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10 January, 2010

Inio Asano

Title: What A Wonderful World Series Book 1/
Subarashii Sekai
Author: Inio Asano (duh)
  • Paperback: 210 pages
  • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (October 20, 2009)
  • Language: English
Summary:
 "Life is never ordinary. The cruelty of childhood. The delusion of adulthood. The endurance of death. Laugh 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. 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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About the Author:
Born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1980. He has also done other works such as Uchuu kara Konnichiwa(Hello from Outer-space), Hikari no Machi(City of Light), Mijigahara Holograph, Solanin, and Oyasumi Punpun.

Title: Solanin
# Pages: 432
Release: 21 October, 2008
Summary:
College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude.
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo 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."

This one is only 1 book long, but one of those that keeps your interest every time you turn the page!
Inio is very talented, and let's you picture the story very well. Can find these at your local book store.
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