keigo shinzo
Keigo Shinzo’s slice-of-life story captures the ups and downs that most of us face every day, reflecting them through our own insecurities as we watch these mismatched cousins try to navigate their lives.
inio asano
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.
TAIYO MATSUMOTO
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.
naoki urasawa
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.
TAIYO MATSUMOTO
Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.
tatsuki fujimoto
Whether it’s to protect himself or his characters, Tatskuki Fujimoto sets up this distance, holding his audience back from being there with these two.
tatsuki fujimoto
Fujimoto comes back to the image of the girls working on their manga many times and it has a ring of truth to it like he’s speaking from his own experience, bordering somewhere along the sacred and the mundane.
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Rumiko Takahashi
As the other characters are defined more clearly by their roles in this story, Kyoko remains a mystery to the boarders and the reader. She’s clearly the responsible one in the house but it’s a reluctant responsibility.
TAIYO MATSUMOTO
Taiyo Matsumoto has this shifting lens of reality. In this comics, he continually pushes the way we experience his drawings.No. 5 was manga inspired by Moebius.Tekkon Kinkreet was a wild trip viewing the city through the exaggerated experiences of children and GoGo Monster turned an elementary school into