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Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 June 2022

The Four Immigrants Manga by Henry Kiyama

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 The Japanese immigrant experience in America is often ignored, which makes works like The Four Immigrants Manga an invaluable record, both...
Saturday, 2 October 2021

5 Horror Manga Recommendations That Aren't Junji Ito

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It's spooky season again, so that means horror, specifically, horror manga. Japanese comics have a long history of horror stories, but t...
Sunday, 4 April 2021

Message to Adolf - Osamu Tezuka's Underrated Manga

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Between 1983 – 1985, the celebrated artist Osamu Tezuka created one of his most underpraised manga. Adolf , also known as Message to Adolf ...
Sunday, 7 March 2021

Manga Kamishibai by Eric Nash - A Look at Japanese Paper Theater

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  Before what we know as manga , there was kamishibai . Literally translated as “paper play ” ( 紙芝居 ) kamishibai was a popular form of ente...
Sunday, 4 October 2020

10 Junji Ito Horror Manga Recommendations

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Since it's spooky season, I wanted to highlight one of Japan's most famous horror manga artists/writers - Junji Ito. For those not i...
Friday, 5 June 2020

Golden Kamuy Volumes 1-5 - A Shonen Manga of Adventure and History

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Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda is a shonen manga series that covers a wide range of genres – adventure, war, political intrigue, comedy, an...
Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Ryuko Volume 2 by Eldo Yoshimizu: Pulp Crime & International Intrigue

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Ryuko is back to finish the story that began in Volume 1 , which fittingly, ends with a bang. The themes of pulp crime storytelling are ev...
Sunday, 15 September 2019

Ryuko by Eldo Yoshimizu: Femme Fatales, International Intrigue, Organized Crime, and Lots of Guns

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As this is my first blog post as a regular contributor, I thought I’d change it up from my other articles – Researching Historical Japan ...