Kosaku Shima, the ever-popular character from the Kosaku Shima series, was named the Deputy Governor of Saga Prefecture. And his secretary is his biggest fan.
KYOTO Manga fans wanting to keep the buzz going after visiting the Kyoto International Manga Museum here should head for the coffee shop across the street.
The short anthology MANGA Day to Day is a collection of reflections by 109 manga artists on how the onset of the coronavirus pandemic quickly changed daily life as we know it.
The artists collectively inked the first 100 days of the unremitting health crisis in Japan, beginning in April 2020.
The cartoonists span genres and generations, including the likes of Tetsuya Chiba, famous for his boxing manga Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow s Joe), and Moyoco Anno, the creator of “Sugar Sugar Rune.”
The project started after Kodansha Ltd. began publishing a similar series of stories and essays by 100 writers on its literary website in May last year.
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