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  1. TNL Comic / Manga Club: Naoki Urasawa's Monster

    This one has no underaged suggested porn, dolls, or even cute things. Surprise, surprise. Instead, it's a well written and illustrated manga filled with MYSTERY! INTRIGUE! and all that nonsense. It's a good read and a good beginning to a long series.



    From the back-
    An ice-cold killer is on the loose, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracies, serial murders, and a scathing indictment of hospital politics are all masterfully woven together in this compelling manga thriller. Tenma risks his promising medical career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. Unbeknownst to him, this child is destined for a terrible fate. Who could have known that Tenma would create a monster!
    And... it's a lot better than the back of the book description would have you believe. Interestingly enough, there's a live-action film version being produced in the U.S. for 2007.

    It's listed as a pre-order on Amazon, but there are already used copies and my Barnes and Nobles had plenty. It should be around. There was also a fan translation that might still be floating around on the internet.

    Stuff from Viz-

    From the Publisher
    � An 18-volume manga series�over 20MM copies sold to date in Japan!
    � Individual volume releases consistently ranked in the Top Ten sales charts for 2-3 weeks.
    � Awarded the 3rd Osamu Tezuka Culture Awards' Manga Grand Prix, the 1st Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award of Excellence, and the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award.
    � Inspired anime, music, and trade book spin-offs.
    � To mark the end of the series, an 18-volume box set was released in Japan in June 2002.
    � From the creator of 20TH CENTURY BOYS and YAWARA.
    Anyone who's familiar with the Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atom series should pay attention. Urasawa's apparently a huge Tezuka fan, comparing him to Shakespeare and what-not. There are a few nods to Astro Boy in Monster, and to Black Jack in Master Keaton. See if you can find them!

    Naoki Urasawa is pretty prolific, writing and illustrating huge, multi-volume stories, sometimes more than one at a time. Even so, very few have been released in the U.S. Pineapple Army was released in the late 80's by Viz, and the animated version of Master Keaton was released by Geneon a few years ago. He was the the illustrator for the manga releases of both, not the writer.
    Hopefully the release of Monster will open up the doors for more Urasawa manga. 20th Century Boys, his second most recent work, has also been aquired by Viz, though Urasawa himself requested 20th Century Boys be delayed until Monster's finished. That leaves another 17 volumes before we see it. It'd be reeeally nice to see the manga version of Master Keaton in the mean time... Pleeease...
    Currently he's working on a retelling of the Pluto story from the Astro Boy series, titled... uh, Pluto.

    A good read about Urasawa-
    http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-...507300137.html

    Again, it's on the shelves, but there's possibly a fan translation floating around.
    Donk

  2. Nice, I've wanted to read this for awhile.

  3. I'll be on the lookout for it.

  4. I read a few chapters of Monster a long time ago and I couldn't really get into it. I think I might have quit before it really took off, but I got tired of waiting for things to kick in.

    I loooove loooooove looooove 20th century boys though. Its a crying shame its gonna be so long before it comes out here. I've read a bit of pluto, but I need to go back and read it again.

  5. Yeah, it takes a few chapters, but it does pick up, and it picks up gooooood.
    Donk

  6. i can't find any manga but the monster t.v series has been nothing, but amazing.

  7. I've been trying to find a copy of this series. I absolutely love 20th Century Boys. Anything by Urusawa must be good.

  8. I already picked this up the other week good stuff. I've watched a good chunk of the tv series too.

  9. D: BOO. No one else?

    So... Does anyone read enough Tezuka that they'd care about the similarities between Urasawa's work and Tezuka's work?
    Donk

  10. Similarities? Isn't Pluto a joint effort from the two?

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