"Spy X Family", "Tokyo Tarareba Girls" ... The manga in all its forms

“Spy X Family” and “Tokyo Tarareba Girls”, two examples of the richness of the manga season 2020 -

Already in normal times, the manga season is busy, but with the health crisis, the closing and fortunately reopening of bookstores and consequently the postponement of many large releases, the market is close to saturation in September.

As more and more often elsewhere, the aficionado reader will not complain, but we will have to sort, prioritize purchases, between events (the shônen

), confirmations (the mangaka Akiko Higashimura), the fantastic all-comer (demons, spiders, superheroes ...) and the editorial work around authors (Rumiko Takahashi, Naoki Urasawa) or collections, as so many new entry points into an ever richer manga universe.

The “Spy X Family” shônen event

It's the back-to-school manga event.

And who says manga event, usually says shônen event.

With the end of

in full glory and the cancellation of Act-Age following the arrest of its author, the battle for the shônen is revived, and

is a serious contender for the throne.

Success of the moment in Japan and at the heart of auctions in France (publisher Kurokawa won), this title by Tatsuya Endo, available this Thursday, features Twilight, the world's greatest spy, who for his new mission must create a family from scratch.

# New - You were waiting for them, they are finally here!

#SPYxFAMILY pic.twitter.com/H49Fyz0P0M

- Kurokawa Editions 💥 (@Kurokawa) September 10, 2020

He thus adopts a little girl, Anya, and marries the shy Yor, without suspecting that they are respectively telepath and hired killer.

A postulate to

and

, with its share of missions, misunderstandings and of course family spirit.

The first exhibition volume is not revolutionary but shows promise for the future… Bond, my dog ​​is Bond!

Fantasy do you want some here

This is nothing new, fantasy fans of all kinds have a lot to do with manga production.

Each month, its new titles, its many sequels.

But this new school year is particularly full of proposals, like the most original,

(Pika), who sees a high school student reincarnated as a little spider in a hostile universe.

Pure

, a genre in its own right where characters are thrown or trapped in a parallel universe, here, close to a video game.

[SO I'M A SPIDER, SO WHAT?]

🕷️ Watch out, spiders are invading bookstores !!!!!!!!

🕸️ We received the acrylic standee keyrings in our offices and the spiders stormed our manga and our desks!

🕷️ Available September 2, 2020!

pic.twitter.com/cg38dA1LgF

- Pika Edition (@pikaedition) August 31, 2020

More traditional,

(Ki-oon),

(H2T),

(Akata),

(nobi nobi) invoke divine spirits, demons, dragons, magic ... with sometimes that little side step that makes the difference, like 

(Doki Doki) ​​and his very very (too?) careful hero.

Akiko Higashimura and her "

 Tokyo Tarareba Girls 

"

Already well known for her powerful trait and her female characters who are just as much (from the otakus of

to the samurai of

, awarded in Angoulême), the mangaka Akiko Higashimura is experiencing a double topicality in this literary season. 

is a

and compelling portrayal of single thirty-something in Tokyo, and by extension of Japanese society, while

(Akata) is a fictionalized but formidable autobiography on its beginnings. of designer, then convinced of her genius and that an arts teacher will bring back to reality, to work, to sacrifice.

An essential double reading.

#tokyotararebagirls Based on anecdotes gleaned from his single friends, the indomitable #akikohigashimura sketches with joyful ferocity the neuroses and through his generation.

First flight.

available at your bookseller.

Trad.

@MiyakoSlocombe @higashimura_a @hmLivres pic.twitter.com/TfHCb8TJo7

- Ⓛⓔⓩⓐⓡⓓ ⓝⓞⓘⓡ (@lezardnoir) September 3, 2020

"Life", or adult life told in manga

The Work of Akiko Higashimura offers a perfect transition to evoke the “Life” collection of Kana editions.

The initiative is interesting.

The manga offer is such in France that a new, transversal editorial work, beyond the traditional shônen / shôjo / seinen classification, is welcome.

Based on this observation, the “Life” collection offers to explore the different aspects of adult life, love, work, family, colleagues… with different points of view. 

Kinoko Higurashi's

recounts the daily life of a 10-year-old couple, and the social pressure they undergo to get married, from their two points of view, from one chapter to another.

Don't miss the first volume of "Just Not Married" which has just been released!

This is the first series in our Life collection 🔥

Read chapters 1 & 2 for free ⬇️https: //t.co/AschVQDlVU pic.twitter.com/3OkpModGLU

- Editions Kana (@EditionsKana) May 19, 2020

First job, New Life

by Yoko Nemu explores the first steps of a young woman in business, and

by Daishiro Kawakami the awkwardness of the game of seduction.

This last title will be available on September 18, the others are already in bookstores, and we are impatiently awaiting

which marks the return of Mari Okazaki, the queen of skin-

feelings (

).

Note that the publisher Delcourt / Tonkam also offers an editorialization of its catalog with the “Moon Light” collection and titles full of emotions (

…).

Rumiko Takahashi and Naoki Urasawa, two legends in the spotlight

No need to present them anymore.

Rumiko Takahashi and Naoki Urasawa are two manga legends, honored at the Angoulême festival and well represented in bookstores.

Indeed, all their works are available in French.

Almost all of them.

The work of editing, and re-editing, of Rumiko Takahashi undoubtedly enjoys his Grand Prix at Angoulême in 2019, with, after

and 

, the Perfect Edition of his masterpiece 

alias

(Delcourt / Tonkam) and the novelty

(Glénat), not so “new” since the author takes up her successful formula, a little on automatic pilot.

The "queen of manga" even has the right on September 18 to a biography signed Pauline Croquet published by Pix'N Love.

Naoki Urasawa is also doing what he knows best now with

, a new

puzzle thriller

(soon to be reissued on Panini), but Kana fills a big gap by editing - finally -

named after his heroine future judo champion and the series that revealed her in Japan.

Between sports manga and romantic comedy, the mangaka thwarts the expectations of the public of the time, the 1980s, and stands out as a king of storytelling and suspense.

The proof also with the collection of short stories

, still at Kana's, and he also on September 25.

Culture

Naoki Urasawa in Angoulême: “Can manga change the world?

Tezuka changed mine "

Culture

"Demon Slayer", "Jujutsu Kaisen", "Act-age" ... Who to dethrone "One Piece" and become the new king of manga?

• Literature

• Japan

• BD

• Manga

• Culture