Post by @ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social

2026-05-25 16:35 UTC

#MangaMonday 110 “Confession” by Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Story) & Kaiji Kawaguchi (Art) Ishikura confesses to Asai that he murdered Sayuri. The two of them are lost in a snowstorm while attempting to scale Mt. Owari. It’s something both of them have done several times as part of a larger group—the murder occurred on one such expedition—but this time the elements combined with Ishikura’s broken leg mean that his is a deathbed confession. Then Asai discovers that the way station cabin they had been searching for is nearby. Ishikura’s life is saved, but the confession hangs heavily between the both of them. This is a psychological thriller #manga, reminiscent of pre-code EC #comics. It’s a nicely compact story, at only 300 pages. It was first serialized in 1998, but due to the setting the only tell is the style of the cell phones. This English edition (Kodansha) came out in 2024, coincidentally the same year it was adapted as a live-action Japanese #film. #Confession

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@ChurchHatesTucker@mefi.social 2026-06-01 15:08

#MangaMonday 111 “The Swamp” by Yoshiharu Tsuge Tsuge is one of those artists who was influential when manga was becoming #manga. He got started in the postwar rental book market (think DVD rentals, but for books (ask your parents about DVD rentals.)) When that market started to dry up he was recruited by the seminal “Garo” magazine—literally. Nobody on staff knew how to contact him so they put a notice in the magazine asking him to get in touch. This volume (Drawn & Quarterly, 2020) collects eleven of his stories from that period. (Technically they’re all from “Garo,” but four of them were redraws of his earlier works.) Series editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa contributes a fifteen page afterwards that alone is worth the price of admission. It’s an interesting collection that shows inklings of Tsuge’s later, more influential, work. “Chirpy” is probably closest to that, but it falls in the middle of this (temporally arranged) volume. #TheSwamp

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