‘Manga’ Archives
Touch: Miss Lonely Yesterday & Cross Road
The Touch manga finished on an ambivalent note, as is customary for an Adachi series. Yes, Tatsuya declared his love to Minami, but they weren't really an item. So there was room for a sequel, and I was certainly curious to peek into their lives down the line. Luckily in 1998 they produced a TV movie called Miss Lovely Yesterday, taking place 5 [...]
Touch
Touch is Mitsuru Adachi's best known manga series. The one that really gave him popularity. It's definitely the one that put Adachi on my radar, many years ago when I first watched the Italian version of the anime. Unfortunately they changed all the names to Italian names, and the title became "Prendi il mondo a vai" (literally "Take the world [...]
Miyuki
Miyuki is the first of Mitsuru Adachi's long form series about love triangles. This really has all the main components of future Adachi stories, with one difference: I though this was much more daring in terms of sexual content. It is nowhere near VGA or I's, but it's definitely not as clean as Touch or Rough. The main dilemma that the [...]
Death Note
This is the first "modern" manga I've read in a while. The premise is that Light comes in possession of a Death Note, if you write a name while thinking of the person's face, that person will die. It's an interesting premise, but the story takes it way beyond that. Light is a young bright student who has a twisted view of justice and starts [...]
Hiatari Ryoukou (Sunlight All Around)
This is another of Adachi's early works, and while it may be even lighter than usual, it's still a very entertaining manga. Unlike other works, this actually is not just about one sport. The main focus is still a love triangle (actually at the end there are two triangles), but sports is always an important vehicle through which the [...]
Jinbe
After reviewing his early work Nine more than a year ago, here is a more modern story by Mitsuru Adachi. This is a short story told in one volume, complete with a few color pages. Those pages were put to great effect in the aquarium scenes, really showing off the blue and beautiful drawings. The story itself is a bit controversial, even [...]
Nine
Nine is a manga by Mitsuru Adachi created in 1978. This is the first manga by Adachi, but it already shows his potential. Many of his manga are about high school/sports/comedy/love stories, and this is no exception. We have the classic love triangle, whose stars are involved with the baseball club. Actually there are 2 triangles, crossing over [...]
Strain
Strain is a manga by Buronson and Ryoichi Ikegami. This story is about so many things that I don't even know where to begin. It is about Kusaka, a big Japanese company trying to take control of the Asian oil market. It is about the difficult relationship between the head of Kusaka and his little brother. It is about two Asian young men who grow up [...]