Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of "The Push Man and Other Stories" and "Good-bye" has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, "A Drifting Life" is Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form.Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career.
A Drifting Life has finished publishing and it has 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: 劇画漂流, Gekiga Hyouryuu
Genres: Comedy , School Life , Historical , Slice of Life , Drama , Romance , Psychological
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Top 6 Manga Like A Drifting Life (Gekiga Hyouryuu) [2024 List]
6. Kakukaku Shikajika
High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She’s in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn’t care about manga one bit. But maybe this unconventional art teacher is just what she needs to realize her dreams!
Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist’s Journey has finished publishing and it has 34 Chapters. It is also Known as: かくかくしかじか, Kakukaku Shikajika
5. Gekiga Baka-tachi!!
Gekiga Fanatics is biographical manga about the creation of the gekiga genre in the the 50's by Takao Saito, Matsumoto Masahiko and Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Gekiga Baka-tachi!! has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 劇画バカたち!!, Gekiga Fanatics
4. Comic Showa-shi
A historical story using Ghosts to explain the life times of the reign of Emperor Hirohito.Showa-shi by Shigeru Mizuki, is volume (1) in the series.
It describes an era of upheaval and impoverishment in Japanese history, beginning with the Tokyo Earthquake of 1923, and covering the financial panic, the Great Depression, the March 15th Incident, and other events up until the Manchurian Incident (1931)
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Showa: A History of Japan has finished publishing and it has 119 Chapters. It is also Known as: コミック昭和史, Comic Showashi, Shouwa-Shi, A Comics History of the Showa Era
3. Comfortable and Happy
Comfortable and Happy has finished publishing and it has 15 Chapters. It is also Known as: 불편하고 행복하게, Bulpyeonhago Haengboghage
2. Tezuka Osamu Monogatari
This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka--Japan's "God of Manga"--looks at one of the twentieth century's great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecdotal study of the evolution of Japan's early manga and anime business and its heroes. A never-before-seen popular culture history of postwar Japan, it is sure to fascinate fans and anyone interested in manga, anime, and the potential of the graphic storytelling medium.
Tezuka Osamu Monogatari was published in English as The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime by Stone Bridge Press on July 19, 2016. The English edition was nominated for the 2017 Eisner Award in the "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" category. It was also in published in Brazilian Portuguese by Conrad from November 2003 to August 2004.
Tezuka Osamu Monogatari has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 手塚治虫物語, A Story of Osamu Tezuka
1. Gegege no Kakeibo
Gegege no Kakeibo has finished publishing and it has 36 Chapters. It is also Known as: ゲゲゲの家計簿, Gegege no Kakeibo
