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Tokyo Revengers Manga 91 & 110

Tokyo Revengers Manga 91 & 110

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5 Manga With Incredible Artwork

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Vinland Saga

Vinland Saga is a Japanese historical manga series written and illustrated by manga author Makoto Yukimura. It follows the story of a boy named Thorfinn who who is on a mission to revenge is father’s death after he witnessed his murder while sneaking onto warship right before it is ambushed. Over the years Thorthinn becomes more and more of a cold-blooded killer that is driven by his traumatic past and rage. “Mangaka Makoto Yukimura puts to paper some genuinely devastating moments that fans will not be able to get out of their heads.”

I haven't read Vinland saga but with the new anime adaptation that was released, I've been meaning to look into it. From what i see in the artwork, it is very grim and dark which is fitting for the dark themes of the story. I like the graphic battle scenes and imagery of death.

Uzumaki

Uzumaki is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito.

The story follows the characters Kirie Goshima and her boyfriend, Shuichi Saito who lives in the town of Kurōzu-Cho. However one day the town is affected by a mysterious supernatural means that is at its core, a spiral curse. To put it simply, the town and its people are slowly turning into spirals. This manga is an amazing example of cosmic horror as the extent of this curse becomes other worldly till we are left with, just spirals. 

I have yet to read uzumaki despite my love for Junji ito and its defiantly on my list of things to read. However, from the artwork I've seen I'm confident this story is amazing and filled to the brim with disturbing imagery that can really leave an impression on someone.

Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Ghoul is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. Set in modern day japan, the story follows the character of Ken Kaneki who is one day thrown into the tragic life of a cannibalistic creature called a ghoul. He has to leave his human life behind as he is now half ghoul and has to fight for his life and experience what its really like to be a monster. This story really isnt a pretty one as we see many traumatic things happen to Kaneki and his loved ones. I also like how it goes into the philosophy of what it really means to be human and ghoul, and how there's no real difference between the two.

Tokyo ghoul is a all time favourite of mine as i have both read and watched the series. On top of the storytelling, i am also in love with the artwork presented to us. The art is both elegantly and rough with a great use of jagged shapes and maniacal expressions that do a great job of conveying emotion and terror.

Kokou no Hito

Kokou no Hito is a Japanese manga series written by Shinichi Sakamoto and Yoshirō Nabeda and illustrated by Sakamoto, based on a novel by Jirō Nitta. It follows the story of a boy named Mori Buntarō, who is obsessed with solo mountain climbing. its expressed that he finds his freedom through the act of climbing and eventually dedicates his life towards scaling the east face of K2. 

I couldn't find a huge lot on the story, but based of the artwork I've seen i think this is also has heavily psychological themes as i imagine climbing a difficult mounting alone can have a big impact on ones psyche. I haven't read the manga and mostly likely have no intention to in the future but from the art work I've seen i can appreciate the hard work Sakamoto put into it

Inuyashiki

Inuyashiki is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. It follows the story of two characters, a teenager named Hiro Shishigami and a fifty-eight-year-old man named Ichiro Inuyashiki, who were one day hit by an  extra-terrestrial explosion and had their bodies altered by alien technology.  From there we see the two characters take wildly different paths as Shishigami becomes a homicidal sociopath where as Inuyashiki uses his newly found abilities to help the community around him.

I havnt read the manga but i have seen the anime adaptation so i can confidently say i like the story behind it. As for the artwork ive seen its pretty solid and looks nice to read especially with the detail put into scenes such as the one below.

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On Kodansha US’s New Tagline

One of the North American manga publishers recently got a new revamp as Kodansha Comics became consolidated into a more centralized Kodansha with a new logo and also a new tagline.

That new tagline is “Inspire Impossible Stories.” I know for most fans, taglines are taglines. But I’m somehow emotionally drawn to it due to my own relationship with Kodansha-published manga series for more than a decade.

Where do I start with this? I think the 1st Kodansha series I ever truly read was Chobits when Tokyopop released it back in the day. But the first actual Kodansha-published series that really drew my interest was Great Teacher Onizuka. After watching all of the anime in the early 2000s’, I jumped in on the Tokyopop volumes. I still consider GTO to be one of the best “high school teacher” anime/manga series of all-time. Now that I think about it, GTO did something very notable and maybe impossible compared to a typical Shonen Jump story. It was a story about a former young adult gangster who decided to be a teacher in a high school class full of troublemakers. GTO went deep into real-life issues plaguing youth in high school. It made caring about the mental health of youth a thing before it really became a thing this past decade.

Also, I just remembered that Initial D (which is another Kodansha title) was a series I loved when I was a young adult. This is starting to sound like a Tokyopop appreciation post, but I know who the real MVP is here.

I remember a famous line in Gintama about Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. There’s a code in the Shinsengumi that states all members should read Magazine instead of Jump. 

“Shinsengumi Regulation #17: No manga other than (Weekly Shonen) Magazine are allowed to be read within the confines of the station.'”

While it’s a joke poking fun at Magazine for publishing stories about delinquents and appealing more to older youth/young adults, it felt like Jump was for babies.

I browsed issues of Shonen Magazine in the past at a Japanese comfort food restaurant many years ago and it was full of series that I didn’t recognize or couldn’t get into. I did recognize a few titles like Fairy Tail and Air Gear, but the fact that it also had pin-up girls on their covers from time-to-time made me realize that Magazine was different from Jump. I remember one issue had a large fan poll on which AKB48 girl was the best.

A few years ago, Kodansha interviewed Hiroya Oku of GANTZ fame, who drew Inuyashiki for Kodansha’s Evening (a seinen manga magazine). When asked about how he came up with the idea of having a robotic alien superhero in the form of an old man, Oku mentions his former publisher, Shueisha, while describing his initial thought process. He says,

“When I was working on GANTZ on Shueisha’s Young Jump Magazine, I was more concerned about the popularity and sales figures of my manga. In that magazine’s culture, there’s an unspoken rule to make the main characters visually attractive. When I started work for Kodansha’s Evening (the magazine Inuyashiki is published in), there was more freedom. So I suggested going with the not-so-good-looking teenager as a main character. They green-lit the idea, so I started drawing the character in the manga.”

Let me put this out before we go a bit further - I love Shueisha manga series. I grew up on Shonen Jump. Their material always seems to captivate me somehow. They kept me interested in shonen for a long time. But because the fact shonen is the mainstream genre, I might get sick of it when the time comes. It’s why I also started following Young Jump series since they sounded more appealing. However, I do notice that with series like Tokyo Ghoul, Kingdom and Golden Kamuy, to name a few, the magazine is filled with stylish-looking characters that have greater appeal to a younger audience despite whatever mature tones they have.

But when it comes to Kodansha, their manga series are mature from the start and I don’t mean in a fanservice kind of way. Can you see series like A Silent Voice or Your Lie in April published in Shonen Jump or one of Shueisha’s other notable magazines? I'm not sure I can. It’s also noted that Hajime Isayama, creator of Attack on Titan, tried to get his series into Shonen Jump. Shueisha thought the series was a bit too dark for their tastes, and Isayama decided to try out for Kodansha instead and that’s where he’s been ever since as the series is published in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine.

So why appeal to that older shonen demographic? Probably because life isn’t some battle manga with friends that are there for you every step of the way. Hard work doesn’t always get rewarded. The idea of victory can also get very gray. You see more delinquents than overpowered ninjas/pirates in life. While Fairy Tail and The Seven Deadly Sins are two of Kodansha’s popular “battle manga” series ever, both series seem to subvert some of shonen’s popular tropes and/or have a certain edge to them. What’s funny is that both series involve a bar/pub/restaurant location where all the heroes meet up. Many older teens start to hang out in places like restaurants as their after-school hangouts.

There’s a lot of Kodansha series that I feel seemed impossible to tell for other publishers. I can think of titles like Tokyo Revengers, Blue Period, Land of the Lustrous, Witch Hat Atelier, Cells at Work!, Knights of Sidonia, etc. The lineup of shojo and josei titles is also incredible as well (Princess Jellyfish, Wotakoi and Chihayafuru are the best examples I can give here) Hell, Akira is a Kodansha title that’s still groundbreaking and evergreen as ever. Their tagline, “Inspire Impossible Stories,” makes sense as while it applies to their U.S. operations, a lot of job hunting students in Japan really want to work for Kodansha Japan.

While Shueisha does have a good share of its own “impossible” stories (Chainsaw Man was a title that impressed me), Shonen Jump is mainstream-friendly and safe to a certain degree. The stories I discovered through Kodansha made me realize how big the world of manga really was and what kind of stories were possible. While they may not have the biggest fandoms compared to Shonen Jump series, I can feel a certain vibe when I read Kodansha-published manga in that any mangaka working under them has their vision unleashed in a way that pleases both readers and the mangaka themselves. There might be a certain bias though as I’ve gotten to see editors from Kodansha Japan in person when they showed up for manga-related events in my area.

Kodansha showed me that there’s more to the manga world than just Jump. That’s why I love their new tag line of inspiring impossible stories. I think we need more exposure to new kinds of stories that speak to all kinds of people. I know people don’t like different stuff outside of what they usually like, but I believe those differences are beneficial in learning how to appreciate nuances in life when one gets older. Being challenged isn’t as frightening as it sounds. Those differences are trying to tell us something about ourselves. For me, it was “I really want something that isn’t about fighting super-powered villains and rivalries all the time.”

I have ambivalent feelings about my life during my 20s’, but Kodansha-published stories helped me appreciate possibility at the time when I didn’t feel there was anything to keep me going. So go on, Kodansha. Keep putting out impossible stories that are thoughtful and inspiring future generations of manga readers. Tell the world that impossible is nothing.

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Tokyo Rat City - CY8ER Lyrics (romaji and kanji) & EN Translation under the cut

--EN--

A ticket to a one-way vacation A halation that spreads out in front of you Crush an empty bottle of Bron* through the bag Search for tightened veins Pour it in, and you get down Forget about all the worthless things

Senpai, when did you realise you aren't the main character? Look, hey, we're just supporting roles The happy ending of two rats Raised inside a basket Fated to die when the experiment's over

The further you reach out, the more blurred the distance becomes, but We're clapping our hands So that you'll hear us All over the world

Come on Tokyo, what you protect Is the special colour that's only yours Run away from our knife Run, run, run... Tokyo, a mud-covered hero The show that's the beginning of revenge From our knife, That's right, run, run, run...

Papa is always absent A bad smell drifts around the room It burns through my nose and can't be washed away A few years ago I went out I remembered my Mama and cried To escape from here, right It doesn't take much time

The edge of a blade sharpened many times To my depressed self, "what a feeling" That's right, this is my own story The night sky looking up from the ditch Erased even our words of pray But your determination replaces it

The further you reach out, the more blurred the distance becomes, but From now on, it feels like something is going to change We're clapping our hands Like this, until we wither

Come on Tokyo, what you protect Is the special colour that's only yours Run away from our knife Run, run, run... Tokyo, a mud-covered hero The show that's the beginning of revenge From our knife, That's right, run, run, run... That's right, run, run, run... That's right, run, run, run...

--JP--

片道切符のバケーション 目の前広がるハレーション 袋越しにブロンの空瓶で砕け 探す、張りのある血管 流し込む、君はゲットダウン くだらないことは全部忘れてしまえ 先輩、いつから主人公じゃないと気付いたんです？ ほら、ねえ、僕らは脇役だってことを 二匹のネズミのハッピーエンディング カゴの中で飼われてる 実験の果てに死ぬ運命を

手を伸ばすほど遠く霞むけれど 僕らは手を叩く 君に聞こえるように 世界中に

さあ東京、君が守るもの 大切な君だけの色 僕らのナイフから逃げろ ラン、ラン、ラン…… 東京、泥だらけのヒーロー 復讐のはじまりのショー 僕らのナイフから そうさ、ラン、ラン、ラン……

パパはいつまでも休暇 部屋中漂う異臭が 鼻の奥に染みついて洗い落とせない 数年前に出て行った ママを思い出して泣いた 逃げ出すのには、そう 時間はかからない 何回と研いだ刃先に うつる僕は「ワット・ア・フィーリング」 そう、これは僕だけのストーリーで ドブから見上げた夜空は 祈りの言葉さえ消した 君の決意がそれに替わった

手を伸ばすほど遠く霞むけれど 今更何かが変わる気がしてるよ 僕らは手を叩く このまま枯れるまで

さあ東京、君が守るもの 大切な君だけの色 僕らのナイフから逃げろ ラン、ラン、ラン…… 東京、泥だらけのヒーロー 復讐のはじまりのショー 僕らのナイフから そうさ、ラン、ラン、ラン…… そうさ、ラン、ラン、ラン…… そうさ、ラン、ラン、ラン……

--ROM--

katamichi kippu no bakeeshon

me no mae ni hirogaru hareeshon

fukurokoshi ni buron no karapin de kudakeru

sagasu, hari no aru kekkan

nagashikomu, kimi wa get down

kudaranai koto wo zenbu wasureteshimae

senpai, itsu kara shuujinkou ja nai to kidzuitan desu ka?

hora, nee, bokura wa wkiyaku datte koto wo

nihiki no nezumi no happy ending

kago no naka de kawareteru

jikken no hate ni shinu unmei wo

te wo nobasu hodo tooku kasumu keredo

bokura wa te wo tataku

kimi ni kikoeru you ni

sekaijuu ni

saa Tokyo, kimi ga mamoru mono

taisetsu na kimi dake no iro

bokura no naifu kara nigero

run, run, run....

Tokyo, doro-darake no hero

fukushuu no hajimari no show

bokura no naifu kara

sousa, run, run, run...

papa wa itsumademo kyuuka

heyachuu tadayou ishuu ga

hana no oku ni shimitsuite arai otosenai

suunenmae ni deteitta

mama wo omoidashite naita

nigedasu no ni wa, sou

jikan wa kakaranai

nankai to toida hasaki ni

utusru boku wa “what a feeling”

sou, kore wa boku dake no sutorii de

dobu kara miageta yozora wa

inori no kotoba sae keshita

kimi no ketsu ga sore ni kawatta

te wo nobasu hodo tooku kasumu keredo

imasara nanika ga kawaru ki ga shiteru yo

bokura wa te wo tataku

kono mama kareru made

saa Tokyo, kimi ga mamoru mono

taisetsu na kimi dake no iro

bokura no naifu kara nigero

run, run, run....

Tokyo, doro-darake no hero

fukushuu no hajimari no show

bokura no naifu kara

sousa, run, run, run...

sousa, run, run, run...

sousa, run, run, run...

* Bron is a brand of cough syrup in Japan.

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Manga/anime/light novels-

25th Crayon Shin-chan Anime Film's Trailer, Cast, Theme Song Artist Revealed

No Game, No Life Zero Anime Film Reveals Teaser Video, Key Visual, 2017 Debut

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Renai Bōkun Anime's Promo Video Reveals Theme Song Artists, April 6 Premiere

Sagrada Reset Anime Streams 2nd Promo Video, Reveals More Cast

Takana Yukue's T-sensei Comedy Manga Gets Anime

Funimation to Screen Attack on Titan Compilation Films in U.S. Theaters in March

ComiXology Lists Ace of the Diamond, All-Rounder Meguru Manga

Hinako Note Anime's 2nd Promo Previews Ending Theme, April 7 Premiere

Dark Horse to Release Gallery Edition for Lone Wolf and Cub Manga

Sōryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... Reveals Cast, April 2 Premiere

Puri Puri Chii-chan!! Anime Casts Rie Murakawa, Confirms April 15 Premiere

Discotek Licenses GoShogun TV Anime, GoShogun: The Time Étranger Film

Video games-

Spike Chunsoft to Localize 428: Shibuya Scramble Visual Novel for PS4/PC Release in 2018

Disgaea 5 Nintendo Switch Port's Video Outlines Features

Live action and etc-

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas' Shiori Teshirogi Draws Manga Starring DC Comics Characters

Singer Hanako Oku Makes Voice Acting Debut in Seiren Anime

Live-Action Teiichi no Kuni Film Streams Full Trailer, 2nd Teaser Video

March comes in like a lion Live-Action Films' Stills Highlight Rei, Kyōko, Gotō

Shinjuku Swan Author Starts Tokyo Revengers Manga Series

In This Corner of the World, 'your name.' Win Japan Academy Prizes

Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Film's 3 Teasers, Japan-Exclusive Poster Unveiled

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 230

Tokyo Revengers Manga 230

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 217 & 229

Tokyo Revengers Manga 217 & 229

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 201 & 216

Tokyo Revengers Manga 201 & 216

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 186 & 200

Tokyo Revengers Manga 186 & 200

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 156 & 185

Tokyo Revengers Manga 156 & 185

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 81 & 90

Tokyo Revengers Manga 81 & 90

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 74 & 80

Tokyo Revengers Manga 74 & 80

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 133 & 155

Tokyo Revengers Manga 133 & 155

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 111 & 116

Tokyo Revengers Manga 111 & 116

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 238 & 244

Tokyo Revengers Manga 238 & 244

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x88gj9i

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Tokyo Revengers Manga 117 & 132

Tokyo Revengers Manga 117 & 132