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Interested in Manga?

 According to Forbidden Planet Inyternational:

The essential collection for every reader intrigued by manga, “The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga” continues to break new ground with this latest volume. Bursting with energy and imagination, it features the most exciting new work in 2007/08 by the brightest young talents in the manga field - comic strip stories and characters influenced or inspired by Japanese anime and manga, and now being produced worldwide.

This year’s collection is produced full colour throughout. Over 400 pages long, the anthology showcases more than 20 new stories, complete and unabridged - in every genre you can think of, and quite a few more besides. Action adventure, romance, angst ridden drama, super spy sci-fi, yaoi, pastoral parable, mythical horror, comedy opera, beating up big dragons, true-to-life drama, medieval fantasy, zombie horror, updated Chinese myth, hysterical, historical, romance, time-travel, manwha high fantasy, funny-animal - and sometimes all of it happening at once!Contributors include award-winning artists, as well a host of new talent. I’m not a huge manga fan but even I’ve been won over by the first two volumes of this excellent anthology, the success of which has encouraged the publisher to bring out more comics collections in the Mammoth Book series. If you are an otaku already you will love finding new creators in here (including some great home-grown talent), if you are new to manga then its a perfect jumping on point.

Constable Robinson, paperback, 448 pages, published November 2008

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