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As an anecdote on any voyage, three enigmatic protagonists seek for a fourth character in an environment in which even the most everyday action (watching TV, fishing, sleeping, taking a taxi) will turn strange. A place to discover and decipher characters. These are the components of this visual adventure that is called Iceland.

You've never seen manga like this before! No annoying speed lines or sappy, neotenic eyeballs here — just pure Japanese counterculture. This anthology of contemporary underground comics from Japan features a wide variety of styles and topics ranging from the humorous to the profound. There's a whole world of comics out there, and it's not all Godzilla and schoolgirls! A great introduction to the other Japanese comics featuring Asia's answers to Robert Crumb, Dan Clowes, and Chester Brown! List of included Oneshots: "Horse Horse Tiger Tiger" by Imiri Sakabashira "A Hooker's Room" by Naoto Yamakawa "Kisses" by Kiriko Nananan "Kitty Court Drama" by Nekojiru "What a Mixed Up World!" by Yasuji Tanioka "Million Dollars" by Yoshiharu Mitsumoto "The Abalone Cat" by Naoki and Shunichi Karasawa. (Source: MU)

Kazuhiro finds in his bed a body of a middle aged man. He decides to get rid of the questions arising in his head by disposing of the body.

1. Jigoku ni Ochita Kyoushi-domo 2. Katte ni Shiyagare 3. Shigoto Fuukei 4. Tsukareru Shain-tachi 5. Ai no Arashi 6. Chounouryoku 7. Mayonaka no Party 8. Jinginaki Tatakai 9. Jigoku no Salaryman

A reissue of Atomic? with previously uncollected stories: 1-10. Tattoo Girl(s) 11. Fuck Forever

Yuichi Yokoyama makes comics in a unique language situated somewhere between the primal drives of William Blake and the elegant geometries of Sol Lewitt—they are works of philosophical complexity and stunning visual power, of which he has said, "I'm not trying to write stories that are set in the future, but rather to write stories which are delivered from references to any given epoch or time. If the history of the world had turned out differently from what we know today, men would live according to different sets of values and different aesthetics It would be a civilization completely alien to ours." This first U.S. book on Yokoyama's work combines two of the artist's central themes: fighting and building. One set of graphic stories, Public Works, details massive structures being erected across a landscape. Plot is pushed aside in favor of sheer formal verve as we watch buildings, about which we know nothing, come into being. The other set of stories, Combats, is one sequence after another of elegantly choreographed battles. Manga comics have never seen a talent that combines this level of formal ambition with such exquisitely drawn depictions of fashion, art and architecture. (Source: PictureBox)

Set in the 60s, at the height of both Japan's post-war economic boom, and the protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty. In the midst of revolutionary underground Tokyo subcultures, such as avant-garde theater and the folk movement, a high school boy named Miguel Mizuki attempts to become a manga creator. (Source: ANN, edited)

A new collection of exhilarating adventure by the king of underground manga! "Bark at the moon", the tale of a terrorist stealing a mysterious liquid from a passenger; "Highway Romantic Vs. Sodomy Diner", evil picture of an American village hiding behind the veil of a peaceful routine a reality made of assassins and crazy men; "The Drifter", the tale of an uneven alien invasion; "Dead Skater", dark story of a crazy violent kid and a crazy scientist; "The Workers of Hamano Factory", a X-files like short story, filled to the top by mysterious objects and human-like aliens; last but not the least, "Dong!", the tale of a war for power inside a Mafioso family! If you think that "manga" only means "Goldrake" or "Dragon Ball", get ready for a shocking read!

1. Jikan 2. Miniskirt 3. Nikibi 4. Tobikomase 5. Mimizu Senbiki 6. Rikusen Butai wo Tatake 7. Shikaiin nite 8. Senro 9. Mask 10. Sonzaikan no Nasa Senshuken 11. Manin Densha 12. Ningyohime 13. Toilet Paper 14. Nimotsu 15. Kouzu 16. Toshi to Infrastructure 17. Sukima Sangyou 18. Nagaredama 19. Puzzle 20. Zaseki 21. Sekai no Shinjitsu 22. Kabe 23. Hyakunin Isshu 24. Button 25. Tekubi 26. Ireba 27. Nezumi 28. Tsuma no Negai 29. Fukurokouji 30. Trouble 31. Keshigomu 32. Nichijouteki Hinichijou

1. Chikunou Sandai 2. Shoku no Tankyuusha 3. Ahoudori 4. Hakuchou no Mizuumi 5. Taboo 6. Dream Island

Follow Manbo, Chinbo and Chonbo as they are flung into a strange, psychedelic world of madness they don't understand. See them cause chaos through their zany, unpredictable antics in this comical take on cultural imperialism.

Nana was raised by robots, and is now a research student living with Hachitsu, a gifted scientist also raised by robots. One day, Hachitsu collapses from a disease. In order to gain the time to develop a cure to save him, Nana proposes they place him in cold sleep. Hachitsu goes to sleep, leaving behind the clones that he created to help Nana. When he wakes up decades later, Hachitsu finds Nana grown into an old lady and yet more clones. Hachitsu is saved by a surgery, but the elderly Nana seems to be nearing the end of her days. While Hachitsu slept, a war had broken out and devastated the world, and robots and AI who had been turned into weapons had started hating humanity. Nana devoted the rest of her life to creating robots to clean up the earth. She had a dream that humans and AI would be able to reconcile. As she lay on her sickbed, Hachitsu and the clones vowed to carry on her dying wish... (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

1. Atomic? 2. Cosmic? 3. Satanic? 4. Logic? 5. Smile For Me 6. No 7. The Land of God 8. Super Bonbon

When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake. (Source: Vintage Books)

“Metaist”—one who knows that the world exists inside of a manga. And I am this world's sole metaist. (Source: MANGA Plus)

1. Seishun Musebinaki 2. Go Go Mukoumizu 3. Makezugirai no Gyakushuu 4. Mama to Yobarete Sankagetsu (Three Months Since You Called Me Mama) 5. Teisou no Hikari 6. Otoko no Machikado 7. Namida no Naka no Junjou 8. Zoku Namida no Naka no Junjou 9. Ittetsu no Ongaeshi 10. Dolphin 11. Tsupari no Hatsukoi 12. Hanahiraku Katei Tengoku

1. Ryuujin Shou 2. Tokutomi Juukou no Shi (The Death of Tokutomi Juko) 3. Muou no Rigyo 4. Tsuma no Ikotsu [Story: Fujieda Shizuo] 5-7. Rinshou [Story: Umezaki Haruo] 8. Akatsuka Fujio no Koro 9. Saki ga Mienai 10. Nishishinjuku Gochoume no Share House de Oretacha Heiwa da ze 11. Usuyuki 12. Discord 13. Fuyu no Ikebukuro, Gogo 5-ji kara 6-ji made 14. Denwa, Suimin, Ongaku (Telephone, Sleep, Music)

Yokoyama's comics are entirely unique: free from the traditional modes of narrative, his work explores motion, sound and structure, generating striking, beautifully graphic stories that propel the reader into a world of onomatopoeia, speed, and visual noise. Collecting 39 short pieces, each drawn with bright markers, Baby Boom uses polychromy in symbolic and rhythmic ways to create a musical, visually extraordinary experience. (Source: Breakdown Press)

Included one-shots: In the Kuso Soup, Deadly Weapons

Nonona-chan's friend, Nunone-chan, is a slightly unusual girl. She uses pig meat and organs, which she always carries around with her, to express her pure love for Nonona-chan. Nonona-chan likes Nunone-chan, but doesn't like pig meat and organs. One day, Nonona-chan avoided her at school, and... (Source: GOT, translated)

1-3. Ningen Ijou 4. Godzilla 5. Return of the Godzilla 6. Sandaikaijuu: Chikyuu Saidai no Kessen 7. All Kaijuu Daishingeki 8. Ikyou 9. Hanran

1. Kanata e 2. Juunin 3. Mudai 4. Ri-san Ichizoku