Tanpenshu Volume 1 [Paperback]

Hiroki Endo (Author, Artist)

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Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Dark Horse; illustrated edition edition (Feb 6 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593076371
ISBN-13: 978-1593076375
Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 13.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 23 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #486,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Before launching the lengthy sf adventure Eden, Endo created many shorter stories, the best of which are collected in two volumes called Tanpenshu. None of the three pieces in Tanpenshu 1 is sf, but all share Eden's manga-realist good looks, young casts, and bloody violence. In "The Crows, the Girl, and the Yakuza," a disfigured street girl shelters disabled crows--and a gangster trying to survive a rival's attacks. In "Because You're Definitely a Cute Girl," a shy, bookish high-schooler living with her distracted, widowed father eventually, murderously explodes. "For Those of Us Who Don't Believe in God" involves some college students performing a play about a serial killer. The first two tales end unsurprisingly if not predictably, but the superb "For Those," not a genre exercise of any kind but a slice of student life, ends as wonderfully naturally, with the play's cast and crew tearing down the set and goofing around, as it has transpired from the beginning. Hurrah for comics realism--no, naturalism! Ray Olson
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Heart wrenching and complex, Tanpenshu Volume 1 is the first of two collections of powerful, shorter works by manga master Hiroki Endo (creator of the critically-acclaimed, long-running Eden manga series). The three stories in this first volume are mature explorations of humanity's constant, fumbling attempts to find hope and meaning in a confusing, violent world. A disfigured misfit befriends a doomed yakuza outcast, a group a school kids fail to see the anger that's about to boil over from one of their own and members of an experimental theatre troupe embark on a project that will test both their friendships and the group's grasp on reality.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic art and storytelling. MUST HAVE!, Mar 17 2010

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The art in this comic is beautiful. Its stories are deep and interesting. This aint Naruto #8,964, this is SPARTA!

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4.0 out of 5 stars a collection from the master., April 3 2009

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In one of his books Hiroki Endo, the author, mentions that as a child he stepped outside to go to school and found a dead hooker on his doorstep.(or so i believe the story went) When someone with this kind of history becomes an author, you know the end result is going to be delightfully shocking. Sad, twisted and emotionally compelling tanpenshu is the ultimate dive into the nether regions of the human psyche.

While not as good or as riveting as the second volume, this is definitely a must-have for any Endo fan; or fan of the dark and twisted genre.

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