Living Outside of the Law in Inio Asano’s Mujina Into the Deep Volume 1
The opening is action-packed, a thrill ride that gets us into Inio Asano’s book but it’s not the story that Asano is telling.
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A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day
Tokyo These Days isn’t a travelogue or a how to but it wants to let the reader know about the spirit of Tokyo and manga, how they’re intertwined, and how they weigh down on the artists and editors who create them.
On Junji Ito
I discovered Juni Ito’s manga about 9 years ago, when Viz started rereleasing his work again, starting with Uzamaki. At Panel Patter, I jumped on his stuff, getting sucked into Uzamaki and GYO. Other books followed and there are some that I need to still catch up with (Remina
Atsushi Kaneko Uses Action To Reveal Character in Search and Destroy Vol. 1
Search and Destroy is a revenge thriller you feel in your bones.
It's the End of the World-- a look at Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys
It’s weirdly prophetic to read 20th Century Boys in 2024, looking back on the last decade and wondering how we missed Urasawa’s possible warning of all of this.
Tekkonkinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto
Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.
The Kids Aren’t Alright in Kyoko Okazaki's River’s
How can you have compassion for other people when you have none for yourself?