Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics, heir to the legendary Garo. Published bi-monthly since 1998, the pages of Ax contain the most innovative, experimental, and personal works in contemporary manga -- the flourishing underground of the world’s largest comics industry. Now Top Shelf presents a 400-page collection of stories from ten years of Ax history, translated into English for the first time.
has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Drama , Psychological , Dementia
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3. B♭ no Sonata
Collection of short stories, many of which seem to have to do with copies/doppelgangers.
1. Monotorogy
2. Topologie
3. Nagaaaai Yoru
4. Pimple Pimple Little Star
5. To Love Again
6. Kotenteki Hatsumehin ni yoru Kotenteki Paradox no Pattern
7. Katei, Shiyuu Zaisan, Kokka no Kigen
8. Haru Random
9. "Boshizou"
10. Kontora Bass Dokusou ni Yoru Mubansou Sonata Hen Rochouchuo Andante
11. Tenraku no Ballade
12. Manatsu no Yoru no Masayume
13. Itoshi no Remy
14. Le Chateau
15. Zuisou
16. Communication Break Down?
17. Buta mo Ki kara Ochiru
18. Fukuyamanga Kyoushikyoku
19. Naive
20. Schizophrenia
B♭ no Sonata has finished publishing and it has 20 Chapters. It is also Known as: B♭のソナタ, Sonata in B-flat
2. AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga
Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics, heir to the legendary Garo. Published bi-monthly since 1998, the pages of Ax contain the most innovative, experimental, and personal works in contemporary manga -- the flourishing underground of the world’s largest comics industry. Now Top Shelf presents a 400-page collection of stories from ten years of Ax history, translated into English for the first time.
has finished publishing and it has 30 Chapters. It is also Known as: AX: A Collection of Alternative Manga
1. Shounen Shoujo
Shonen Shojo is an assamblage of Satoshi Fukushima's short stories. The only thing the 28 chapters really have in common is that they revolve around the relation between male and female, mainly boys and girls.
Each story experimates with completely new topics. There may be young musicians, football playing girls, aliens, popstars, samurai, yakuza, seniors or even caries bacteria.
Anyhow some of the stories are continued. What one could call the main story (because there is one episode in each volume) is telling of the girl Yoshiko who has pushed her friend into a deep fountain. Unfortunately this boy dies in this accident and Yoshiko now feels guilty towards the boy's younger brother Goro. In some time steps the reader is following their uncertain relationship.
Despite the name, Shonen Shojo is not a book for children. Often the stories end abruptly and leave a lot of space for interpretations.
has finished publishing and it has 28 Chapters. It is also Known as: 少年少女, Shonen Shojo
