Manga by Inio Asano
Mujina into the Deep
Inio Asano’s first take on an action-themed manga! Mujina into the Deep follows the story of a young assassin girl carrying a katana eliminating her targets in the metropolitan city of Tsukumo.
Goodnight Punpun
Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back. That’s what he wants, but what does he get…?
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Kadode Koyama and her best friend avidly track the aliens’ movements on social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world looms overhead, you learn to take things one step at a time.
Downfall
Selling copies is the only thing that matters.
So what if your first series just ended and you have no idea how to start the next one, your marriage is breaking up, your pure love of manga has been destroyed by the cruel reality of the industry and nothing seems to fill the sucking void inside you…
Find the secret combo for a new hit manga series and everything will be okay.
Right?
Solanin
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.
A Girl on the Shore
Koume and Keisuke are searching—for something. Maybe Keisuke wants more than a kiss from the fair Koume. Maybe Koume is looking for a better match than Misaki, the local playboy.
Inio Asano Short Story Collection - Bakemono Recchan/Kinoko Takenoko
This is a collection of short stories condensed into one volume by Mr. Asano, celebrating his 20th anniversary since his debut since “Sekai no Owari to Yoakemae”!
Nijigahara Holograph
Asano tells a complex, oblique tale about how an tense atmosphere, symbolized by proliferating butterflies, lead schoolchildren to “sacrifice” a fellow student, and how that act impacts various characters across two timelines.
What a Wonderful World
A dream recaptured. A life on a new track. The absurdity of death. Laughter in the face of reality.
With this series of intersecting vignettes, Inio Asano explores the ways in which modern life can be ridiculous and sublime, terrible and precious, wasted and celebrated.
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