by Lynzee Loveridge, July 24, 2024
Fantagraphics launched its award-nominated Search and Destroy manga on Tuesday, and Anime News Network can exclusively share a four-page preview.
Images ©Atsushi Kaneko, Micro Magazine, Mangasplaining, Fantagraphics
Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and her Pink Gun, SOIL, Wet Moon) began serializing his Search and Destroy manga in Micro Magazine Publishing Company's TezuComi magazine in October 2018. The story is a reimagining of Tezuka's iconic Dororo manga. The cyberpunk horror was recently nominated for the first American Manga Award. Manga creator Phil Christie was nominated for lettering and editing volume 1.
Mangasplaining began serializing the manga on the Mangasplaining Extra (MSX) newsletter last August.
©Atsushi Kaneko, Micro Magazine, Mangasplaining , Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics describes the manga:
This is a story of rage. Rage against hypocrisy, injustice, exploitation, and wrongs that cause a child to grow up to become a righteous killer…. Completed in three volumes, Search and Destroy transports Dororo’s quest for vengeance from feudal Japan to a dystopian future where mercenary robots called “Creatures” serve the human elite and fall victim to the desperate, writhing mobs of the city. The violent death of one of these creatures connects an orphaned thief named Doro to a mysterious girl in foul animal fur who harbors deadly cybernetic implants. Who is this mysterious girl? How is she able to kill each of the city’s most powerful and twisted creatures? And why is she so angry?
In addition to inspiring Search and Destroy, Tezuka's 1967 manga was adapted by Mushi Productions into a black-and-white animated series in 1969, a live-action film in 2007, and an animated remake in 2019. Vertical Inc.'s release of the original manga won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best International Documentary in the United States—Japan.
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