Items8The creator’s order
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Blue Spring (2004)Published Jan 1, 2004Seven short stories about high school boys with too much time and nothing to lose: petty delinquency, fights that go nowhere and a dangerous game played on a school rooftop. This is early Matsumoto, before the big cities and the big casts, and the line is at its rawest and most restless, which…0 - 2
Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White 30th Anniversary Edition (2023)Published Jan 1, 2023Two orphaned street kids, the hard-edged Black and the dreamy White, rule the rooftops of Treasure Town until the yakuza arrive with plans to remake it. The city is the real star: crowded, tilting panoramas where alleys bend and buildings lean as if seen by a child hanging upside down.
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Ping Pong (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Childhood friends Peco and Smile play on their high school's table tennis team: one a showboating natural rattled by a loss to a stronger player, the other a blank-faced talent his coach believes could be great if he cared. Matsumoto turns a rally into pure motion, with bodies stretched and the…0 - 4
Gogo Monster (2009)Published Jan 1, 2009Third grader Yuki is sure that unseen beings share his school, and his classmate Makoto sticks by him anyway. Matsumoto builds the whole book around a lonely child's inner world, using huge empty spaces, tiny figures and pages where almost nothing is drawn, so the tension comes from what you cannot…0 - 5
No. 5 (2021)Published Jan 1, 2021On a future Earth that has mostly turned to desert, No. 5, one of the superpowered guardians of the Rainbow Council, goes rogue with a mysterious companion called Matryoshka, and his fellow guardians are sent to hunt him down. This is Matsumoto at his most experimental: a science fiction chase…0 - 6
Sunny (VIZ Media English edition) (2013)Published May 21, 2013The children of the Star Kids home, a mix of group home and orphanage, escape their lives by climbing into the Sunny, a broken-down old car on the front lawn, and imagining they are going anywhere else. Matsumoto has said the series is not autobiographical but that parts are close to his own…0 - 7
Cats of the Louvre (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019A colony of cats lives hidden in the attic of the Louvre, unseen by the people below, and one kitten, Yukinoko, can slip inside the paintings. Matsumoto uses the museum as a playground for his gift for drawing small creatures in vast spaces, and the result is a gentle fable about art and…0 - 8
Tokyo These Days (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits, sure that early retirement is the only way to make up for his failures, and then finds that manga is not finished with him. Matsumoto's late style is calmer and more open than the early books, with quiet Tokyo streets and pauses that…0
