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A Life Formed by Manga: a look at Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Day

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.

It's the End of the World-- a look at Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys

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 by Taiyo Matsumoto

Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.

“… So Film Me Until My Dying Breath.”- Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

“… So Film Me Until My Dying Breath.”- Goodbye, Eri by 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.

Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Viz Signature)

Good and Bad Days in Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back

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.

#screenshotreviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Rorschach, and Asadora V4

#screenshotreviews- What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Rorschach, and Asadora V4

Check out our capsule reviews of Tyler Boss and Matthew Rosenberg's What's The Furthest Place From Here #2, Naoki Urasawa's Asadora! Volume 4, and Tom King and Jorge Fornés Rorschach.

Moving In with Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku Volume 1

Moving In with Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku Volume 1

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.