Author: Kazuya Kudō
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Languages : en
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Mai, the Psychic Girl
Author: Kazuya Kudō
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Languages : en
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Crying Freeman
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Path of the Assassin
Author: Kazuo Koike
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1593075081
Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A master ninja's duty is to protect the boy who would grow up to become Shogun and unify Japan.
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1593075081
Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A master ninja's duty is to protect the boy who would grow up to become Shogun and unify Japan.
Furies
Author: Lauro Martines
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608196186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A forefront Italian Renaissance historian and author of Fire in the City evaluates darker aspects of the Renaissance including the military forces that ravaged Europe and shaped the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, exploring how massive, mobile armies consumed resources, spread disease and innovated violent new weapons.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608196186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A forefront Italian Renaissance historian and author of Fire in the City evaluates darker aspects of the Renaissance including the military forces that ravaged Europe and shaped the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, exploring how massive, mobile armies consumed resources, spread disease and innovated violent new weapons.
Manga
Author: Paul Gravett
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Uzumaki (3-in-1, Deluxe Edition)
Author: Junji Ito
Publisher: 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!
Publisher: 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!
Ghost Hunt
Author: Shiho Inada
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 009950636X
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A group of high schoolers tell each other ghost stories in an abandoned classroom. When unexplained events begin to happen around the school, it's up to these friends to investigate. Is it a prank, the paranormal, or something much worse? Their investigation leads them to a Psychic Research firm, whose president is the mysterious 17-year-old Naru.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 009950636X
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A group of high schoolers tell each other ghost stories in an abandoned classroom. When unexplained events begin to happen around the school, it's up to these friends to investigate. Is it a prank, the paranormal, or something much worse? Their investigation leads them to a Psychic Research firm, whose president is the mysterious 17-year-old Naru.
Pineapple Army
Author: Kazuya Kudō
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929279398
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929279398
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
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Mai, the Psychic Girl
Author: Kazuya Kudō
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
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