 | Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics by Frederik L. Schodt
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.73 A wonderful introduction into the world of manga
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 | Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga by Frederik L. Schodt
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $3.37 The equally informative sequel
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 | Comics Underground -- Japan: A Manga Anthology
Buy used from: $21.00 A wonderful overview of the underground
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 | Secret Comics Japan: Underground Comics Now by Chikao Shiratori
Buy used from: $24.00 A more modern version of the previous book...
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 | Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show by Suehiro Maruo
Buy used from: $34.99 Dark, disturbing, and artfully rendered.
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 | Mai The Psychic Girl: Perfect Collection (Volume 2) by Kazuya Kudo
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.45 Epic esper adventure, once considered by Tim Burton for a film (with Winona Ryder as Mai)!
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 | Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.99 Otomo's epic, available again through Dark Horse
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 | Lum: Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi
Buy used from: $3.30 Rumiko Takahashi's charming out of this world comdey. All Takahashi is necessary.
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 | Maison Ikkoku, Volume 1 by Rumiko Takahashi
Buy used from: $0.26 More Takahashi romance--addictive!
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| Four Shojo Stories by Moto Hagio
Buy used from: $32.95 A wonderful collection of the shojo style.
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 | Black Jack, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezuka
Buy used from: $2.99 Manga god Tezuka's super-surgeon. Oddly enthralling...
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 | Black Jack, Vol. 2: Two-Fisted Surgeon by Osamu Tezuka
Buy used from: $2.22 More of the same...
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 | Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Buy used from: $1.98 Modern biological horror! Great series!
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 | Portrait of a Killer: Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike
Buy used from: $1.29 Amazing Ikegami--try to find the equally entertaining movie adaptation!
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