Posts for Tag: Manga

'Garo' Avant-Garde Manga Magazine Covers | Japan 1960's - 1970's

Garo was a monthly manga anthology magazine in Japan, founded in 1964 by Katsuichi Nagai. It specialized in alternative and avant-garde manga. Here's a collection of over 50 of the front covers...for more info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_(magazine)

Source:
The Three Steps Over Japan blog is a real labour of love, all the Garo magazines have been archived, scanned and reviewed by TSOTE, really good http://threestepsoverjapan.blogspot.com/

http://www.tcj.com/international/garo-1992/
http://vintageninja.net/?p=550

Tokyo Zombie by Yusaku Hanakuma #comic #manga

From comic to film, enjoy the Tokyo Zombie Trailer

"A horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers and jiu-jitsu experts who deal with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. When the story begins, Fujio and Mitsuo dream of training in martial arts overseas and becoming famous. When they accidentally kill their overbearing boss, they bury him at a man-made garbage mountain known as Dark Fuji, where tons of rotting garbage have been contaminated with industrial waste which, naturally, transforms the bodies of the dead into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies.  Fuji and Mitsuo try their best to survive in this horrific new landscape, but the hapless pair become separated after an idiotic mistake involving potato chips and a stray dog. A few years later, post-apocalyptic Tokyo has become a feudalistic society, in which the rich have enslaved the lower classes, and created gladiator death matches, pitting zombies against slaves, and Fuji and Misuo meet again." http://www.lastgasp.com/d/32824/ 

http://samehat.blogspot.com/2008/04/secret-project-revealed.html
 http://io9.com/5048810/tokyo-zombie-zombies-cage-fights-oral-sex-and-martial-...
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37681
http://www.comicsvillage.com/review.aspx?reviewID=312
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/30/japanese-comics-wish-you-a-hap...
http://mechamechamedia.blogspot.com/2008/08/tokyozombiesrock.html
http://dooliblog.com/2008/06/13/sorties-dvd-de-juin/
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=p22j4c4ewp9hjy4&thumb=4
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?p22j4c4ewp9hjy4

And finally, a 'lil fan art... http://samehat.blogspot.com/2009/06/tokyo-zombie-fan-art-from-eoin-marron.html

'Violence Becomes Tranquility' Trippy Manga

Violence Becomes Tranquility by Kaze Shinobu Published in the March 1980 issue of Heavy Metal. Scans of the complete 10 page comic tracked down on eBay by Ryan who runs the excellent 'Same Hat' blog - from article page: http://samehat.blogspot.com/2010/02/violence-becomes-tranquility-march-1980.html - find out more about Kaze Shinobu here http://comipress.com/special/manga-zombie/incredibly-strange-manga-part-2/kaz...

'Moyasimon' Manga: Super Cute Bacteria

Moyasimon is very popular in Japan with the comics selling out on release. The creator, Masayuki Ishikawa, was inspired to create it from a trip to an agricultural college where he visited the sake brewing room. The professor told him that when the sake was ready it 'spoke to him' - that gave Masayuki the idea.

"Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, known in Japan as Moyashimon (もやしもん?), is a manga series created by Masayuki Ishikawa. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen magazine Evening since August 2004. It won the 2008 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Grand Prize and the 2008 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.The series follows Tadayasu Sawaki, a first-year college student at an agricultural university, who has a unique ability to see and communicate with bacteria and other micro-organisms." From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyasimon:_Tales_of_Agriculture

They go up to 11, all on youtube...

More...Moyasimon Vol. 1: Tales of Agriculture - http://www.readaboutcomics.com/2009/12/11/moyasimon-vol-1/ and some Bento Moyasimon: http://www.annathered.com/2009/01/24/bento29-moyashimon/ - Figurines http://en.gigazine.net/index.php?%2Fnews%2Fcomments%2F20100726_wf2010_s_moyas... - Is being made into a real-life film http://asianmediawiki.com/Moyashimon