395 – Manga in Motion 53 – Jackie Chan’s City Hunter
This week dakazu talks about Our Flag Means Death being BL, more series from Manga Planet Library, and Jiro Matsumoto’s Ichigeki and beautiful place! Then it’s time for Part 2 of our City Hunter Multimedia Retrospective where we examine the Chinese action comedy film City Hunter starring Jackie Chan!!!
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A manga about a group of country peasants who are recruited and trained to become an assassination squad against the Satsuma during Bakumatsu era Japan.
Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by Jiro Matsumoto that’s this grounded in reality. It doesn’t come close to the strange psychological nature of his other works like Freesia or Joshi Kohei. I assume this is because the writing is handled by Yoshio Nagai.
Matsumoto’s brutal violence fits extremely well with the historical setting of feudal Japan. It honestly might be the easiest of his series to recommend for newcomers.
~dakazu
257 – One Shot 22 – not simple
On this episode dakazu talks about Kimi ga Bokura wo Akuma to Yonda Koro, Shigeru Mizuki’s Hitler, and Ichigeki! Then we dive into the tragic tale of Ian in Natsume Ono’s not simple!!!
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