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Honestly, MAL must hate Gekiga - so many great titles are simply non-existing. I struggled a bit and got frustrated over that. Will edit and change some titles at another date (as I always say with my lists, hopefully I will really get to it).

Gekiga knows quite a few different definitions, but one brief explanation that holds most overall clarity, imo, is the one given by scholar Natsume Fusanosuke from the The Comics Journal essay "Taniguchi Jirō and His Gekiga Years" I highly recommend you go check out:

|| Although I just offhandedly wrote the word “gekiga”, it is a term that has experienced many changes in meaning over time. It first referred to (1) a period from the late 1950s when it was became the rallying cry by Tatsumi Yoshihiro and others all the way through the early 1960s, when it was popular in rental manga magazines. It then became (2) a term that includes the works of Sanpei Shirato and Hirata Hiroshi as they were making waves in the mass media. Then, it came to describe (3) the period from the late 1960s through the 1970s - a period during which, while gekiga was becoming the flagship for the anti-Tezuka Osamu style of manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, there was also a shift in manga expression towards a more excessive style called “seinen gekiga”, which was often used to describe the postwar generation of artists like Miyaya Kazuhiko and others. Usually “gekiga” is best understood as having these three phases. ||

The history and evolution of gekiga manga is fascinating and very fruitful in its counter and counter-counter polymorphous shifts. Wonderful, awe-striking, weird, erotic, political, harsh, violent. You name it.

Sequel to my Great 1-Volume-Only Manga Series stack.

A bit trickier to complete and curate, but I am somewhat satisfied with the end result.