Taniguchi Jiro

K is a work frankly atypical when compared to most comics or sleeves that are published in our country, and is an adaptation of a famous Japanese novel written by Yumemakura Baku. K (Ka) is the name of a mysterious climber who do not know their origin or their real name, although suspected to be Japanese. Occasionally performs functions sherpa carrier or for expeditions want to climb the Himalayan mountains. His extraordinary skill as a climber have made him a sort of legend among the locals and their services are often required to perform rescues in the most extreme situations. But K does not work for money, he sees in the mountains not only a personal challenge but a way of being part of nature itself, thus using the lessons of the tribes of the area and the observation of animal behavior to solve the difficulties it presents the mountain. So we will see, over five chapters, how K must face increasingly tough challenges and the struggle for survival and personal growth that involves climbing mountains over 8000 meters.

After an earthquake, a mysterious forest appears in an area close to the 10 year old protagonist's new home. This is Jiro Taniguchi's last work before his death. It's unfinished, originally intended to be 3-5 volumes. The manga was made for a French audience, in full color, with a simultaneous release in French and Japanese.

A collection of short stories- Kanatayori (Big Comic Original, 2014)- Furansu to Watashi (Furansu, 2011) - Doko ni ka (Big Comic, 2016)- Mahou no Yama (Young Jump, 2006) (Divided into two chapters) - Izanaumono Hanabi

Oneshot published in Oyaji Shuu, a collection of essays and short stories about old men.

After a group trip to Europe, a Japanese artist stops in Paris alone, intent on visiting the museums of the capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering in a foreign land, deprived of any immediate or familiar recourse. When the fever breaks somewhat, he sets out on his visit and promptly gets lost in the crowded halls of the Louvre. Very soon, he discovers many unsuspected facets to this world in a museum in a journey oscillating between feverish hallucination and reality, actually able to speak with famous painters from various periods of history, led to crossroads between human and personal history by... the Guardians of the Louvre.

During the Interwar Period (1925-1932), Tomoji lives in the Japanese countryside while Fumiaki works as a photographer in Tokyo. One day, they meet… This story is inspired by real characters who founded later a branch of Buddhism.

Anthology of short stories by Jiro Taniguchi published from 1975 to 1986. Stories included: Kouya wo Ayume (荒野を歩め) Geronimo (ジェロニモ) Long Knife (ロングナイフ) Mori e (森へ) Tsuki ni Hoeru (月に吠える) Saketa Houkou (裂けた咆哮) Yukar no Mori (ユーカラの森) The Hawk (Taka, 鷹) Kareshibanada (枯柴灘) Irataka no Juzu (イラタカの数珠) The Unnameable (Nazuke Enu Mono, 名づけえぬもの)

1967, summer. Kenichi, a 11 years old boy, discovers a magic mountain, thanks to a salamander confined in a museum. Read left-to-right.

Seton is the story of Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), a famous American writer and naturalist.

Seventeen authors (nine from France or French-speaking countries, eight from Japan) brought together in the same book, a succession of freely created short stories about the same universe: Japan. The French, of course, journeyed to Japan for the occasion. Each cartoonist was sent for two weeks to a different city in the archipelago (Joann Sfar in Tôkyô, Emmanuel Guibert in Kyôto, Nicolas de Crécy in Nagoya, etc.) to bring back an original creation. The Japanese tell us about their district, the city where they live or where they originally come from (Kazuichi Hanawa's story being about the northern island of Hokkaido, Jiro Taniguchi's about the town of Tottori, etc.) The result is often inspired, always surprising: Japan through new eyes. "Japan" will appear simultaneously in French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian and English. Along with "A Patch Of Dreams" by Hideji Oda, it is the first step in a series of international creations with left-to-right reading direction, created for us by some of the best European and Japanese comic book artists. List of included short stories: At the Seaside - TAKAHAMA Kan The Gateway - David Prudhomme Summer Sky - TANIGUCHI Jiro Now I Can Die! - Aurélia Aurita Osaka 2034 - François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters Shin.Ichi. - Emmanual Guibert The New Gods - Nicolas de Crécy Kankichi - MATSUMOTO Taiyo The Tokyo of Qualtérou - Joann Sfar The Sunflower - Little Fish The Song of the Crickets - ANNO Moyoko In Love Alley - Frédéric Boilet The City of Trees - Fabrice Neaud The Festival of the Bell-Horses - IGARASHI Daisuke In the Deep Forest - HANAWA Kazuichi Sapporo Fiction - Étienne Davodeau

Summer. Around Tokyo. A terrible accident between a motorcyclist and a van. Ten days later, the van's driver, Kazuhiro Kubota, 42 years old, dies. At the same moment, though, the motorcyclist, Takuya Onodera, 17 years old, begins showing signs of life. In just a few days, he regained consciousness: a true miracle. However, the one which awakens in Takuya's body is Kazuhiro. After a moment of surprise, he understands that a second chance was granted to him: he was allowed to borrow Takuya's body to do what he had to do before his death, i.e. tell his wife and his 8 years old daughter that he deeply loved them and that he regrets that his job couldn't allow him to spend much time with them. Who will believe, however, that he is but Kazuhiro Kubota in another body?

An anthology of six short stories: The Ice Wanderer Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic old man. White Wilderness Also related to Jack London - it's an adaptation of the early part of his novel White Fang, in which two men and their team of dogs are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves. Our Mountains Set in 1920s Japan, the story follows an elderly hunter in his attempts to take vengeance on the enormous bear that killed his son. Kaiyose-Jima A nostalgic tale in which a boy is sent to spend the summer with relatives on the coast after his mother is taken ill. Shôkarô A mangaka looks back on the strange apartment building he lived in when he first came to Tokyo as an aspiring artist and the unusual people he met there. Return To The Sea The tale of a marine biologist working on the coast of Alaska who becomes obsessed with an elderly bowhead whale and the Inuit tales of a whale cemetery. Toudo no Tabibito was published in English as The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories by Ponent Mon / Fanfare on January 1, 2010. It was also published in Polish as Wędrowiec z tundry by Hanami.

A manga revolving around two samurai, Hikosaburo "Sky Hawk" and Manzo "Winds Wolf", exiled to United States (1871-1876) after the Boshin War . They will learn to live with Sioux people and will fight with them against Custer.

Consists of 3 anthologies V.00 - Winter 2001 V.01 - Spring 2001 V.02 - Summer 2001 Retail Link points to Amazon entry for Vol 1 Retail Link to Vol 2 link here - Amazon

Shiga, a mountaineer, leaves his isolated lodge and returns to Tokyo in order to track down Megumi - the missing daughter of Tatsuko (Shiga's deceased best friend) and Yoriko (whom Shiga has secretly been in love with since before Tatsuko died). Shiga's investigation takes him into the world of "compensated dating" and disaffected teens and what he discovers there suggests that Megumi may have been abducted by a paedophile with a great deal of power and influence. In order to save the girl and regain the self-respect he lost when his best friend died, Shiga must break through the wall of silence and do what the police dare not.

Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers that he’s an 8th grader again, but with all of his adult memories intact. Can he, or should he try to change the decisions he made before? But more importantly, can he find his way back to the present day, or is he stuck in the past?

The ancient Earth. Many animals were born and killed in the overwhelming nature. They are the ancestors of the animals that now live on this planet.

We can never forget the incredible journey of Blanca, his indomitable will, his desire for freedom. Among the many characters created by Jiro Taniguchi, this white dog is the most loved. Sensei has shown you the love of a wild and unspoiled land. Before launching into his epic flight, Blanca had lived with a pack of wolves, mating with a female... Taniguchi starts from here to give readers a novel of disarming beauty.

Collection of short stories by Jiro Taniguchi Table of Contents: Kikyō \[VAYA CON DIOS] (帰郷 \[VAYA CON DIOS]) Jakō (ジャコウ) Taka (鷹) Mori e \[Iwa no Michi] (森へ \[岩の路]) Jeronimo (ジェロニモ) Rongu naifu (ロング・ナイフ) Tsuki ni hoeru (月に吠える) Kijō no mori e \[atogaki] (机上の森へ \[あとがき]) Hamidashi no mori e (はみ出しの森へ)

A family is devastated by the Great Tottori Fire of 1952, but the family comes to terms with the disaster and breaks free from the bonds holding them back. (from MangaUpdates): KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents' divorce and a new ‘mother’. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father. Note: Was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia in 2021

(from MangaUpdates): Based on novelist Ryuichiro Utsumi's works. Published as the Hitobito Series (人びとシリーズ): The Keyaki Tree (欅の木) The White Rocking Horse (白い木馬) The Reunion (再会) My Brother’s Life (兄の暮らし) The Umbrella (雨傘) At the Art Gallery (絵画館付近) Through the Forest (林を抜けて) His Hometown (彼の故郷)

14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology. To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.

Five short stories: Raising a Dog (Inu wo Kau) And Then, Caring for a Cat (Soshite Neko wo Kau) View of the Backyard (Niwa no Nagame) Three People's Days (Sannin no Hibi) Promised Land (Yakusoku no Chi) The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki. Raising a Dog won the Shogakukan Manga Award (examination committee special) in 1992.

Who takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet to rescue a child’s toy? To stop and observe the birds? To play in the puddles after a storm? To go down to the sea to put a shell back? The Walking Man does as he strolls at random through urban Japan – often silent, often alone – with his vivid dreams that let time stand still.

In a near future humanity have to survive to a new ice age. When technology comes up against Nature... We are in a new glacial period. In these extreme conditions survive only the most suitable creatures. Takeru, responsible for a coal mine is forced to take his responsibilities and embark on a perilous expedition. The Earth is at the dawn of a new upheaval! In the future, as the end of the Ice Age is felt, all living beings embark on a new course of evolution. Guided by a Medishin, a blue God, Takéru will face the Great Mother to solve the mystery A-D-O-L-F... The fate of humanity could depend on it... Here is the second part of the visionary diptych of Jirô Taniguchi.

Winter 1989, Alaska. Blanca has escaped from a secret training camp in the Soviet bloc, counting only on his instinct to pass the Bering Strait and reach Alaska, the land of wolves. Hounded by the secret services, the genetically altered dog is driven by the call of nature and his land to continue the endless journey, embodying an ancient Inuit legend because of his extraordinary fighting skills, speed and endurance. But in his journey he comes across very dangerous enemies.

Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.

Ao no Senshi depicts the fate of an atypical boxer. His name is Reggae, he's boxing in lightweight division. His record: 12 wins per knockout for 20 losses by as many knockouts. However, the specialists are impressed by the devastating punch of this mute fighter, which contributes to his myth. But when his path cross the one of a promoter that see in him a crownless king, his life will lead him on the tortuous path to the championship belt.

Collection of early works by Jiro Taniguchi. Table of Contents: Saketa hōkō (裂けた咆哮) Za pakku (mure) (ザ・パック \[群れ]) Yūkara no mori (ユーカラの森) Irataka no juzu (イラタカの数珠) Arano o ayume (荒野を歩め) Kareshibanada (枯柴灘) Taka (鷹)

Jotaro Fukamachi is a private detective. He is divorced from a woman he can't forget, with whom he had a daughter. He is allowed to see her once a month and has regular telephone contact with her. He lives in the office of a strong-willed woman dentist (who becomes his partner at the end of the series). He has a reputation as a sleuth, but he's rather stingy and often self-serving. On the other hand, he has principles (sometimes rather caricatured) that he sticks to. The most important of which is to "always keep a promise", even if the person to whom he made it is no longer with us. As a result, he sometimes invests excessively in businesses that bring him no profit. He is friends with a rather nerdy and gentlemanly Yakuza leader, Kurosaki, has connections with a gun-runner called "the fugu", a dirty police commissioner and other local residents. Through cases of disappearance, local investigations and searches for missing persons, he comes face to face with the darker side of human nature. But he never loses his sense of humor or his faith in humanity.

Jiro Taniguchi's debut work about an assassin looking to kill a man named "L".

A boy is taken to a nightmarish world, where he stumbles upon twisted visions of humanity's inner demons. What will his trip entail? Will he be able to return to his former self, or is his new form in the world he now inhabits irreversible?

Taku Ryumon is a detective who lives on the mountains immersed in nature with his loyal hunting dog Joe. But one day a person pay a visit to him, asking a favour.

Through the ordinary small events of his professional and personal life, a forty-year-old man lets himself go on impromptu escapades at random along the paths that the big city offers. This vagrant impulse soon takes on the appearance of a sentimental journey, punctuated by images of the walker's youth.

(from MangaUpdates): In a small Nepalese shop, Makoto Fukamachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition to conquer Mt. Everest, stumbles across a camera which may well be that of George Mallory, the celebrated mountain climber who was the first to attempt conquering Everest. Mallory disappeared along with Andrew Irvine during the course of their ascent in 1924, without leaving any indication of whether they reached the summit or not. So, what if it was only on their return trip that they had their fatal accident? Based on the Baku Yumemakura novel of the same name. Won the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2001

Icaro is the adventure of a young man, Icaro, with the ability to fly and a young woman, Yukiko, who risks her life – and more – to help Icaro achieve his dream. It capitalizes on Taniguchi's ability to depict a vast and oppressive advanced science laboratory that has made Icaro its guinea pig and will use all its resources to keep him imprisoned for study.

Manga doesn't get much more noir than this. Benkei is just another expatriate Japanese arist living in the Big Apple. Or so it appears. As there "diabolical hard-boiled stories" show, surfaces aren't always what they seem. Flashbacks delve into sordid, secret past lives, and old scored, long festering, emerge without warning, asking to be settled. And Benkei's secret? Maybe it's just that he's the only artist in town who isn't having fantasies of being a hitman-for-hire. He is one.

This manga simply describes how Gorou Inogashira, the main character, chooses and takes a meal. Unlike other gourmet manga, Gorou likes to eat at cheap restaurants and no trivia on cuisine is given. The authors are trying to depict the essentials of the act of "eating" by Gorou's monologue, which comprises most of the lines of this manga.

From the pages of history comes the legend of the Samurai Jubei and the book he was pledged to protect. Now that book has been stolen and Jubei must retrieve it before Japan descends into bloody civil war.

Garouden is the story of a muscular man named Bunshichi Tanba who trained hard for five years to get his revenge on Kajiwara, the only man to have defeated him in a fight.

Tokyo, November 1905. The Meiji Era began about 30 years ago, propelling Japan into the modern era. Never before had a country experienced such profound transformations in such a short time. It is in this context, at the same time totally changed and intensely Japanese, that the writer Natsume Soseki, back from England, begins the writing of his most famous work: Botchan... It will have taken twelve years to Jirô Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekikawa to complete the 5 volumes of the vast fresco that is At the time of Botchan.

After parting from her husband, Yoshiko leaves their mansion and starts living alone in an apartment. A man falls in love with her, and chases her. She ignores the man, and walks in the city. During the walk they encounter Yakuza...

After dictatorship and civil war the South Amercian country, Nascencio, has an ambitious project to make jungle into farming land, which is commissioned to the Japanese company Seshimo. The company's chief, Yuji Seshimo, gets kidnapped while on an inspection tour into the land. Kenichi, a New York noir-style private detective, goes to find his brother...

This work is a collection of 8 short stories: Seifuu wa Shiroi (西風は白い) Shi Yori mo Akaku (死よりも赤く) Natsu wa Ki Zameta Kouya (夏は着ざめた荒野) Kanata ni wa Midori no Mori (彼方には緑の森) McKinley no Nemureru Hato (マッキンレーの眠れる鳩) Kita no Shiroku (北の示録) Inu no Hi (犬の日) Shinu ni wa Yoi Hi da (死ぬには好い日だ)

Moriyama, who was released from prison, learns that the level of boxing world is declining. He laments this situation and decides to raise a world champion himself. He finds a boy, Mikami Ran, who has hidden talent for boxing. Moriyama trains him to turn him into a world champion. Boxing depicted in this work is not only on the glamorous side, but also on the dark side that is the underworld.

A hard-boiled rock music manga that depicts the rock vocalist Odyssey returning to Japan from the United States. Odyssey spends his days wandering around with the former members who are hoping for a band reunion. However, driven by his inner impulse, he picks up the guitar again and resumes band activities.

Story revolves around a serenade, which is made up of three misfits, a beautiful stripper Hoshiko, pure and loving Joe and money lover Rei. They uncover a morphine smuggling route by mistake. Now a dangerous adventure awaits them...