If you haven’t visited Book Dragon, a website for “the multi-culti reader,” now’s a great time to do so. Host Terry Hong just posted a thoughtful, two-part list of her all-time favorite manga, from Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys to Fumi Yoshinaga’s What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Side note: Hong religiously reviews each new volumes of What Did You Eat, […]
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Melody of Iron
Osamu Teuka hit rock bottom in 1973. Mushi Production, the animation studio he’d launched to great fanfare in 1961, had just declared bankruptcy. Although Tezuka had parted ways with Mushi in 1968, he was still linked to his old company in the public imagination — Mushi was, after all, the studio that had introduced Tetsuwan Atom to television viewers around the globe, and made Kimba the White Lion a household figure in Japan. Tezuka also faced a creative crisis: his work was out of step with … [...]
Short Takes: I Hear the Sunspot and She and Her Cat
This week, I'm taking a closer look at two new coming-of-age dramas: I Hear the Sunspot, which focuses on a college student who's going deaf, and She and Her Cat, which focuses on a young woman who's making the transition from full-time student to full-fledged adult. I Hear the Sunspot By Fumi Yukino One Peace Books No rating; 200 pp. My least favorite cinematic convention is the meet-cute, that moment in every rom-com when the principle characters first cross paths under improbable … [...]
