Gone are the days of the non-grata manga , the Angoulême festival now welcomes Japanese comics with open arms, with the 2019 Grand Prix for the queen of the shôenen, Rumiko Takahashi, which is translated a year later by reissues by Urusei Yatsura - Lamu and Maison Ikkoku - Juliette je t'aime , but also always more guests and exhibitions (Inio Asano, Yukito Kishiro, Yoshiharu Tsuge), and of course awards (the price of the series for In the Abyss of Time and the Young Adults Prize for The Snow Tiger ). Publishers are all taking advantage of the event to release their biggest headlines, a selection of which is available in 20 Minutes .
"In the grip of silence"
If the manga has already addressed violence against women, no one seems to have done so like the author and designer Akane Torikai. Like a time bomb, En prie en silence follows the a priori normal daily life of Misuzu, a high school teacher. It is almost difficult to summarize the first volume, there is so little going on, even though a feeling of unhappiness, of leaden chappe, grows over the pages.
Quick review: This manga is a big slap and denounces a lot of facts about our current society: Sexism, gender equality or rape .. Hard but real subjects. We get to see each
points of view of the characters according to what they suffered .. To read! pic.twitter.com/i7Qon8qYDL
The truth will come to light itself, Misuzu has been raped by her best friend's boyfriend, and since then she (on) lives in denial of her femininity, loss of confidence and fear of men. His meeting with a student, also a victim, swayed his daily life, but not necessarily as the reader would expect. "The simple fact of living as a woman exposes me to the possibility that this kind of thing happens to me", "it is not what women have between their legs that terrorizes you, it is the fact that , in spite of you, you are a man ”… Between dull anger, right words, and terrible but banal reality, Akane Torikai makes us look the society straight in the eyes and inequalities.
Akane Torikai (Akata)
"Sengo"
From his drawing (old school) about him (the immediate post-war period), Sengo seems to be a manga from the 1960s and 1970s, the golden age of gekiga. However, its author Sansuke Yamada was born in 1972, and Sengo was published from 2013 to 2018, with the Osamu Tezuka prize in 2019. It is also that his portrait of a Japan defeated, destroyed, occupied, through two soldiers Coming back from the front, the good living Kadomatsu and the disenchanted Toku, has this timeless je ne sais quoi. Their daily life, made up of tricks, alcohol, despair, survival reminds as much that of the Tokyo Wanderer in the 1980s as that of the boarders of Maison Ikkoku in the 1990s.
Sengo , by Sansuke Yamada (Casterman)
"The strength of the series lies definitively in the complexity of the feelings that run through its characters" Sébastien Ludmann
SENGO by Sansuke Yamada - 2 volumes on January 29
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Illustration: AREYO HOSHIKUZU © YAMADA Sansuke 2014 / KADOKAWA CORPORATION pic.twitter.com/hwGmJ6Y4zL
"Stop Hibari Kun"
If manga outings are mostly new at the moment, France is doing a real job of discovery and history with the edition of classics, and labels ("Vintage" at Glénat, "Sensei" at Kana ...) or houses (Isan Manga, Black Box…) dedicated. Stop Hibari Kun at Le Lézard Noir is a fine example of this, a previously unknown and unexpected title from the essential Weekly Shônen Jump magazine.
For the third edition of the Konishi Prize for the translation of manga into French, the Grand Prize is awarded to “Stop !! Hibari-kun! ”By Hisashi Eguchi, translation by Aurélien Estager, editions Le Lézard Noir.https: //t.co/Yri1PEigOX pic.twitter.com/cRysepwgHl
- Konishi manga award (@KonishiManga) January 31, 2020Following the death of his mother, Kôsaku moved into the home of one of the latter's old acquaintances, Yakuza chief and father of four daughters. The young boy immediately falls in love with one of them, Hibari, a trans girl. Stop Hibari Kun dates back to the early 1980s, and was surprisingly transgressive and inclusive for the time, and for a magazine best known for celebrating courage, strength and manhood - but not only with a lot of romantic comedies.
If the manga goes on misunderstandings, gags and "of course" homophobic, transphobic and reaction reactions, it is never to the detriment of Hibari. On the contrary. She is beautiful, imperturbable, turns all heads, and it is the others, the men, who lose their means, ridicule themselves. Tsukasa Hojo will take up the same idea with Family Compo , currently reissued at Panini.
Stop Hibari Kun , by Hisashi Egushi (The Black Lizard)
"Asadora"
Guest of honor at the 2018 Angoulême festival, the mangaka Naoki Urawasa is back, in bookstores this time, with Asadora , a priori his new long series, after an anecdotal parenthesis at the Louvre ( The Sign of Dreams ). On the eve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the city is destroyed by a horned monster. Flashback: in 1959, Nagoya is on the way to a typhoon, and the young scorched head Asa runs to seek a doctor to help her mother who is about to give birth. The report ? Maybe this huge Godzilla-style footprint…
Naoki Urasawa is back with her new series: Asadora. Find the master of suspense behind "Monster", "Pluto", "Master Keaton" and follow the adventures of Asa, a determined and selfless girl!
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From his title wink to a 1960s soap opera in the overwhelming shadow of the kaiju , through his portrait of youth and his re-reading of the history of Japan, the author of 20th Century Boys is in conquered territory . But with a very mysterious first volume (too?) And closer to a first chapter, it is difficult to know whether he left for a Monster masterpiece or a Billy Bat wander.
Asadora , from Naoki Urasawa (Kana)
"The Quintessential Quintuplets"
Fûtarô, a brilliant but broke high school student, is offered a golden job: becoming the private teacher of a wealthy family. Except that he must take care of not one but five students, quintuplets! The Quintessential Quintuplets is the latest addition to what is called the "harem manga", titles where the hero, a double of the reader, finds himself in the midst of lots of pretty young girls. Here it is.
Popularized by Love Hina , the "harem manga" perpetuates the worst sexist clichés, under the guise of romantic comedy - from the start, we know that Fûtarô will marry one of the Nanako sisters but which one? The manga by Negi Haruba is not the worst of its kind (cuckoo World's End Harem), thanks to an impeccable design and slightly more worked female characters and personalities.
The Quintessential Quintuplets , by Negi Haruba (Pika)
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