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Yes, you read that right. Not a manga about hermaphrodites, but BY a hermaphrodite. I was browsing through the comics section of my local bookshop and found this:
It was the catchline on the cover that caught my eye. “Japan’s first hermaphrodite manga artist (intersex)”. Underneath that: “Manga artist Arai Sho takes a scalpel to [...] Where is Tokyo’s biggest manga shop?
Earlier this week I was taking photos in Ikebukuro for a story on manga. I asked around to try and find Tokyo’s largest manga shop but drew a complete blank. Shops seem to specialize in one particular demographic or sell second hand books. Anyway, for what it’s worth, here [...]
Urasawa Naoki, who’s probably the most popular manga artist in Japan, has just started a new series called Billy Bat.
I spent a good part of this year reading the 24 volumes (about 5000 pages) of his last manga 20th Century Boys in Japanese so I’m a little [...] |
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