Top 10 manga to discover Japanese culture

By the creators of Death Note! The mystery behind manga-making revealed! R to L (Japanese Style). Is becoming a successful manga artist an achievable dream or just one big gamble? Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? Moritaka is hesitant to seriously consider Akito’s proposal because he knows how difficult reaching the professional level can be. Still, encouragement from persistent Akito and motivation from his crush push Moritaka to test his limits!

hikaru Shindo Is Like Any Sixth-grader In Japan: A Pretty Normal School Boy With A Two-tone Head Of Hair And A Penchant For Antics. One Day, He Finds An Old Bloodstained Go Board In His Grandfather’s Attic-and That’s When Things Get Really Interesting. Trapped Inside The Go Board Is Fujiwara-no-sai, The Ghost Of An Ancient Go Master Who Taught The Strategically Complex Board Game To The Emperor Of Japan Many Centuries Ago. In One Fateful Moment, Sai Becomes A Part Of Hikaru’s Consciousness And Together, Through Thick And Thin, They Make An Unstoppable Go-playing Team. Will They Be Able To Defeat Go Players Who Have Dedicated Their Lives To The Game? Will Sai Achieve The Divine Move So He’ll Finally Be Able To Rest In Peace? Begin Your Journey With Hikaru And Sai In This First Volume Of Hikaru No Go.

In this graphic depiction of nuclear devastation, three survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima–Gen, his mother, and his baby sister–face rejection, hunger, and humiliation in their search for a place to live.

In The Big O: Vol. 4, hard-boiled police negotiator Roger Smith’s flashbacks help him start to piece together a lost past. But his only real hope is to negotiate with the criminals who hold the city’s Memory Repository hostage. Meanwhile, a million lightning bugs are sent to drain the batteries of his chief weapon, the Big O.

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This remarkable manga series is loosely adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa’s Musashi, a novel that recounts the life of famed 17th-century Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, author of the martial arts treatise The Book of Five Rings. (The novel was also filmed in the series The Samurai Trilogy.) Musashi is a powerful, untutored fighter who with the guidance of the monk Takuan overcomes his nihilistic attitude and decides to test himself against the best fighters in Japan. In this volume, Musashi accepts an orphaned young boy as his companion and meets an old man who unnerves him with insight into his character. Inoue’s extraordinarily detailed artwork is a wonder, and his storytelling packs great punch. The opening pages of two chapters are reproduced in full color, a common practice in Japanese serialization not often carried over into American collections. Inoue is also the creator of the manga Slam Dunk, a Japanese best seller now being serialized in America in Raijin Comics. Explicit violence and occasional nudity make this adult material. A masterly achievement, this series is highly recommended, especially for fans of Dark Horse’s Lone Wolf and Cub and Blade of the Immortal. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Nina is a former idol, member of a J-Pop band who was violently assaulted by an overzealous fan. As a result, she has ended a promising career, is going back to school and is trying to build a new life for herself. In order to make everyone forget her celebrity past, she cuts her hair and dresses in a very masculine way: she doesn’t want anything more to do with the femininity that made her suffer so much.

A subject little discussed in manga: femininity with all the problems it can entail in Japan.

Hi Score Girl, Rensuke Oshikiri’s Love Letter To Arcade Gaming, Finally Comes To Print! Read The Manga That Inspired The Netflix Original Anime Series! The Year Is 1991, And The World Is On The Cusp Of The Golden Age Of 2-d Fighting Games. And On The Outskirts Of Town, In A Shady Arcade That’s A Second Home To Delinquents And Businessmen, One Girl Descends With Dignity Into Her Seat At The Game Cabinet… Her Name Is Akira Oono, And She’s About To Humiliate Hardcore Gamer Haruo Yaguchi, Who Fancies Himself Something Of An Arcade King, At Street Fighter! Will Haruo Ever Live Down Losing To A Girl From His Class?!