Ayako
10 best books like Ayako (Osamu Tezuka): PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, The Push Man and Other Stories, Good-Bye, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Opus, PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003
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...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 4091858163 |
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,...
Abandon the Old in Tokyo
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1894937872 |
Abandon the Old in Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and...
The Push Man and Other Stories
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1896597858 |
Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years, Tatsumi...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1897299370 |
Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected...
| Author | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770460411 |
Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English...
Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan
| Author | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770461353 |
"Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan" is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of...
Opus
| Author | Satoshi Kon |
| ISBN | 1616556064 |
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421519208 |
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421532670 |
Pluto has destroyed six out of the seven great robots of the world, and the pacifist robot Epsilon is the only one that remains. Will Epsilon, who refused to participate in the 39th Central Asian War, leave behind his war-orphaned charges...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421519216 |
Right off the bat we're given a sweet bitter story about a scientist trying to save a robot puppy. When the "owner" comes to visit it comes to a surprise...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 002
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421519194 |
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 006
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421527219 |
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 008
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
As far as I'm concerned, this is Urasawa and Nagasaki's masterpiece. It's a reimagining of "The Greatest Robot on Earth" (地上最大のロボット)...
PLUTO: 浦沢 直樹 x 手塚 治虫 005
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 4091815561 |
This book mostly focuses on Gesicht and his past. It's a interesting take on the whole "did I or did I not kill a human" and one I thought was handled well. I also like how everything is coming undone. There's no hero so far who is stopping this...
Brodeckov izvještaj
| Author | Manu Larcenet |
The Gods Lie
| Author | Kaori Ozaki |
| ISBN | 1942993366 |