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Going through my unread comics and manga collections.

Last night I finished the 2025 print of Akira Volume 1: Tetsuo. What wasnt adapted to the anime film really adds another dimension to the story. Thr main difference is a Neo-Tokyo biker gang war that was in the film by Tetsuo saving a woman from other gang members (if I'm remembering correctly, it's been decades). I like the manga version better.

Next up is the Kamandi omnibus for some good old Jack Kirby.

Two hardcover books are pictured. On the left is Akira Volume 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo and on the right is Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! by Jack Kirby.
A page from Akira Volume 1 showing Japanese-to-English translations of the hand-drawn sound effects in the manga.

Finally read Kei Sanbe's Erased, a about a guy who can rewind time to avoid catastrophic events, usually just a couple of minutes.

However, he will somehow end up 18 years in the past when he was a kid, to try and stop a serial killer, save his classmates, and change his future.

Read the whole thing in a day!

Two kids, the boy says he wants to change the future
Kid in front of an ominous school
A time loop about to begin

It's been a while but I finally finished another !

by Yagi Norihiro, who also created before it

I enjoyed it a lot, I don't think I've checked any Japanese other than or .

It feels inspired by , and even.

It has bit of everything, and it was pretty awesome, a bit of a rushed ending, but a good one nonetheless!

Some cool panels (there's even cooler ones I don't wanna spoil)

Panel 1, a tribe of mythical beings similar to centaurs
Two young teenagers floating through the sky
A being similar to a bunny staring at a floating landmark

Aujourd'hui j'ai re-regardé Nausicaa de la vallée du vent, et j'ai un peu chiallé.

Mais du coup, j'ai vraiment envie d'aller voir plus loin, le manga original.

Question : Ne lisant pas le Japonais, mais lisant aussi bien le 🇫🇷 que l'🇬🇧 quelle traduction est la meilleure à lire ?

Le repouet vous protège des spores et de la pollution.

(Pas techniquement un )

sooooo I've caught up with Chainsaw Man . It's cool. I like Denji. Denji is like the idiot main character from the shonen genre, but he is a horny idiot. And it is very important.

I've come to like a lot CSM, but I think it is a mess. I like the devil/rule thing, but definitely Undead Unluck made it so much better, and by having this contrast I can finally get why Undead Unluck is so great.

But I like CSM. It's good. What should I read next?

Started reading ChainsawMan. I think I like this format way more than the , which is great, but has to subject to many anime tropes.

I just finished Reze's arc. I thought it was very well done, not so corny, with the raw style and narrative from the series. I think this makes the emotional bits hit harder.

Still, there's stuff that you see coming way earlier,but I guess the charm is how Fujimoto arrives there.