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A bizarre one-shot by Takato Yamamoto, a Japanese artist known for incorporating "Heisei Estheticism" style to his works.
1. **Kobayashi Kayoko** 2. **2001-nenban Sakasa no Omoide** (Upside Down Memories, 2001 Version) 3. **Hakoniwa Sanbusaku** (Hakoniwa, A Story in Three Parts) 4. **Oshare** 5. **Tanoshiii Seikatsu** 6. **Utsukushii Machi** 7. **Mushidokei** 8. **Tentoumushi no Otomurai** (Ladybird's Requiem) 9. **Tsume wo Kitta Yoru no Koto?** (A Night Where I Cut the Fingernails) 10. **22** 11. **Ame no Shiro Shirt** (The Rainy Day Blouse) 12. **Ipponme no Kasa** (The First Umbrella) 13. **Tsumekiri Monogatari** (Nail-Clipper Story) *Note: The chapter count reflects how chapters are broken down into parts in this series.*
Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today’s graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II. Spanning fifteen years from August 1945 to June 1960, Tatsumi’s stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father’s financial burdens and his parents’ failing marriage, his jealous brother’s deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, the manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo’s Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)—with whom Tatsumi eventually became a peer and, at times, a stylistic rival. As with his short-story collection, A Drifting Life is designed by Adrian Tomine. *Source: Drawn & Quarterly*
With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission to avenge and uplift his people through the sword goes horribly and gorily wrong. Though clearly intended as an anti-discrimination broadside, Bloody Stumps Samurai rubbed the Buraku Liberation League the wrong way, leading to copies being confiscated and burned and Hirata temporarily blacklisted. (Source: Retrofit Comics)
A collection of war-themed horrific, erotic and grotesque short stories. Includes: 1. **Farewell Showa/Saraba Shouwa** (さらば昭和) 2. **Electric Ant/Denki Ari: Waga Bunretsu no Hanasaku Toki** (電気蟻＜吾が分裂の華咲く時＞) 3. **Hail Death!/Shi yo Banzai** (死よバンザイ) 4. **Farmer No.1/Nourin Ichigou** (農林一号) 5. **Snake Boy/Hebi Shounen** (へび少年) 6. **Poison Strawberry/Hebi Ichigo** (蛇苺) 1 7. **Poison Strawberry/Hebi Ichigo** (蛇苺) 2 8. **Poison Strawberry/Hebi Ichigo** (蛇苺) 3 9. **3rd Year High School Student/Koukou Sannen Sei** (高校三年生) 10. **Children's Art Broadcast/Shounen Gahou** (少年画報) 11. **Nagasaki Prefecture Minamitakaki - Gunnishiariechou Jionji/Nagasaki Minami-takagi Gunnishiariiemchou Jionji** (長崎県南高来郡西有家町慈恩寺) 12. **Michael Jackson's Bad/BAD** 13. **Totally Scary/Tottemo Kowai** (とっても恐い) 14. **Sleeping Man/Nemuri Otoko** (眠り男) 15. **SOJIN** 14. **The Gold Notebook/Cornet d'or** (金の手帳) 15. **Joy Division** 16. **Fake Electric Ant/Gansaku: Denki Ari** (贋作・電気蟻) 17. **Planet Of The Jap** (日本人の惑星)
"Mumei no Hitobito Ishoku Retsuden" is a compilation of short stories by Hiroshi Hirata that talks about the lives of real heros but whose names do not appear in history books.
Hirata has been a gekiga designer for more than thirty years. But it's not easy to reconcile work and everyday life when you're a jack-of-all-trades like him. Fan of video projectors, DIY and synthesizers, he must above all respond to the requests of his publisher! Sex, education, gardening, but also anecdotes of work are on the program of this humorous work. (Source: Delcourt, translated)
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, he forms a vigilante group with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
This is a semi-autobiographical story of manga author Kazuichi Hanawa's time when he was taken in for a violation of bearing of arms. The main character really loves to collect guns, what can he to do about this? Nothing, really. He cant help it even if he is living in a country where its illegal to own any. All he can do is to continue his hobby and hope that nothing goes wrong. Well, it did go wrong and we follow his experience in prison. (Source: koufukuron.com)
A horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers and jiu-jitsu experts who deal with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. When the story begins, Fujio and Mitsuo dream of training in martial arts overseas and becoming famous. When they accidentally kill their overbearing boss, they bury him at a man-made garbage mountain known as Dark Fuji, where tons of rotting garbage have been contaminated with industrial waste which, naturally, transforms the bodies of the dead into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies. Fuji and Mitsuo try their best to survive in this horrific new landscape, but the hapless pair become separated after an idiotic mistake involving potato chips and a stray dog. A few years later, post-apocalyptic Tokyo has become a feudalistic society, in which the rich have enslaved the lower classes, and created gladiator death matches, pitting zombies against slaves, and Fuji and Misuo meet again. (Source: Last Gasp)
A fantastic story about a girl and a Kappa who are supposed to go to town for a job interview, but accidentally find themselves in charge of cooking on an octopus fishing submarine whose crew is made up of Kappa... (Source: Seirin Kogeisha)