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Must-have Manga
With so many genres to choose from, where’s a manga newbie to start? Here, a selection of exceptional manga to launch your obsession.
From The Advocate  October 21, 2008
Must-have Manga

BEST SELLER
Gantz series
(Dark Horse)
Released this summer in English for the first time, Gantz, written and drawn by Hiroya Oku, quickly became one of the most requested manga ever published by Dark Horse. The story focuses on a posse of undead people who complete a series of complicated missions.

CLASSIC
Lone Wolf and Cub series
(Dark Horse)
Written by Kazuo Koike with art by Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf and Cub is an archetypal samurai-vengeance story set in feudal Japan that has influenced numerous Western comics creators.

ICONOCLAST
Akira series
(Dark Horse/Kodansha)
Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga is a postapocalyptic cyberpunk saga whose intricate art raised the manga bar forever more when it debuted in 1982.

RANDOM
The Manga Cookbook
(Japanime)
In this volume, conceived by the “culinary institute” of online manga instructor Manga University, manga characters are used by illustrator Chihiro Hattori to demonstrate Japanese recipes.  

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