MANGA — Chapter 1: Two Warriors
22 pages, from Metro Scope (Ex-Licenses), released Mar 10, 2022.
Volume 1
Description
A unique publication from before Shogakukan Inc. established Viz Communications in 1987 (the first full-fledged business in the United States by a Japanese Manga publisher), MANGA was an 88-page anthology of 10 short stories in both color and black-and-white: An experiment by Masaichi Mukaide, the publication's editor, this may have been too far ahead of its time, in many aspects.
Features a stunning roster of authors of that time: such as Hiroshi Hirata, Yosuke Tamori, Yukinobu Hoshino, Katsuhiro Otomo, Keizo Miyanishi, Noboru Miyama, Yoji Fukuyama, & Noriyoshi Orai (illustration) and with Hajime Sorayama featured on its cover, Back cover by Hiroshi Hirata, and Chika Oya in charge of coloring the illustration indicated.
--- Notes - For detailed ToC, refer to Grand Comics Database page ([Link](https://www.comics.org/issue/1137542/))
- Description adapted using excerpts from the 2020 article "*People who have delivered Japanese manga overseas No.1: Masaichi Mukaide, Editor*" ([Link](https://mediag.bunka.go.jp/article/article-16371/))
Chapters (10)
- Chapter 9: Cat in AnimationVol. 1
- Chapter 8: The PromiseVol. 1
- Chapter 7: SchizophreniaVol. 1
- Chapter 6: The Great TenVol. 1
- Chapter 5: Midsummer Night's DreamVol. 1
- Chapter 4: The Watermelon MessiahVol. 1
- Chapter 3.5: Olai PortfolioVol. 1
- Chapter 3: The Mask of the Red Dwarf StarVol. 1
- Chapter 2: Down TimeVol. 1
- Chapter 1: Two WarriorsVol. 1