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I was delighted to get early access to Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography—especially because, selfishly, it meant there was time for me to add it to the reference section of my own stylebook! Thanks to Udon Entertainment and @mangasplaining.bsky.social for the sneak peek.

Giga Town Is Your Guidebook to the Visual Language of Mangatwincitiesgeek.com In Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography, mangaka Fumiyo Kouno goes through dozens of icons that accompany people and objects in manga.

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There’s nothing quite like the feeling when a manga you recommended gets in your hands as a real book! Behold the @udonentertainment.bsky.social / @mangasplaining.bsky.social edition of “Gigatown: A Guide to Manga Iconography” by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by Ko Ransom - coming Sept 9! #ALAAC24

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At last! Our next @mangasplaining release from @UdonEnt is available for pre-order! Gigatown: A Guide to Manga Iconography by Fumiyo Kouno (In This Corner of the World) explains commonly seen symbols of manga in charming 4-panel comics and will be in stores on Sept 3!

Looks like press copies are getting out there! So excited about this! :)

Mail Day! SEARCH AND DESTROY Vol. 1 by Atsushi Kaneko, based on Tezuka’s epic Dororo. Crazy excited to finally have our hands on the first @mangasplaining.bsky.social /Fantagraphics collaboration. It hits shelves on 7/23. Straight up essential book for your shelves.

...also not for nothing, don't really mind the comparisons to PLUTO either, like, "Yes, please."

Huge thanks to @screenrant.bsky.social for their coverage of SEARCH AND DESTROY by Atsushi Kaneko, and DORORO by Osamu Tezuka! You can check out their article here: screenrant.com/dororo-osamu...

Another Classic Osamu Tezuka Manga Gets the Pluto Treatmentscreenrant.com Fantagraphics brings Search and Destroy to English readers.

The print version of SEARCH AND DESTROY by Atsushi Kaneko is coming next month from Fantagraphics! We're so happy to see that @anitrendz.com ran a preview and story on the book! anitrendz.net/news/2024/06... @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Atsushi Kaneko’s Search & Destroy Dororo Manga Retelling Debuts on July 23anitrendz.net The first volume of Atsushi Kaneko’s Search & Destroy manga series will be published by Fantagraphics and MSX: Mangasplaining Extra for a release on July 23, 2024.

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Not our usual, but... @mangasplaining.bsky.social is AMAZING. If you're interested in the wider world of manga, I strongly encourage you to check out their site. For example, since it's Pride Month, check out gay manga creator Kazuhide Ichikawa's custom-drawn comic on his work.

FREE MANGA: Gay Doujinshi Q&A with Kaz!mangasplaining.substack.com The renowned Gay manga creator Kazuhide Ichikawa pulls back the curtain on gay manga in Japan!

And the good folks @gamesradarplus.bsky.social are running an exclusive preview of SEARCH AND DESTROY VOL. 1 by Atsushi Kaneko! Coming next month from @fantagraphics.bsky.social . Go check it out! www.gamesradar.com/comics/osamu...

Almost 60 years after it was first published, Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka's samurai manga classic Dororo is getting a cyberpunk makeoverwww.gamesradar.com Fantagraphics' Search & Destroy reinvents the iconic tale

According to Forbes, Chip and David are doing a comic together with Marcus To? And it's at @dstlry.bsky.social ? WOW. Think they'll run a house ad for us? www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

Chip Zdarsky Inks Four Series Deal With DSTLRY, Starting With Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Time Waits’www.forbes.com The co-creator of 'Sex Criminals' and current 'Batman' writer has big plans with his new publisher.

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Read the final chapter of my dystopian translation baby! Or even better: ditch work today and read the whole thing over from the start!

Today, we're proud to publish the final chapter of Akane Torikai's WANDERING CAT'S CAGE at mangasplainingextra.com. It's an unique, poignant manga, and SF that comments on today's society in the grandest tradition. Thank you for reading.

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Got Chip Zdarsky to draw the moment that made me laugh the hardest from my favorite @mangasplaining.bsky.social recommendation. He really knocked it out of the park! Read Cross Game and enjoy the Evil Interim-Principal for yourself!

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This chapter is a kick in the gut, every time I read it.

NEW MANGA: The 50+ page final chapter of Atsushi Kaneko's SEARCH AND DESTROY VOL 2 has just been published to mangasplainingextra.com for paid subscribers! #manga #atushikaneko

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good news, everyone! if you like the sound of my voice, the @mangasplaining.bsky.social podcast is back with our season 4 wrap-up! Final tally, from the show notes: 11 Seinen 5 Josei 4 Shonen 2 Shojo 2 Gekiga 2 BL 1 Manhwa www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-113-...

Mangasplaining Best of Season 4www.mangasplaining.com This week the Mangasplaining crew picks the Mangasplaining Best of Season 4. River's Edge! Goodnight Pun Pun! Yakuza's Bias! Even Though We're Adults! AND MORE!

NEW EPISODE! And we're recapping Season 4 in case you forgot? Ep. 113: THE BEAT OF SEASON 4! Available now at Mangasplaining.com or wherever you get your podcasts!

Episodes & Show Notes, Mangasplainingmangasplaining.com .

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Incredibly proud that Okinawa by Susumu Higa fr @mangasplaining.bsky.social & @fantagraphics.bsky.social was recognized by NCTAsia Freeman Book Awards as a notable read for 2023. The Freeman Awards honors “East & Southeast Asian Titles for Children and Young Adults”- www.nctasia.org/awards/

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Love it! here's the print version of the feature on the team behind @fantagraphics.bsky.social / @mangasplaining.bsky.social 's English edition of "Search & Destroy" by Atsushi Kaneko w/ @benapplegate.com, Eric Reynolds, Phil Christie & Christopher Woodrow-Butcher in the Apr. 29 issue of PW

NEW MANGA! The penultimate chapter of Akane Torikai's WANDERING CAT'S CAGE is now available at MangasplainingExtra.com.

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Also big ups to translator @benapplegate.com and letterer Phil Christie for their top-notch work to make this English edition of “Search and Destroy” retain the visual and storytelling impact of the original Japanese edition. Pre-order: www.fantagraphics.com/products/sea...

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Big thanks to @fantagraphics.bsky.social for supporting @mangasplaining.bsky.social’s serialization of“Search & Destroy” with this top-notch print edition (french folds!) and Tezuka Productions for helping us license this astonishing sci-fi, gender-bent re-imagining of Osamu Tezuka’s “Dororo”

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So exciting!! Got my hands on one of the early print copies of “Search & Destroy” by Atsushi Kaneko - our 2nd @mangasplaining.bsky.social extra book in print from @fantagraphics.bsky.social - preorder now! www.fantagraphics.com/products/sea...

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PSA for BL fans!! Bower's Museum in Santa Ana, CA has an Asian Comics exhibition right now that features both Nakamura Asumiko and est em! www.bowers.org/index.php/cu...

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Russian Subway Dogs for PS4 is getting a physical release from Limited Run Games! Pre-order's start this Friday (April 5th)! limitedrungames.com/products/lim...

Our next MSX: Mangasplaining Extra title is SEARCH AND DESTROY VOLUME 1 by Atsushi Kaneko, based on DORORO by Osamu Tezuka, and it's coming soon! We just got a STARRED REVIEW on it from Library Journal and we're thrilled! Pre-orders are open everywhere! www.libraryjournal.com/review/searc...

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beyond thrilled that our 2nd @mangasplaining.bsky.social extra / @fantagraphics.bsky.social manga release, Search & Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko got a starred review from Library Journal ! www.libraryjournal.com/review/searc...

This looks super-fun.

Today on Okazu – Mr. Right Turned Out To Be A Younger Woman!? Guest Review by Em Evergreeen Yuri creator Kozumi Miura’s work is out in English from Renta! and Em thinks it’s absolutely worth signing up for another service to read it. okazu.yuricon.com/2024/03/20/m...

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I love Search and Destroy because it's not a simple "robots vs. humans" narrative. There are powerful and powerless humans and robots. Class is a separate and ever-present theme, which frees up the robot/human distinction so it can serve as a metaphor for other societal divisions.

NEW MANGA! We're back this week with the EXPLOSIVE Chapter 11 of Atsushi Kaneko's SEARCH AND DESTROY! It's a whopping 40 pages, so the free preview is longer than usual to! Go check it out at mangasplainingextra.com!