Sunny, Vol. 4
10 best books like Sunny, Vol. 4 (Taiyo Matsumoto): The Red Snake, Strange Tale of Panorama Island, The Book of Human Insects, The Walking Man, Travel, Arsène Schrauwen, Dear Blue Sky, Children of the Sea, Volume 3, The Devil's Paintbox, Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, with Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
| Author | Hideshi Hino |
| ISBN | 0974596108 |
Βαθμολογία: 7/10
Το μάνγκα αυτό το αγόρασα με δυο ευρώ πριν από αρκετό καιρό και μέχρι σήμερα έπιανε σκόνη σε μια κούτα με κόμικς, αλλά αποφάσισα να το...
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...
The Book of Human Insects
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1935654209 |
Toshiko Tomura is a genius; the darling of the intelligentsia. A modern-day Michelangelo, this twenty year-old is already an established international stage actress, an up-and-coming architect, and the next recipient of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize as Japan's best new writer. Her actions...
| Author | Jirō Taniguchi |
| ISBN | 8493340995 |
Whoever takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe the comings and goings of the birds? To play in the puddles after the rain has gone? To return a shell to the sea? The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent,...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 0981562205 |
The Japanese manga artist Yuichi Yokoyama's latest work, Travel, is a wordless journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche. It takes the not unfamiliar plot backdrop of a train ride and turns it into a psychological meditation on the vehicle's architecture and passengers (rather than focusing...
| Author | Olivier Schrauwen |
| ISBN | 1606997300 |
In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke....
| Author | Mary Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0399256849 |
A timely, eye-opening novel showing how war affects families on both sides
Ever since her brother Sef left for Iraq, Cassie has felt like her life is falling apart. Her parents are fighting over her brother having gone to war. Her smart, beautiful sister is messing up. Her little brother, who...
| Author | Daisuke Igarashi |
| ISBN | 1421529203 |
Reads R to L (Japanese Style). The sea has a story to tell, one you've never heard before...
Ruka is traumatized when Sora disappears into the night sea right in front of her. But although she refuses to speak of the incident, the meteorite Sora made her swallow is not so silent. It whispers to her...
| Author | Victoria McKernan |
| ISBN | 0375837507 |
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
| Author | Ben Katchor |
| ISBN | 0140159975 |
The classic graphic novel by the landmark cartoonist is back in print for its twenty-fifth anniversary
Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 1481461125 |
In a haunting yet hopeful novel in verse, award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who became a champion of civil rights.
Asia, Africa, Europe—Antonio Chuffat’s ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful...
| Author | Seiichi Hayashi |
| ISBN | 1897299400 |
A true cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s
Seiichi Hayashi produced Red Colored Elegy between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of...
| Author | Minetarō Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 2353480799 |
Shigeji, jeune charpentier, perd ses parents et l’entreprise familiale, «Daitomé», dans un incendie. Se rappelant les paroles de son père, « uelle que soit l’époque dans laquelle on vit, ce qui est important, c’est l’humanité et la volonté», il fait le serment de reconstruire...
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 2505002142 |
Malam itu sama seperti sebelum-sebelumnya. Kota Jakarta masih sama ramai, sama macet, dan selalu penuh kesibukan dari orang-orang yang hidup di dalamnya. Kami bertemu di tempat biasa dan seperti biasa pula, saya harus menunggunya hingga selesai bekerja. Tak jarang saya harus menelan kecewa, karena...
| Author | Yaro Abe |
| ISBN | 9868703670 |
Edición española de este estupendo manga sobre comida que recopila los dos primeros volúmenes de la edición japonesa. Se trata una serie muy popular no sólo en Japón sino también en China y Corea del Sur, y que goza de adaptación a serie de imagen real, "Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories" en Netflix,...
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
| Author | Nie Jun |
| ISBN | 1512445908 |
A 2019 Batchelder Honor Book
Yu'er and her grandpa live in a small neighborhood in Beijing--and it's full of big personalities. There's a story around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic.
In one tale, Yu'er wants to swim in the Special Olympics, a sports competition for people...
| Author | Kiriko Nananan |
| ISBN | 8493399205 |
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As enjoyable and exciting as I find shounen ai/yaoi no matter how ridiculous the lack of real character development or plot are just to make way of what I deem 'sexy times' between pretty boys, my views are a lot more critical when it comes to its counterpart,...
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421575892 |
I don't read a *ton* of manga, but I have read everything translated from Naoki Urasawa, and Master Keaton will definitely keep me on-board as well. Urasawa seems to have co-writers (or maybe he only does the art?) on this one, Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki, but it still has a lot of what I like...
