
| Author | Hayao Miyazaki |
| ISBN | 1591163501 |
It's almost impossible for a two part work to be so magnificent, and yet Nausicaa manages to be just that.
I usually just, to quote a friend, ingest graphic novels, and the reason I was able to finish my 2017 reading goal so quickly was largely because of them. Nausicaa has been a challenge because...
とつくにの少女 6 [Totsukuni no shōjo 6]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800008018 |
The publisher introduces the series in this way: “In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 3
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626925585 |
The first two volumes were largely tone-building (as opposed to world-building), as we knew little of what was going on. Very atmospheric. But in this third volume there is suddenly a great deal happening. We don't know everything, but we know enough to know there is a struggle between the two worlds,...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 2
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626925232 |
Untouchable
To be touched by an Outsider is to become an Outsider. A clawed, black hand reaches out to touch Shiva's cheek in her sleep. The hand does not belong to Teacher. Who is this strange new Outsider, and what do its creepy murmurings about "mother" portend?
Enter a fantasy realm...
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 1
| Author | Eiji Otsuka |
| ISBN | 1616557540 |
Five spiritualist students at a Buddhist college in Japan realize the job market is tough these days . . . among the living, that is! But the dead need jobs done too, so the five form the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, carrying out the last wishes of their cadaverous clients, so their souls can move on....
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 1
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626924678 |
Once upon a time...
In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale begins.
This...
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 4047293962 |
Horses, Camels, Cannons, Oh My!
I was delighted to get back the Amir-Karluk story line. They are both a year older, but Amir, who is my fave bride in this series, continues to mother her young husband, though he chafes against it. I'm a man! Anyone who actually says that clearly isn't though, is...
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 4047343781 |
The ninth volume of this remarkable manga series that focuses on girls-to-marry, exclusively by parental arrangement, on The Silk Road in the nineteenth century. The focus switches from girl to girl in each volume, all of them teens, in arranged marriages, creating a kind of historical panorama....
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 4047307823 |
A Bride’s Story is really the slice of life stories of several brides and would-be brides, historical manga set in the 19th century, along the Silk Road, where brides like the ones who are focused on here are typically married by 12-13. This volume completes an arc focused on Anise and her “avowed”...
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori's tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues, this time introducing a new would-be bride--Talas. A young widow, Talas opens her home to the researcher Mr. Smith, who has ventured to her town to continue his studies. However, when Talas's uncle begins to...
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
| Author | Yoru Sumino |
| ISBN | 1642750328 |
The manga version of the coming-of-age tearjerker that inspired two films!
Also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, this deeply moving first-person story is about a high school boy who finds the diary of his classmate—and discovers that she’s dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering...
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 0316194468 |
I'm going through my second childhood enjoying graphic novels (anime/manga). Actually I'm only interested in the ones which are cultural or historical.
The second installment of A Bride's Story is better than the first story wise. It delves more into the cultural and historical setting...
ダンジョン飯 5 [Dungeon Meshi 5]
炎竜（レッドドラゴン）を倒し、ついに妹のファリンを救出したライオス。
ホッとしたのも束の間、彼らの前に、迷宮の主・狂乱の魔術師が現れる……！
果たして、ライオス達は生きて迷宮を脱出できるのか!?
生きて帰るまでが冒険だ！ 食事もストーリーも怒涛の第５巻！.
乙嫁語り 10 [Otoyomegatari 10]
| Author | Kaoru Mori |
| ISBN | 4047348295 |
A Bride's Story, volume 10, continues the beautifully drawn and research-enriched tale of the nineteenth century Silk Road. Period architecture and clothing, plains landscape, and closely-observed cultural practices are mangka Kyoko Mori’s historical fiction jam here. The heart of the story...
E penguara: Requiem për Linda B.
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 9789994342 |
A Girl in Exile, first published in Albanian in 2009, is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship. While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl - Linda...
