Author: Junji Ito
Publisher: Shogakukan Inc. Tokyo
When it comes to Japanese horror culture, I am always tempted to make connection. Why is that?
I remember some years ago, having read an interview of Shinji Mikami, the creator of the Resident Evil videogame series, and he was telling that he was really inspired by the work of a middle of the 20th century writer, Edogawa Rampo. (more…)
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Author: Katsuhiro Otomo
Publisher: Kodansha Ltd. Tokyo
First published in Japan in the 80’s, the 6 volumes of Akira are a masterpiece of the manga culture and have influence many popular manga authors. The animated film version encountered a huge worldwide success. Akira is often compared to the Blade Runner of Ridley Scott, notably because of his futuristic vision of the city.
The story takes place (more…)
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Author: Masashi Kishmoto
Publisher: Shueisha
Uzumaki Naruto is with One piece, one of the two more popular manga and even graphic stories in the world.
Since its first publication in 1999, there are approximately 6 new volumes of Naruto each year. So even if I am great fan and I read the whole adventures so far, I will not review every single volume, but do a more general critic. (more…)
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Author: Nabiel Kanan
Publisher: NBM Publishing Company
Lost Girl is a slow pace graphic novel, slow as summer vacation in camping near by the sea with your parents and little sister. There are no super-heroes in this novel, just a 15 years old teenage girl, shared between an attraction for the world of adults and her comfortable dream world of childhood. It is difficult to know what is dream and what is reality, but Beth met a mysterious (more…)
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Author: Keiji Nakazawa
Publisher: Last Gasp
When I start to read Barefoot Gen, I knew very few things about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. I knew a little about Manhattan project, I learned in school that the B-29 plane that carried the bomb was named Elona Gay and that somehow the two bombs helped to end the war; I saw on TV that a nuclear explosion causes a huge mushroom cloud, that radiations are terribly bad for all live forms. That was about it. (more…)
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