ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 1
10 best books like ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 1 (Hitoshi Ashinano): Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1, PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001, しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1], Maison Ikkoku, Volume 1, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 4, La Morte Amoureuse, Berserk, Vol. 7, Memories of Emanon, Aqua, Volume 1
| Author | Kiyohiko Azuma |
| ISBN | 1413903177 |
[This is a review of the whole series.]
We sometimes encounter things—moments, vistas, sounds, ideas—that wholly disarm us. Things that slide so neatly between our hope for the world and our experience of the world that our rational mind is sheared momentarily from the engine...
PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 3770467574 |
I haven't actually been a huge booster of the works of Osamu Tezuka. Beyond a hard-won affection for his
Buddha
, I haven't come to take much enjoyment from the other books of his I've sampled. Phoenix, Adolf, Blackjack. They just haven't won me over. I think I may be too far divorced from the...
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 | Rumiko Takahashi |
| ISBN | 1591160545 |
Series Description: Manga superstar Rumiko Takahashi's romantic comedy is also a touching love story revolving around the lives of the hapless student Yusaku Godai, the beautiful manager of his apartment Kyoko Otonashi, and the crazed, nosy tenants of Maison Ikkoku. Bashful college student Yusaku...
Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1421586207 |
I actually know little to nothing about manga, other than having read Ito's Uzumaki and a few issues of Akira back in the day. But just over a year ago I came across an online article proclaiming Inio Asano's Nijigahara Holograph one of the ten best graphic novels of 2014, comparing the sinister,...
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1421586231 |
Punpun is having a coming-of-age story, but look out—his slice-of-life adolescence slices back.
This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a...
| Author | Théophile Gautier |
| ISBN | 1419128914 |
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clarimonde, and this news of her death, in addition to the pain it caused me by reason of its coincidence with the...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593073283 |
Two feudal kingdoms, Midland and Chuder, battle for supremacy in what will become the final clash in a century-long struggle. Spearheading the Midland forces is the Band of the Hawk, a legendary cadre of elite mercenaries led by the charismatic Griffith and with the fearless Guts as its berserker champion....
“Memories of Emanon,” by Kajio Shinji is a very interesting short story, included in the 4-volume collection Speculative Japan. It was not surprising that the manga rendition was just as "memorable."
The only other thing translated into English by this author is “Reiko’s Universe...
| Author | Kozue Amano |
| ISBN | 1427803129 |
(vol. 1-2 tamat)
Komik yang motor penggerak utamanya adalah latarnya, yaitu kota Venezia yang diberi sentuhan magis dan disulap jadi Neo Venezia dengan tema 'kota air masa depan'. Panel-panel yang menampilkan akses waterway, arsitektur kota yang indah, dan suasana elegan dengan para...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593070225 |
Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, finishes his desperate battle with the monstrous Count, cutting and blasting him to gory scraps when the presence of the Count's daughter makes the monster hesitate. But Guts won't even have the time to clean his gigantic sword when the Count's dying pleas activate...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593070217 |
The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to combat Guts, the Black Swordsman. Meanwhile, Guts' pint-sized elf sidekick, Puck, is captured and given as a gift to the Count's daughter, a sweet girl in a gilded cage, imprisoned by her father in her own...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593072031 |
Now that the evil Count has been killed and dragged to Hell by the demon lords of the Godhand, Guts, the Black Swordsman, hooks up with his former benefactor, the mercenary Gambino. But it’s a deadly reunion, one that nearly takes Guts’ life. The following years see Guts wandering from battlefield...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593073291 |
he century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues unabated. The two warring kingdoms, vying for supremacy, launch headfirst into what will become the final battle. Leading the Midland forces are the Band of the Hawk, lead by the charismatic Griffith, with the fearless Guts as his trusted...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593073305 |
Griffith, charismatic leader of the elite mercenary Band of the Hawk, has seen better days. His fearless champion, Guts, has left the Band, defeating Griffith in personal combat as his ticket out. With his judgment clouded by this unthinkable humiliation, Griffith eases his pain in the arms of the...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593074700 |
The Band of the Hawk -- what's left of them -- are on the run, Guts and Casca having rescued the Hawks' leader, Griffith, from the horrors of the King of Midland's dungeons. Starved, tortured mercilessly and imprisoned in an iron mask, Griffith hangs to life and sanity by a thread... and he'll be no help...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593073313 |
Warrior supreme Guts has returned, and just in time to save the weakened Band of the Hawk from certain destruction… and to form an intimate bond with the beautiful warrior Casca. But job one is to find a way to free Griffith, the Hawks' leader, from the dank dungeons and round-the-clock tortures of the...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593074840 |
The Band of the Hawks’ rescue of their leader, Griffith, has brought them no ease. Broken beyond healing, a frail ghost of his former glory, Griffith is now more an object of pity than a man, and the Hawks, who’ve grimly hung together under duress and death during his absence, are now on the verge of...
