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"'Applying the winning Best New formula to the exponentially popular field of manga. Well worth adding to your burgeoning manga section.' Publishing News 'An energetic and varied display of cartooning from creators whose work ranges from promising to polished.' www.comicworldnews.com 'An attractive introduction to the particular tradition it represents.' Times Literary Supplement 'A fantastic collection of original and exciting comics... Over 500 pages of material, almost all of which is really very good, and some of which is utterly superb. I thoroughly recommend it.' www.puritybrown.blogspot.com"
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This title offers the essential collection for every manga fan - the latest inspirational new manga. Here is the second volume of the world's premier annual showcase of international manga. Bursting with energy and imagination, the collection features the most exciting new work by the brightest young talents in the field. Over 500 pages long, the anthology showcases more than twenty new stories, complete and unabridged - in every genre you can think of, and quite a few more besides. True-to-life drama, sci-fi parable, medieval fantasy, updated Chinese myth, historical, romance, time-travel, comedy, horror, funny animal and sometimes all of it happening at once! Many expand on the limited popular conception of 'bigeyed' manga in original and unexpected ways - homegrown stories that speak directly to western audiences.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I don't mean to be rude to the authors but this should be called "Worst Imitations of Manga"
25 Mar 2010
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I am quite a big fan of anime and manga now, but this was the first book of manga I went out and bought, thinking that it would be a perfect first buy since it was a collection of "Best New Manga". Anyway I was wrong. This book contains a couple of short stories written by foreign artists (by this I mean artists not living in Japan). I know it may sound strange but to me a huge part of why manga is so amazing and different is due to the Japanese culture. These stories attempt to imitate the common themes in manga in a foreign setting. They are cheesy and obvious, there is one good story in here about a man falling in love with another man. But to be fair don't waste your money. Go out an buy; Monster, School Rumble, Yotsuba&, millenium Actress! or something like that. Trust ME and not the author and editor who (unsurprisingly) gave this book 5 stars!!!
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Statement of interest: I edited this volume. Read the product description given here, or take up the offer to "look inside". No-one can complain that they have been sold a pup (it offends me deeply that someone should go on here to say so). Or look through it in a shop before you buy - presumably you'll buy a book because you like the look of it, not because of what you imagine it to commodify! This series of three volumes was expressly "designed to be a rolling showcase of international talent" - including, but not limited to, Japan. From Africa to Indonesia and beyond, manga has become a global phenomenon, and the point and purview of BNM was to reflect that. This volume alone features the work of winners of the International Manga and Anime Festival, Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga, and the UK Japanese Embassy's Manga Jiman competition (now in its fourth year). The form of manga is itself a hybrid, as any cursory consideration of its history (and present reality) will show. For its influence to span the globe and to not be itself transformed by that, would make manga something inert and dead - which it most assuredly isn't. The fixations of fan mentality would limit us to endless replication of the tropes of shojo and shonen, with their pretty girls and prettier boys, the big eyes and short skirts, the teen genre iterations of what is, ladies and gentlemen, an entire medium. And our ideas of what is possible can't be limited by the relatively little manga and anime that get-rich-quick publishers have chosen to import. Even so, if you want to try authentic Japanese manga, read Tatsumi's A DRIFTING LIFE, Tanaka's GON, Koike and Kojima's LONE WOLF AND CUB, and so many more. Or, if you want the wider picture of the international scene, or just a bloody good read, try one of these volumes of BNM. Either way, take a look around, and make a choice for yourself what you want to read. But please don't limit what is possible by the awkward definition of others. There's just so much more to it.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Really enjoyed this collection. Big manga fan. Very refreshing to see what comes from outside Japan. Buy this and escape...
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