Keyword results: Manga
Astro Boy
The 1980s cartoon series based on Osamu Tezuka's manga was one of my formative pop-cultural experiences. I remember it being quite dark and existential. That, and Astro would regularly drop from the sky like a stone, moaning, "My energyyyy..." I've had mobiles with better battery life.
This plasticky CGI retelling gives Astro an improved power source - a mysterious blue bauble.
Monster Men: Bureiko Lullaby
Monster Men is Japanese manga gone septic. Sex with foetuses still in their wombs. Nun rape. A mutated sperm who has daddy issues. Takeshi Nemoto's Monster Men: Bureiko Lullaby, is a squalid cartoon collection, finally translated into English.
The book's central tale takes in the life of a transvestite sperm who, after being ejaculated to life by a masturbating sailor off the deck of a ship into the nuclear burn of an A-bomb test, embarks on a Henry Miller-esque voyage of discovery.
Bat-Manga: The secret history of Batman in Japan
Since first appearing in 1939, the Batman franchise has been reinvented on a regular basis. Over the last 70 years we've had camp Batman, grumpy Batman, depressed Batman and countless variations on those basic themes. Oh, and then there was the short-lived Japanese Batman.
Back in the ‘60s when Adam West was hamming it up for TV cameras, a Japanese company licensed the rights and created their own comic book.
Easy Cafe
The best thing about bubble cup tea is getting the black balls that are inside the tea and shooting them out with a massive plastic straw. Under Melbourne's comic book haven you'll find a techno-colored bubble tea wonderland that Alice herself doesn't even know exists.
The snacks aren't as good as the décor, but still when you have egg dipped in soy sauce you have to think to yourself, "Where the fuck am I?" There's stuff like bubble tea, ice tea, and hot ice blends, don't ask me how that works.
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