Sometimes a picture can tell more than a thousand words. Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T+ audience. Having cheated death, Hikaru Hamura must save himself by using his artistic abilities to help others.

Genkaku Picasso, Vol. 2 (2)

Comics & Graphic Novels

FURUYA, Usamaru

Manga

VIZ Media, LLC

Sometimes a picture can tell more than a thousand words. Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T+ audience. Having cheated death, Hikaru Hamura must save himself by using his artistic abilities to help others. Final Volume!

Genkaku Picasso, Vol. 3 (3)

In this debut series, Usamaru Furuya takes on the ko-gal, that highly evolved teenage girl created by Japan's consumer culture. In this irreverent romp for fans of challenging comic art, Mariko becomes a strange bunny in the classroom. Zero Boy has an unhealthy obsession with Maria (who doesn't know he's alive), and Muku, an adorable Bigfoot, is the object of everyone's dreams.

Short Cuts, Vol. 1 (1)

Series Description: So just what is with this fascination for the Japanese teenage girl? We're talking about the extreme variant of her -- that highly evolved creature of Japan's frantically trendy consumer culture: the ko-gall And just what goes on inside a ko-gal's overstimulated mind? Short Cuts is a surreal illustrated journey into the ko-gal's world created by Usamaru Furuya, one of Japan's most esteemed avant-garde comic artists. In this second and final volume of his Short Cuts series, Furuya revisits the gallery of bizarre comic characters introduced in the first entry: classroom bunny Mariko, obsessive Zero Boy, and Bigfoot Muku, and stranger beings still. A treat for fans of the cutting edge of comics art, as well as anyone wanting to get current on the latest Tokyo fads, this volume contains a tsunami of surreal gags and teenage madness, all rendered in Furuya's trademark mixture of peerless art and innovative layouts.

Short Cuts, Vol. 2 (2)

About the Author\nUsamaru Furuya’s career began with the serialization of Palepoli in avant-garde manga magazine Garo in 1994. Since then he has continued to create a multitude of work, and his delicate art, dynamic style, and transcendent power of expression has attracted a cult following. Usumaru’s well-known works over the years include Lychee Light Club, Innocents Boys' Crusade, Suicide Club, Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High, Amane†Gymnasium, and Lunatic Circus. In addition, his manga 51 Ways to Save Her was the basis for the 2009 animated series Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.\nPirito is a utopia protected by the mechanical goddess Marie, who looms large as she orbits the skies above. Down in the factory town of Gil, Pipi's heart yearns for Kai, but as the only one who can hear Marie's ever-present music, will he be able to accept Pipi's affection? 
Delve into the beginnings of Usamaru Furuya's soaring fantastical worldview with this masterful, early work from the prolific creator who brought you Lychee Light Club, Genkaku Picasso, No Longer Human, and more! Now collected as one volume, The Music of Marie, a story of sublime love, will pluck at your heartstrings until the very end.

The Music of Marie

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

One Peace Books

Osamu Dazai's classic tale retold by Usamaru Furuya is now in a complete omnibus edition!\nNo Longer Human, the searing semi-autobiographical novel by Osamu Dazai, Japan’s Dostoevsky, trades its original prewar setting for the brave new world of the aught years in this adaptation by the enfant terrible of manga. This unique omnibus, previously available in three installments, features left-to-right (rather than “flipped”) art drawn by the creator himself for Western audiences. Find out how a self-described clown awakens to his dark genius.

No Longer Human Complete Edition (manga)

Dazai, Osamu

Vertical Comics

The Lychee Light Club is considered Usamaru Furuya's breakthrough work. Originally designed as an experiemental project Lychee's themes of youthful rebellion and deus ex machina destruction, and attractive designs eventually won over a new generation of readers and critics, leading the way for Furuya to take on his many recent high profile properties. In an abandoned warehouse, a band of nine students have assembled to plot out a new future. Their "leader" Zera is determined to cleanse his community of the ugly and cowardly. Having taken command of a band of young men to build him a god-like machine capable of changing the world. This machine, named "Lychee," will give them what they've been searching for...a beauty of the finest quality. A surreal yet touching horror comedy Furuya's Lychee Light Club that mixes elements of French Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol and with modern day pop culture tropes and is set in modern day Tokyo. Shocking, sexy and innovative, the Lychee Light Club is at the pinnacle of modern day Japanese seinen manga (young adult comics).

Lychee Light Club

La Croisade des Innocents T.1

IMHO

PALEPOLI

Graphic Novels

El club del suicidio

Milky Way Ediciones

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