While the title was Anime and Manga for Grownups I focussed on manga.
The criteria I use for this presentation is titles which I highly value but are likely to be little known and all titles have to be in print in English translations.
I'm often amazed how many good titles get only a few hands up in the room when I ask "Who has read...?"
Here is the list of titles I covered this year, all names are in Japanese order with family name first.
Azuma Hideo - Disappearance Diary
Hirata Hiroshi - Satsuma Gishiden
Inoue Takehiko - Vagabond
Inoue Takehiko - Real
Ishikawa Masayuki - Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture
Kariya Tetsu (story) Hanasaki Akira(art) - Oishinbo
Katsura Masakazu - I"s
Kikuchi Hideyuki (author), Shin Yong-Gwa (art) - Taimashin: The Red Spider Exorcist
Kobayashi Makoto - Club 9
Koike Kazuo, Lady Snowblood
Nakazawa Keiji - Barefoot Gen
Samura Hiroaki - Ohikkoshi
Takahashi Hiroshi - Worst
Takahashi Rumiko - Maison Ikkoku
Tamaki Nozomu - Dance in the Vampire Bund
Taniguchi Jiro - Times of Botchan
Taniguchi Jiro - Walking Man
Tatsumi Yoshihiro - Drifting Life
Watanabe Taeko - Kaze Hikaru
Yamada Futaro (story), Segawa Masaki (art) - Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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2 comments:
Nice list but you can't forget about Sanctuary (and Heat)by Ryochi ikegami and Buronson.
And when it comes to Taniguchi's piece of work:Haruka-na machi e and chichi no koyumi are very (very) good.
Introducing manga for grownups is a good initiative because I am stunned by so called manga readers ignorance.
It seems like everywhere I go seinen readers are a dying breed.
i am from France by the way ( which is the second market for mangas right after Japan) and its very sad thats the seinen genre is becoming a forgotten world.
Alas Sanctuary is out of print in the US.
Seinen is actually growing in the US, slowly but growing. At least in the number of titles coming out.
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