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Title (English) COMICS UNDERGROUND JAPAN
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Fantasy Novel

Notes Comics Underground Japan,p.109. Notes:
A page from Suehiro Maruo's PLANET OF THE JAP.
The box says: "In the allied country of Germany, Hirohito's Youth are marching into Berlin."

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Manga author/artist (Various artists)
Date 1996
Publisher Blast Books
Edn. Language Eng
ISBN (review vol.)
Pages 223
Price $14.99
Size 18x25cm
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Synopsis Collection of radical alternative Japanese manga.
Review This a collection of short underground manga, translated into English. By 'underground' we mean subversive, small-press alternative material, from magazines that sell in tiny quantities by Japanese standards; thousands rather than millions. Absent are the romances, school stories, fantasy and science fiction that form the staples of mainstream manga. Instead we get biting satire directed against Japanese society. It's not hard to understand that such material is not widely popular in Japan's conformist society.
Be warned that this book, in its savage attack on Japanese society, contains explicit violence and sexual material to the levels notoriously found in other "adults only" Japanese manga, and may well shock less broadminded readers. If you don't want to read 'Mary's Asshole', or the gory and sadistic 'Planet of the Jap' then don't seek out this book.
That said, this book offers manga, and a view of Japanese society, that you won't get anywhere else. It's a blast to see Hanako Yamada's savagely misanthropic office girl, or the crazed militarists of 'Future Sperm Brazil' or the sociopathic salarymen of 'It's All Right if You Don't Understand'. Some of these stories were first published in the pioneering cult magazine GARO.
For a British equivalent, see MENG & ECKER (Savoy Books) by David Britton with art by Chris Guido; an awesomely nasty, obscene and offensive comic book that has a great deal to say about British society, and sets about lancing the boils with energy and irony. FOR MATURE ADULTS ONLY. More info
References Hell's Angel (Jigoku no Tenshi) Yoshikazu Ebisu
It's All Right if you don't Understand (Wakaranakuttemo daijobu) Yoshikazu Ebisu
Steel Pipe Melancholia (Tekkan mae o Yuutsu) Masakazu Toma
Future Sperm Brazil (Mirai Seishi Brazil) Takashi Nemoto
A Love like Lemons (Lemon no Koi) Carol Shimoda
Selfish Carol's Summer Vacation (Carol no Natsuysaumi) Carol Shimoda
Mercy Flesh (Jiniku) Kazuichi Hanawa
Don Quixote *1 & *2 (Yasuji no Don Quixote) Yasuji Tanioka
Planet of the Jap (Nihonjin no Wakusei) Suehiro Maruo
Mary's Asshole (Maria no Komon) Hanako Yamada
Volvox (Volvox) Pan Migiwa
Bigger and Better (Choo Oogata Yonkoma Manga Sonoichi) Muddy Wehara
Laughing Ball (Waraikorogashi) Hideshi Hino
Cat Noodle Soup (Nekojiruudon Tamashi no maki) Nekojiro and Hajime Yamano
 

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