<<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
>>
-
-
Gekiga Yose: Fallen Words 8.1 01-29 01:06
*Currently Out-of-Print with no digital edition from Drawn & Quarterly*
In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and, of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of Gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing.
These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy.
Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.
-
Detroit: Become Human - Tokyo Stories 3.6 01-08 16:39
The game that sold more than 7 million copies!! Action adventure game Detroit: Become Human\'s first official comic! A Japanese original story— 2038, Tokyo. Artificially intelligent robots called \"Androids\" are progressively being introduced to the city. Androids, which have the same appearance and intelligence as humans, have taken on various tasks in society on behalf of humans. In contrast to the rise of anti-android sentiment in the United States, the android idol \"Reina\" has become very popular and has shown a bright future for android utility in Japan. However, behind that, androids are starting to fall victim to human’s emotions such as anger, jealousy, madness, greed, and more, as well as the surfacing frustration from the many humans whose jobs are being stolen. Under such circumstances, a \"DEVIANT\" android that creates its \"will\" and \"emotion\" by itself has appeared, turning away from its given \"role\". With a human girl as a thread, free-willed \"deviant\" androids begin to spin a \"revolution\" in Japan. [Translated from ComicWalker]
**Reader\'s Note:** The panels in this manga are read from left to right.
-
-
-
-
-
White Troika 29 02-26 16:42
1782: Anna and Lef Fyodor defied the current tsar by siding with the peasants, and paid with their lives. Before they did, they entrusted their only daughter, Rosalinda, to a farmer couple. The only thing left connecting Rosalinda to her past is one amulet: \"To my beloved Anna, Lef Fyodor.\"
12 years later, Rosalinda - given the name Rota by her foster parents - has a deep, fervent love for singing. A chance encounter during an errand has her cross pass with Adrian, a young Cossack. Adrian and Rosalinda get along well, and he even teaches her to read!
However, this is the start of the unfolding drama surrounding the instability of their homeland - and Rosalinda\'s past being revealed to her, all while she aspires to become a great singer.
A thrilling tale of drama, mystery, and romance set in 18th-19th century Russia from the great Hideko Mizuno! (*[Fire!](https://mangadex.org/title/d15267de-2481-4a74-bb3c-7b7504f245d9/fire)*, *Honey Honey\'s Wonderful Adventures*)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
The Life of Ichabod Vol. 2 Ch. 15 Udon / Soba 06-14 08:47
Ichabod is a young boy trying to find his biological father. This pursuit isn't made any easier by his tendency to get into trouble with the law. To top things off, his parents are just downright weird: Ichabod was raised by a lesbian couple. Thank god he meets Kirico, who is anything but ordinary.
A very peculiar and interesting manga from the nineties, with some serious topics from psychology and society and very unique characters.
Tell me if you would like me to the translate more chapters (although, unfortunately, these are far less interesting than the first chapter, which just has something to it). A manga which traumatised me and my little brother when we first read it back in the early 2000s, but also made me think alot, even to this very day. RIP Hiroyuki Shoji.
For this scanlation I used the German translation that was made by Burkhard Höfler and released in Manga Power, a monthly manga compendium that came out in Germany in the early 2000s. Sadly, I don't have enough experience to know if I have chosen the right format.
-
-
-
-
Shotaro Ishinomori's Animal Farm 10.1 05-07 22:07
A fairly close manga adaptation of George Orwell\'s Animal Farm, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. A tale of the rise and fall of a society farm animals form after they overthrow their owner.
Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; one where animals overthrow the human race, and the fruits of their labor are made theirs to keep. Though he dies not long after, the animals are emboldened with his vivid visions of a potential future - and one day, through a fierce uprising, they take ownership of the farm from Mr. Jones.
Manor Farm - now renamed Animal Farm - maintains itself under an ideology known as Animalism, built upon Old Major\'s dream and stances regarding humans. However, tension is high, and different parties have their own intentions about the fate of Animal Farm...
<<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
>>