Nishioka Kyoudai are a manga duo, probably most know for Kami no kodomo, and this is a selection of their earliest work. It looks and feels the same as any of their future work: simple child-like artwork, but with an outsider charm and an eye for composition and interesting patterns. These works are dark, surreal, and gruesome, but the chosen art style might make the disturbing content a bit more palatable.
It's a mixture of poetic, quasi-poetic, nihilistic, sad-sack, existential fragments. Sometimes with more or less of those descriptors. You'll see many of the same motifs repeating. Searching for something to make the narrator "complete,"
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Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Nishioka Kyoudai Shoki Sakuhinshuu, Me-Bug, Jump, Aru Kinzoku Bat Jisatsu, Mono no Okibasho, Torikago, Kaze no Fuiteiru Hi, Ame no Futteiru Hi, Nichiyoubi, Tanjoubi, Satsujinkino Noroi, Yoru, Harigane, Boku ga Koroshita Mono Japanese: ぼく虫―西岡兄妹初期作品集 InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 16
Status: Finished
Published: Oct 19, 1989 to Apr 24, 1996
Theme:
Psychological
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
Garo Authors:
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