What a Wonderful World!, Vol. 2
10 best books like What a Wonderful World!, Vol. 2 (Inio Asano): PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001, Beautiful Darkness, Shiver: Selected Stories, Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, Opus, Sunny, Vol. 1, とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4], とつくにの少女 5 [Totsukuni no shōjo 5], とつくにの少女 6 [Totsukuni no shōjo 6], Memories of Emanon
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...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421596938 |
A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.
This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl’s window… After an idol...
Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421598469 |
Thirteen Chilling Nightmares Presented by the Master of Horror.
Try not to be noticed when you eat the secret nectar, otherwise you'll get smashed... What horrific events happened to create the earthbound-people tied to a certain place for the rest of their short lives? A strange haunted...
| Author | Satoshi Kon |
| ISBN | 1616556064 |
Brilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of forty-six. But before he became a director, he was a manga artist, and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kon’s...
| 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...
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...
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...
“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 | Taiyo Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1421555263 |
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...
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 7
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1642751162 |
This is the seventh volume in the Girl from the Other Side manga series. This is a manga series that is great for all ages. This volume was more violent and had more fighting than any other volume, but I really enjoyed how the story is finally coming to a climax.
The two transformed soldiers have...
| Author | Takehiko Inoue |
| ISBN | 1421522829 |
Confrontation
Musashi has returned to Kyoto one year after he last attempted to take on the mighty Yoshioka School, and the entire city is abuzz anticipating the rematch to come. When the elder disciples of the Yoshioka discover the unbelievable progress Musashi has made along the way of the...
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 2205071807 |
Weekly doit quitter La Nouvelle-Orléans ; il y laisse John qui préfère rester pour chercher du travail sur place. Par chance, celui-ci croise justement un riche Texan qui lui propose de ramener sa voiture chez lui : un boulot simple et bien payé ! John accepte, mais, dans une station-service, il...
| Author | Juan Díaz Canales |
| ISBN | 2205063138 |
Années 1950, La Nouvelle-Orléans, où la fête de Mardi Gras bat son plein. Grâce à Weekly, un producteur de jazz dénommé Faust fait la connaissance de Blacksad. Faust demande à ce dernier de s'occuper d'une affaire : un de ses musiciens, le pianiste Sebastian, a disparu. Il n'a pas donné signe...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 004
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421519216 |
Damn! I thought this series was slightly stumbling in the last volume and was getting ready but then BAM volume 4 kicked it into high fucking gear.
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...
That was one of the most bizarre, surreal, and unsettling graphic novels I've ever read... and I loved it so much I don't even know how to explain why. Let me start with the artwork:
This is some of the most unique and quietly disturbing art I've ever seen in a graphic novel, and it works...
| Author | David Small |
| ISBN | 1631496271 |
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who...
