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Look Back (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot follows Fujino, a fourth grader convinced she is the best artist around, and Kyomoto, a classmate too anxious to attend school, as drawing manga binds them together. Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, first released the complete story free online in 2021, and it fits…0 - 2
Goodbye, Eri (2023)Published Jan 1, 2023Arriving about a year after Look Back, Fujimoto's 200-page one-shot starts with a young filmmaker, Yuta, contemplating suicide after his mother's death, until a chance meeting with a mysterious girl changes his life. Most pages run just four stretched-out panels, like frames of film, so the book…0 - 3
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (2010)Published Jan 1, 2010The best way into the literary side of shojo manga. Fantagraphics gathered ten of Moto Hagio's stories, from "Bianca" in 1971 to "The Willow Tree" in 2007, so one hardcover shows how her storytelling changed over more than three decades.
Read "Iguana Girl" first: Rika is an ordinary girl whose…0 - 4
The Push Man and Other Stories (2005)Published Jan 1, 2005Yoshihiro Tatsumi coined the word gekiga for manga with grown-up subjects, and these stories from 1969 show why it needed a name. Each is a short, bleak snapshot of working-class Japan, built around companionship, self-worth and family, and the small magazine that ran them gave him only eight pages…0 - 5
Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017The horror collection for readers who care how a short story is built. Junji Ito chose these nine stories himself, eight from across his career and one new, and each older story comes with his own short commentary plus his preparatory notes and sketches.
The stories get better as the book goes on,…0 - 6
Tesoro (2011)Published Jan 1, 2011Natsume Ono's fourteen short stories, drawn between 1998 and 2008, are quiet pieces about family, friends, couples and unexpected bonds, and they make the best case for her as a miniaturist. "Three Short Stories About Bento," including a single dad trying to make the perfect boxed lunch, is the…0 - 7
What a Wonderful World! (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009Volumes 1 and 2 of Viz's English edition
Inio Asano's intersecting vignettes begin with a college dropout bored of her mediocre routine and widen into a web of young adults in modern Japan whose lives brush past one another. Each chapter is a complete story, so the two slim books read like a…0 - 8
Blue Spring (2004)Published Jan 1, 2004Taiyo Matsumoto's seven stories about the delinquents of one rundown high school are the bleakest youth stories here, and the most inventive on the page. Boys skip class, fight and play a dangerous game on the school roof, and Matsumoto's jump cuts, daydreams and split-screen panels make their…0 - 9
The Complete Mature Works of Yoshiharu Tsuge (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Volume 3: Nejishiki
Yoshiharu Tsuge's "Nejishiki," also known as "Screw Style," first appeared in the alternative magazine Garo in 1968 and still reads like a walk through a dream. This volume of Drawn & Quarterly's complete Tsuge sets it among seven short stories, including "Master of the…0 - 10
Rohan at the Louvre (2012)Published Jan 1, 2012Hirohiko Araki was invited by the Louvre to make a comic about the museum, and the result is a full-color ghost story starring Rohan Kishibe, the manga artist from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It opens with a young Rohan living at his grandmother's boarding house, then jumps about ten years as he…0
