Manga I've Read

Une vague de disparitions morbides endeuille depuis plusieurs années une grande cité japonaise. Cet ensemble de tours bétonnées accumule suicides et accidents inexpliqués, comme frappé d’une véritable malédiction. Mais les suicides quasi-simultanés d’un agent et d’un commissaire chargés de l’enquête vont jeter le trouble dans la police locale.Le nouveau commissaire et un jeune inspecteur du nom de Takamaya vont tenter de comprendre quels sont les liens entre les différentes victimes. A leur grande surprise, c’est une petite fille et un vieillard sénile qui vont se trouver au centre du drame. Sur fond de chamanisme et de spleen urbain, la catastrophe sera imminente.

Hell-o-kitty! Master of Japanese horror manga Junji Ito presents a series of hissterical tales chronicling his real-life trials and tribulations of becoming a cat owner. Junji Ito, as J-kun, has recently built a new house and has invited his financée, A-ko, to live with him. Little did he know … his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow—Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu, an adorable Norwegian forest cat. Despite being a dog person, J-kun finds himself purrsuaded by their odd cuteness and thus begins his comedic struggle to gain the affection of his new feline friends.

MPD-Psycho, the most-requested manga series in recently memory, has found a fitting home at Dark Horse Manga, where it will be presented uncut and uncensored in all of its controversial and unflinchingly grotesque glory! If Takashi Miike’s MPD-Psycho television series still has you confused and reeling, the original manga series that inspired the show is sure to take you on a longer, darker journey into madness. Enjoy the 11-volume MPD-Psycho series for all of its absurd twists, sci-fi touches and inventive torture scenes, but you’ll also be mesmerized by the plethora of odd conspiracies and case files found in Otsuka and Tajima’s uncontrollable, urban horrorshow. In MPD-Psycho Volume 1, police detective Kobayashi Yousuke’s life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something "special" about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi’s wife and kick-starts a "multiple personality battle" within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and evil forces. Earning praise for its consistently shocking plotlines and Tajima’s clean, arresting art style, MPD-Psycho is the manga event of the decade!

The Lychee Light Club is considered Usamaru Furuya's breakthrough work. Originally designed as an experiemental project Lychee's themes of youthful rebellion and deus ex machina destruction, and attractive designs eventually won over a new generation of readers and critics, leading the way for Furuya to take on his many recent high profile properties.In an abandoned warehouse, a band of nine students have assembled to plot out a new future.  Their "leader" Zera is determined to cleanse his community of the ugly and cowardly. Having taken command of a band of young men to build him a god-like machine capable of changing the world.  This machine, named "Lychee," will give them what they've been searching for...a beauty of the finest quality. A surreal yet touching horror comedy Furuya's Lychee Light Club that mixes elements of French Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol and with modern day pop culture tropes and is set in modern day Tokyo. Shocking, sexy and innovative, the Lychee Light Club is at the pinnacle of modern day Japanese seinen manga (adult comics).

God, the artwork in this book. Breathtaking.The shadows are deep pools of darkness that you could lose your soul in. The faces are exaggerated and distorted until they become Melpomene masks. The layouts are wide, creepy, surreal and expressive.And I'm happy to report that the story takes you by surprise. It starts off as a shocking, Bosch-as-pop-culture view of hell. But eventually the story turns into a touching, sad portrayal of the seemingly inescapable cycle of violence that can befall a family.Really good, haunting book.

鈴木英雄。35歳。漫画家のアシスタント生活。妄想の中でしか現実に勝てず、そんな自分に付き合ってくれる彼女との仲にも、不安と不満が募る。だがある日、現実の世界が壊れ、姿を変えていき…!?

In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers of find themselves somewhere far away...somewhere cold and dark... a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland among which their school stands like a lone fortress. As panic turns to terror, as the rules start to fall apart, a 6th-grade boy named Sho and his friends must try to survive in a hostile new world...

En 4-6 capítulos que hay por tomo, siempre hay algo que te sorprende, pero el resto es paja o tiene un desarrollo muy lento. Estaba decidida a abandonar este manga desde hace unos días porque en 7 tomos casi no ha pasado nada que influya en la trama principal y justo el último capítulo se queda interesante... En fin. De todas formas, no creo que lo continúe porque realmente me ha costado sacar ganas para siquiera leerme el medio tomo que me quedaba y he tardado un mes en leerme algo que habría leído en una tarde. Me daba muchísima pereza sabiendo lo que hay y me jode porque la historia en sí no está mal, pero llegué a Ajin por parecido con Tokyo Ghoul y a estas alturas éste ya me había volado la cabeza 80 veces. Además, creo que le falta mucha base que fundamente cosas que pasan o de la sociedad y cómo se comporta respecto a los Ajin.

I found out what I hate in this manga: teeth! How ugly their teeth are drawn! They seem like a monster when they show their goddamn awfully big teeth! I wanted Murano and even Kana have some big parts in the story or some solid personalities. Still the story is about Shinichi and Migi, so I guess I have to roll with it. Now another person near to Shinichi died. I didn't feel sad or anything, so it is a minus for the story. Still I am curious what will happen to all these parasites on earth. What are they planning? Are they going to coexist with humans? I doubt so. Despite not liking manga art, I like the animation. In anime Shinichi and other characters are more modern. Hate oldie hairstyles and clothes!PS: (view spoiler)[ Kana's death in anime was more emotional. (hide spoiler)]

Badou's in trouble again. He's found some of the "Lost Children," rare genetic experiments left from the past--but so has the mafia. It's up to Heine to bail him out, but the Stray Dog has his own problems now that the enigmatic Giovanni is back on the scene. Meanwhile, Naoto comes to the Underground searching for the killer who wields the same strange black sword as hers. And so their paths begin to converge in the dark and dangerous heart of the city...

История про девятерых парней из клуба «Хикари», которые пытаются создать искусственный интеллект и ни перед чем не остановятся, чтобы достичь этой цели. Глава клуба, Зэра — привлекательный парень, но больной и извращённый. Он полностью контролирует участников клуба. Его заместителя и предыдущего лидера, Тамию, не устраивает способ, которым Зэра управляет всеми, и пытается исправить ситуацию, в результате чего всё начинает погружаться в хаос.

Series Description: Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water, fish grow legs! From the mind of acclaimed artist Junji Ito comes this diabolic cross between Resident Evil and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Yes, it's Gyo, where terror takes the name of horribly mutated fish and sea creatures that invade, en masse, a seaside town. Sophisticated, atmospheric work by perhaps the finest horror comics working in the world today. Young couple Tadashi and Kaori are vacationing in Okinawa, but instead of enjoying their time, they bicker endlessly about such important topics as Tadashi's bad breath! But that stench may actually be something quite different. When a strange walking fish appears, Tadashi and Kaori know something's amiss. When a Great White Shark attacks -- walking -- they know they're in real trouble!

The series is about an orphan girl named Midori, whom is taken in (enslaved) by a traveling freak show. The freak show includes such unsavory characters as a mummyman, a snake woman, and a drooling man with no limbs. The owner of the freak show, the eponymous Mr. Arashi, is a strict man who allows his freaks very little freedom or joy in life. He is especially cruel to Midori. Midori works, not as a freak since she is normal, but as a sort of caretaker of the freaks.

「掩陋成就究極之美，不尋常的異態才能蒙神寄宿。」在螢光町一處工廠廢墟，存在著一個少年們的祕密基地－－光俱樂部。以Zera為首的9名少年，為求極致之美不惜虐殺醜惡的成人，更開發以荔枝為燃料的甘美機械。「荔枝」甦醒之日，少年們獵捕少女的計畫也就此展開…14歲少年血腥顫慄的青春大夢，是希望之光還是毀滅的徵兆？ 本書原作為日本八○年代傳奇劇團「東京大木偶」劇目，年少時期的古屋兔丸曾因觀戲開啟了對地下文化的著迷，自此偏離人生正軌。為了結青春期未能加入東京大木偶的遺憾，以及重現當初觀戲所帶來的美學衝擊，古屋兔丸醞釀二十年、完成作品《π圓周率》後才有自信動筆改編的經典作。

In Shinjuku Kabuki-Cho, the biggest sin town in Japan, there are two crazy guys. Ichi is a coward and a wimp, but once he breaks into tears, he turns into a human weapon. With great martial arts skill and a blade hidden in his boots, he butchers a bunch of enemies into mincemeat in the blink of an eye. His arch enemy is Kakihara, a yakuza boss who's tired of everything, including himself. Only when he pierces, cuts, and burns his own and other people's bodies does he feel that he is alive.

Furuya's adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai's original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai's tale details the life of a young man originally from a well-off family from Japan's far north. Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school. The series is composed of three parts, referred to in the novel as "memorandums," which chronicle the life of Oba from his teens to late twenties. The comic is narrated by the artist, Furuya himself playing the role originally held by the author Dazai, who makes appearances at the start of each volume. In many ways, it could be said that Furuya has traveled a path that may be similar to Dazai's. Maybe that is what led these two together after 100 years.In the second volume, comic artist Usamaru Furuya has become obsessed over Oba's behavior. Noticing how tormented this young man must have been, he begins to question whether he should continue reading these memoirs. He fears he may see his own future going down the same path. But, despite his fears he reads on now smitten with Oba and the cast of fre-nemies around him.Oba's Second Memorandum focuses on his college days. Increasingly paranoid about keeping up appearances he begins to neglect his studies and his ambitions of becoming an artist are now a thing of the past. He is spending money left and right. And soon finds himself in a destructive cycle of drinking and self-loathing. Spurred on by a fellow aspiring artist, he begins to take advantage of his family spending money like water to maintain his bad habits. So when the money well dries up, he tries to escape life entirely; fearing that his family and in turn the world has abandoned him. But his charms continue to linger. From here he begins to take advantage of his unique personality to live off the one-sided love of the women around him. Whether it be the experienced bar owner or the or the single-parent comics editor, Oba's heart never truly opens up but if these women give him another chance on life, he is willing to take it as long as their own personal expectations do not overwhelm him.

Le Litchi Hikari Club n’est pas un gentil cercle d’amateurs de fruits exotiques mais une sorte de secte de collégiens sanguinaires prônant la jeunesse et la perfection esthétique. À leur tête, le terrible Zéra, dictateur prépubère au goût prononcé pour la torture, cherche par tous les moyens à s’emparer de jolies filles. Avec l’aide de ses fidèles comparses, il va donc construire un robot surpuissant se nourrissant exclusivement de litchis, qui aura pour mission de partir en chasse à leur place. Mais cette machine restera-t-elle dévouée ? L’intrusion de filles au sein du club sera t-elle sans conséquences ? Qui trahira Zéra le despote ? Sur fond de récit de vengeance, l’auteur construit une intrigue à la Frankenstein qui mêle complots et romances secrètes. Un huis clos terrifiant qui s’achève dans le bruit et la fureur…Adaptation d’une pièce de Norimizu Ameya, fondateur de la compagnie théâtrale engagée Tokyo Grand Guignol, Litchi Hikari Club traite de manière subversive des thèmes tels que la violence, l’homosexualité, le nazisme et la religion.