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Tokyo These Days Vol. 3 wraps up the series and leaves us contemplating the whole thing

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn’t done with him.

Believing in the future of manga while never forgetting its past, Shiozawa accompanies manga creators once again through their agony to create an ultimate manga project. Is there ever joy in creation?

Story: Taiyo Matsumoto
Art: Taiyo Matsumoto

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Tokyo These Days Vol. 2 continues the fantastic drama focused on the manga industry

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn’t done with him.

Shiozawa forges ahead with an independently published manga project. But the manga creators around him are crumbling into chaos–Chosaku drinks himself into ever less productivity over worries about his career and family, a longtime creator can’t discern the difference between fiction and fantasy, and Aoki disappears rather than face the deadlines for his new hit series. Sometimes, the simple pleasure of an apple is worth more than all the fame and toil of making manga.

Story: Taiyo Matsumoto
Art: Taiyo Matsumoto

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Tokyo These Days Vol. 1 is an interesting story about legacy and the world of manga

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn’t done with him.

On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he’s ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself.

Story: Taiyo Matsumoto
Art: Taiyo Matsumoto

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Tokyo These Days Vol. 1

The weekend is almost here! What geeky things are you all doing? Sound off in the comments below! While you wait for the weekend to begin, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

CBR – Sony’s New Spider-Verse Short Film Gets YouTube Release Date – Cool.

The Mary Sue – ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Is More Than Just Supernatural Hijinks – Who else is excited for this?

Reviews

The Beat – Tokyo These Days Vol. 1
The Beat – WcDonalds the Manga Vol. 4

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Origin Vol. 2

Wednesdays (and Tuesdays) are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this week.

Avengers Twilight #1 (Marvel) – How do you assemble Avengers in a world that doesn’t want them? The concept sounds interesting in today’s world.

Cable #1 (Marvel) – With all of the time travel shenanigans in the X-world lately, the concept of Cable has been… confusing. So, we’ll see if this makes it any easier to comprehend.

Cobra Commander #1 (Skybound) – We’ve read the first issue and it’s amazing. If you’re a G.I. Joe fan, this is a must. A hell of a debut and direction.

The Deviant #3 (Image Comics) – The series has been amazing horror. If you like Silence of the Lambs, this is a can’t miss.

G.I Joe: A Real American Hero #303 (Skybound) – From the description, it sounds like the Joes, Serpentor Khan, and Cobra are all going to clash in Springfield!

John Constantine: Dead in America #1 (DC Comics) – John Constantine has cheated death once again—but his heart’s not beating, his body is decaying, and he, his friend Nat, and his son Noah are on the run in America, wanted for murder.

Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong #4 (DC Comics) – The series has been silly fun and we expect more of it. Let’s face it, the Justice League punching kaiju is what we really want and this delivers.

Origin Vol. 2 (Vertical Comics) – From Boichi, robots with high-level AI, who will kill to survive, live among us. The first volume was awesome and we’re hoping for more of the great action.

Tokyo These Days Vol. 1 (Viz Media) – It sounds like an intriguing manga about creating manga, editing, art, like, and Tokyo.