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Adventures in the Floating World: Gyo

August 28, 2014 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. Up now is Gyo, a bizarre horror manga by legendary artist Junji Ito, best know for his incredible series Uzumaki. Gyo was first published in the seinen (young men’s) magazine Big Comic Spirits […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adventures in the Floating World, Gyo, horror, Junji Ito, manga

Adventures in the Floating World: Detroit Metal City

June 25, 2014 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Detroit Metal City Kiminori Wakasugi Viz

Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. This month, it’s Detroit Metal City, a bizarre comedy manga about Japan’s most extreme death metal band that originally ran in Young Animal, a Japanese lads’ mag of sorts, beginning in […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adventures in the Floating World, Detroit Metal City, Kiminori Wakasugi, manga, Viz Media

Adventures in the Floating World: Gantz

May 19, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. This month, he digs into the bizarre sci-fi horror series Gantz, which debuted in Weekly Young Jump in Japan in 2000 and has been reprinted in North America since 2008 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adventures in the Floating World, Dark Horse, Gantz, Hiroya Oku, manga

Adventures in the Floating World: Lone Wolf and Cub

April 21, 2014 By LoserCityBoss 2 Comments

Lone Wolf and Cub

Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. This month he tackles the legendary Lone Wolf and Cub, an epic series that was originally published in North America by First Comics in 1987 and has more recently been […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adventures in the Floating World, Dark Horse, First Comics, Goseki Kojima, Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, manga

Adventures in the Floating World: 20th Century Boys Vol. 1

March 23, 2014 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

20th Century Boys, Logo

I’ve been reading and enjoying comics for most of my life, but one area I’ve never explored as much as I should has been Asian comics. Part of that is because when I was growing up, comic book stores did not stock much— or more frequently, any— Asian comics. True, they didn’t stock much in […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: 20th Century Boys, Adventures in the Floating World, comics, manga, Naoki Urasawa

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