Kusumoto Maki

Republication of Maki Kusumoto's work over the past two decades.

Book with manga & illustrations from Japanese and international artists for the FIFA World Cup 2002. Content: Otomo Katsuhiro - Cover Illustration Inoue Takehiko - I love this game Kamijo Atsushi - Kaerenai ko hito (Those Who Will Never Return) About a girl name Tchie as she reminsces the time she had with her two best friends. Matsumoto Taiyou - Mie ken no shounen «Mizugame 3» - Lust for Life Tajima Sho-u (Gorilla Kick), Obata Takeshi (Morning Kong) and Asada Hiroyuki (Utan Chop) About a tale of a football shoes as it is used/travelled from one user to the next. Illust Gallery Araki Hirohiko Yazawa Ai Yamada Yoshihiro Nishimura Shinobu Okano Reiko Kusumoto Maki - Netsu Yoshino Sakumi - GOAL!! François Boucq - Sekai wa mawaru Yasuhiko Yoshikazu - Bateren: \<Journey to Western Europe - Prologue> (南蛮西遊記序章, Bateren: Nanban Saiyuuki Josho). This one-shot is the prelude to an tale of alternate history where Amakusa Shiro Tokisada survives the Shimabara Rebellion, and arrives in Spain in seek of aid for Japanese Christians. penthon - A fantastic dream Nicolas de Crécy - Montceau-les-Mines VS Pont-à-Mousson Frédéric Boilet - 2002 FIFA WORLD TEA CUP Nicolas de Crécy - Soccer no dendou Yokoyama Hiroshi - Robot Battle VI D\[di:] - Fire Star Man Taniguchi Jiro - Fuka Emile Bravo - Shinpan wa 12 hitome no senshu! Max Cabanne - Penalty area Kuroda Iou - Schweitzer Terada Katsuya - Box! Benoît Peeters & François Schuiten - Young Soon Yang - Gyoubu Ippei - football image visual Source: MangaUpdates

A decadent, poetic, obscure, and serious love story.

Mock Turtle Soup A colored single-volume manga, that consists of 8 separate stories, filled with avante-garde illustrations and poems.

Two people that live their lives however they want to, but need each other to survive. Mitsu has always been looked upon by men as the Dolis–the ideal girl, the eternal partner in any man's dream, the perfect lover… When Kishi falls head-over-heels in love with Mitsu, he soon discovers another side to this seemingly flawless woman. As the drama and romance between Mitsu and Kishi unfold, they take an extraordinary excursion into uncharted arena where love and desire confront hope and survival.

Ototsugu Hasumi is a popular novelist, who is constantly rumored to have a difficult personality and looks like a rock star. One day he unexpectedly picks up a boy named Naruaki. His editor's schemes, stalker, Naruaki's past, and Hasumi's past intersect...

The funeral bells are ringing the day that Mikaya moves into his new apartment. However, once he arrives, he learns a startling fact: the room he's moving into belonged to the dead man, K. Strangely enough, no one ever found K's body. Where is the body, and which of his eccentric neighbors was the one who killed K…?

By mimi: Three short stories. A refrigerator, a camera, and a pair of twins… What do they all have in common? A little darkness and obscurity never hurt anyone…

The sweet daily life of two lovers, high school girl Kameno and vocalist Kanon of a rock band, is depicted with Kusumoto's unique aesthetic and delicate writing style.