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Land Stander
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I wonder if people have some favourite non-fiction manga.
(biographical, autobiographical, historical, educational or informational). I just finished Ichi-F, and My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. Both were incredibly powerful real-life stories. Any others to recommend (new or old)? thanks, LS |
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Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer
Posts: 2617 Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City |
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Drawn & Quarterly just published a good Korean nonfiction manhwa - Uncomfortably Happily. It's not quite as serious as the other two you mentioned, but still very good.
I also love Cells at Work, which does give a decent amount of (sixth grade level) biology information in a ridiculously fun format. |
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Alan45
Village Elder
Posts: 9875 Location: Virginia |
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As long as non fiction is the only qualifier:
Junji Ito's Cat Diary Yon & Mu from Kodansha. The noted horror manga writer's amusing story of learning to live with his fiancée's cats. Not Love but Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy by Fumi Yoshinaga from Yen Press. A tour of the author's favorite restaurants. Okimono Kimono by Clamp's Mokona from Dark Horse. Strictly speaking not manga. This is a mostly photographic book on all aspects of Kimonos from a collector. It does, however, contain the author's sketches, illustrated explanations and a short manga at the end. That is all I've got from twenty years of manga collecting. |
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zawa113
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There is a manga biography on Osamu Tezuka (appropriately titled The Osamu Tezuka Story), though this one isn't self autobiographical (on the basis that Tezuka died in Feb 1989), it is clearly meticulously researched.
There's also the semi-biographical work of Barefoot Gen, based on the mangaka's actual experience with the Hiroshima atomic bomb drop. He also had a short one chapter manga called I Saw It that Last Gap also put out (via Kickstarter), based on the same event. |
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Alan45
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Posts: 9875 Location: Virginia |
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Supposedly both Trainman and My Girlfriend is a Geek are supposed to be based on real life. I think there is some doubt in both cases.
At any rate, we got two versions of Trainman manga, a one volume version from Del Rey and two volumes from Viz. My Girlfriend is a Geek was five volumes from Yen Press. |
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Jose Cruz
Posts: 1778 Location: South America |
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I liked this Hitler's biography:
https://www.amazon.com/Shigeru-Mizukis-Hitler-Mizuki/dp/1770462104 Its a surprinsingly humanistic and realistic portrayal of Hitler. I can understand why he did what he did thanks to this manga. Also he wrote some manga books on the history of Japan that are partly autobiographical: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1770461353/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1501966804&sr=8-5 Another good one is this: autobiographical manga of one of manga's pionner artists: https://www.amazon.com/Drifting-Life-Yoshihiro-Tatsumi/dp/1897299745 |
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Jose Cruz
Posts: 1778 Location: South America |
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Another interesting one published also as a webcomic is a manga authored by a Westerner manga-artist living in Japan about her life in there:
https://wow-j.com/en/Allguides/other/tips_manners/ae000_en/ |
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