This collection is often described as Fujiko F. Fujio’s “dark side” or “poison” — but the impression it leaves after a complete reading resists such tidy characterization. For this first installment, I’ve chosen it under the theme of Craft and Creativity — Fujiko F. Fujio’s Unusual Short Stories.. The
For this zeroth installment, I'd like to start with a novel. I've chosen this form deliberately — as an entry point, to make what follows easier to inhabit. I'll be introducing the Japanese novel Tigris and Euphrates by Motoko Arai as a story of "
My First Encounter with Manga The first manga I ever read was Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix [1]. At first, I was overwhelmed by the sheer density of information—something picture books simply don’t have. Yet before I knew it, I found myself reading Phoenix over and over again. I