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An anthology based on the otome game Diabolik Lovers More,Blood. Yui Komori originally lives with the six sadistic Sakamaki brothers, whom are vampires. However, when another batch of vampire brothers come in, the Mukamis, things turn for the worst.
An anthology based on the otome game Diabolik Lovers More,Blood. Yui Komori originally lives with the six sadistic Sakamaki brothers, whom are vampires. However, when another batch of vampire brothers come in, the Mukamis, things turn for the worst.
The visual essay manga will be based on Mizuki's own life. In the series, Mizuki will tell of his peaceful childhood, his experience in World War II, his poor life afterwards, and his foray into kamishibai picture stories. (Source: Anime News Network)
The setting is Aonokushima, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean far from Honshu. There, Reigo Murasame, a high school student, lives alone. His parents died in an accident, and his grandmother, who took him in to the island, also recently passed away. Still, he has no intention of leaving the island. Because he has someone he has feelings for, Ichika Kannagi. One summer day, the two of them decide to go to a summer festival. When they learn that there is a secret festival that is held exclusively for adults, they head off to a place deep in the mountain that is off-limits. Unbeknownst to me, that was the beginning of a tragedy. (Source: Kodansha, translated)
When the Showa Era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the Era. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers. As he describes the militarization that leads up to World War II, Mizuki’s stance toward war is thoughtful and often downright critical – his portrayal of the Nanjing Massacre clearly paints the incident (a disputed topic within Japan) as an atrocity. Mizuki’s Showa is a beautifully told history that tracks how technological developments and the country’s shifting economic stability had a role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy in the early twentieth century. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English and is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of World War II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. Mizuki was a soldier himself (he was severely injured and lost an arm) and uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity of the war. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly) *Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eisner Awards in 2012.*
Less than siblings. More than friends. When her grandmother passes away, high school student Kajitsu Toda suddenly finds two hot stepbrothers and an adorable little stepsister dropped in her lap! Kajitsu and her step-siblings have only one thing in common: they were all abandoned by their parents. Against the odds, they’ve pulled together to form a family without grown-ups. They don’t want charity, they don’t want pity—they just want their dignity! Things are particularly tough for Kajitsu and her step-brother Natsu. As kids, they were as close as any true siblings. Now, reunited for the first time in seven years, they’ve grown as far apart as two people can be. Can they ever become friends again? And can two high school students living together, even as “siblings” ever escape scandal? (Source: Go! Comi)
Autobiographical tale in which Mizuki narrates the memories of his childhood in the decade of 1930, in Sakaiminato, a small coastal town at the southwest Japan. With nostalgia and tenderness, the mangaka narrates his first years of life within a modest family, the fights with his friends,the school and his first loves. The title character of the book, NonNonBa, is an old mystical and superstitious woman by which Shigeru discovers the world of yokai, supernatural beings and grotesque bestiary of medieval Japanese. Won Best Album at the 2007 Angoulême International Comics Festival.