Author: Kazuya KudōPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mai, the Psychic Girl
Author: Kazuya KudōPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Crying Freeman
Author: Kazuo KoikePublisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1593074786
Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
He is Yo Himomura, deadly assassin for the 108 Dragons, the Chinese Mafia. But to the criminal underworld who fear him, he is known as Crying Freeman, the killer who sheds tears at the fate of his victims. A young, handsome, sensitive artist, Yo has been hypnotically programmed by his Dragon masters to kill on command: he cannot resists his masters' commands to kill; his masters cannot stop his tears of remorse. Written by the legendary Kazuo Koike, creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, and illustrated by the incomparable Ryoichi Ikegami, Crying Freeman is adult manga at its most challenging: dark, violent, morally complex, erotically charged and regarded worldwide as one of the classics of adult graphic fiction. Dark Horse Manga is proud to present Crying Freeman, yet another of the jewels in the crown of manga classics, presented in its original right-to-left reading orientation.
Astro Boy
Author: Osamu TezukaPublisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1569717907
Category : Astro Boy (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Astro Boy teams up with Dr. Ochanimizu to fight for robots rights.
Manga
Author: Paul GravettPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1856693910
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Japan's output of manga is massive, accounting for a staggering forty percent of everything published each year in the country.Outside Japan, there has been a global boom in sales, with the manga aesthetic spreading from comics into all areas of Western youth culture through film, computer games, advertising, and design. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics presents an accessible, entertaining, and highly-illustrated introduction to the development and diversity of Japanese comics from 1945 to the present. Featuring striking graphics and extracts from a wide range of manga, the book covers such themes as the specific attributes of manga in contrast to American and European comics; the life and career of Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy and originator of story manga; boys' comics from the 1960s to the present; the genres and genders of girls' and women's comics; the darker, more realistic themes of gekiga -- violent samurai, disturbing horror and apocalyptic science fiction; issues of censorship and protest; and manga's role as a major Japanese export and global influence.
Astro Boy Volume 8
Author: Osamu TezukaPublisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1621155773
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy has for fifty years represented the best in all-ages graphic fiction and is regarded universally as the launching pad for the worldwide manga and anime explosion. Filled with humor, action, drama, and humanity -- not to mention robots! -- Astro Boy will remind you why comics first grabbed your heart and imagination. In this volume, Astro remains stranded in the 20th century, but he's certainly not laying about! Astro must save the Earth from a voracious Martian fungus -- and save the intelligent organism from the hydrogen bomb -- all the while having to begin the fight for robot's rights and to keep robots from fighting each other!
Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 2
Author: Natsuki TakayaPublisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975358295
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When she was living in a tent pitched on the Sohma family's land, Tohru Honda's primary concerns were dirt and slugs. But now that she's living with the Sohmas, she's gotten a crash course in magical powers and ancient curses! And as if keeping the Sohma clan secret wasn't bad enough, Tohru has to work overtime to prevent all the jealous girls from finding out that she's living under the same roof as the school prince, Yuki, and the school hothead, Kyo! What new drama will Valentine's Day bring into Tohru's life?!
Mai, the Psychic Girl
Author: Kazuya KudoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781852862046
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Mai, the Psychic Girl
Author: Kazuya KudōPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Uzumaki (3-in-1, Deluxe Edition)
Author: Junji ItoPublisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781421561325
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A masterpiece of horror manga, now available in a deluxe hardcover edition! Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
Anime Interviews
Author: Trish LedouxPublisher: Cadence Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In this book, the first collection of its kind, you will hear insights directly from the mouths and minds of the anime and manga creators themselves, in interviews with are often the only ones on record in English. some of these creators are larger-than-life legends in their native Japan, some are up-and-coming young talents, but all have a lot to say on the subject of their work.