If you are a fan of horror, thrillers, conspiracies and intrigues and the strange, this selection is made for you. Here is the manga selection for November 2024 from franceinfo.
A horror trio at Mangetsu
Watch out for your hair! PTSD Radioby Masaaki Nakayama will not leave you indifferent. It also disturbed its author who would have put an end to the series because it haunted him.
Do you catch the strange frequency of PTSD Radio ? Horror crawls, slides and lurks in the dark. It pulls you by the hair, it grabs you like a vacuum, it transmits like a virus and infiltrates through every pore of your life. You can always close the book… but it will already be too late.
Watch out for your hair! PTSD Radioby Masaaki Nakayama will not leave you indifferent. It also disturbed its author who would have put an end to the series because it haunted him.
Do you catch the strange frequency of PTSD Radio ? Horror crawls, slides and lurks in the dark. It pulls you by the hair, it grabs you like a vacuum, it transmits like a virus and infiltrates through every pore of your life. You can always close the book… but it will already be too late.
Here, it is not a question of a single story but of a succession of short stories which come together over the course of the chapters to finally take shape, a bit like a puzzle. Horror is above all related to the anguish that we feel when following characters in different places, but who all have the same goal: to understand the mysteries that surround them.
With Smile!, by Mitei Hattori, plunge into the darkness of a very disturbing cult where smiling is obligatory. A gripping psychological thriller.
Yûshi Kamome, a broke freelance journalist, is struggling to find meaning in his life since the departure of his wife, Megumi. But the visit of two women who came to preach for a certain “Church of the Eternal Smile” will change the course of his existence. At first reluctant to listen to them, a detail ends up calling out to him: on the brochure, he sees his ex-wife, although missing…
Yûshi then finds himself plunged into an increasingly distressing quest, where corpses are found with mutilated faces, completely naked…
The atmosphere is gloomy, dark, and key elements of the plot are revealed subtly. Be careful, drawing can sometimes be uncomfortable.
Do you dare to pass through the portal of the terrifying cemetery imagined by Junji Ito, and place your hands on the icy and cracked stones which populate the 11 stories of Graves de Junji To?
An old abandoned building inhabited by a bloody past, a strange reclusive woman who disturbs the sleep of her young neighbor, a sea monster straight from the abyss, a cursed tunnel which plunges its visitors into hypnotizing darkness, sculptures that come to life in a sinister foundry, a dark and isolated village whose inhabitants all seem bloodless…
Mangetsu offers us a collection of several short stories (Tombs, An Endless Dream, The Tunnel, The Funeral City, The Bloodline, The Slug Woman…), each one more gloomy than the other. We immediately recognize the author’s unique style. This is a perfect edition to discover Junji Ito, if you don’t know him.
This edition benefits from a preface by Keiichiro Toyama (Silent Hill) and an analysis at the end of the book by Morolian, a French-speaking specialist on the author.
A winning double at Glénat
Would you marry a psychopath to save your life? Contrary to appearances, this manga is anything but classic shojo. In Japan, The Wedding of the Fireflies by Oreco Tachibana has already sold more than a million copies.
In the middle of the Meiji era, a time when women had few rights, Satoko Kirigaya has only one wish: to marry for the honor of her family, yet her days are numbered. While an assassin tries to kill her, she asks him to marry him! Will this proposal backfire? Whatever the case, our heroine seems determined to survive the assassin she must marry.
A rhythmic manga, rich in action, sprinkled with humor. Here, two visions of the world and human relationships oppose each other. On one side, we have that of Satoko and on the other that of her assassin. The gap between them is highlighted by very good storytelling. The story is carried by the refined drawing, sometimes delicate and sometimes much more dynamic. Despite numerous moments of action, the author takes the time to focus on the psychology of the characters.
In Promise Cinderella de Oreco Tachibana. She has lost everything, he is going to offer her a game. Stupid bet, family conflicts, intrigues and romance. A manga sold more than four million copies in Japan. Hayame led a quiet life, until her husband cheated on her and filed for divorce. After running away from her marital home, she finds herself on the street. It’s there that she will meet Issei, a wealthy and twisted high school student, who offers her an unexpected deal… A meeting that will turn her life upside down.
As in The wedding of the firefliesthe two characters are total opposites. She has great values, is strong, generous, likes to help others, while he is selfish, cruel and has no use for others. But each will be intrigued by the other. Issei meets for the first time someone who is resilient and will not betray his values and Hayame realizes that Issei’s behavior is due to his history. This opposition gives rise to some comical scenes since they spend their time arguing.
A rhythmic story, with endearing characters, all set against a backdrop of class struggle and a plot that keeps us in suspense.
Crazy and action at Crunchyroll
With Kill Blue Tadatoshi Fujimakidiscover the descent into hell of a killer, almost forty years old, who finds himself enrolled in school among teenagers the age of his daughter.
Jûzô Ôgami, divorced, a child, is a renowned killer and feared in the underworld. But one day, during a mission, he is stung by a genetically modified wasp and wakes up… in the body of a teenager. In search of answers and an antidote, he is sent on an undercover mission to a college. For him, who has never been comfortable with young people, it’s a bit like entering the lion’s cage! A manga with many action scenes, humor and even if the scenario is sometimes predictable, the story gradually gains consistency and we get caught up in the story. A first introductory volume and promising for the future.
