In the opening pages of Descending Stories, we’re introduced to Yotaro, an amiable ex-con with an unusual plan for going straight: he wants to become a rakugoka, or rakugo artist. To learn the ropes of this venerable performing tradition, Yotaro cajoles a rakugo master into accepting him as an apprentice — something that Yakumo has resisted doing in the past, even […]
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Seven Seas Licenses Go Nagai’s Devilman
Sweet fancy Jesus! Seven Seas just announced plans to publish Go Nagai's 1972 classic Devilman and its 2012 sequel Devilman vs. Hades. Though historians have long regarded Devilman as one of Nagai's most influential creations, no North American publisher has licensed this controversial series before, undoubtedly because of its gleeful appropriation of Judeo-Christian mythology. (It's an equal-opportunity offender!) Translation connoisseurs will be pleased to hear that Zac Davisson (Kitaro, … [...]
Summer Manga Previews
Wondering what to read this summer? VIZ just posted a trailer for its biggest June release: Satoru Noda's manly-man adventure Golden Kamuy. The story focuses on Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War. After surviving 203 Hill -- one of the war's most protracted battles -- he trades his soldier's gun for a miner's pickaxe, hoping to raise money for a fallen comrade's widow. When Sugimoto discovers a map pointing to hidden Ainu gold, however, he lights out for the territory in … [...]
