Best of
Seinen

2004

PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001


Naoki Urasawa - 2004
    Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders; the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.

Cowboy Bebop Illustrations - The Wind -


Toshihiro Kawamoto - 2004
    Its 26 episodes (“sessions”) comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of four bounty hunters, or “cowboys”, travelling on their spaceship, the Bebop. The series explores several philosophical concepts including existentialism, loneliness, and existential ennui. The series' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s–1960s and the early rock era of the 1950s–1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts recreates.[1] Cowboy Bebop was a commercial success both in Japan and international markets, notably in the United States. After this reception, Sony Pictures released a feature film, Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001), to theaters worldwide and followed up with an international DVD release. Two manga adaptations were serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Fantasy DX.

City Hunter, Volume X


Tsukasa Hōjō - 2004
    

New Lupin III: World's Most Wanted


Monkey Punch - 2004
    Join Lupin and his fellow partners-in-crime, Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko for a whirlwind, thrill-a-minute world tour filled with bombs and bombshells, lovers and liars, high crimes and misdemeanors, and the rest of the usual suspects that create the lunacy that is Lupin III.

ヒストリエ 1 [Historie, Vol. 1]


Hitoshi Iwaaki - 2004
    Historie takes place in ancient Greece and follows the life of Eumenes and his childhood, who would later in his life grow up to be the secretary and general to Alexander the Great.Historie has won the (14th) Media Arts Awards 2010 "Grand Prize" in Manga Division, and was also a finalist for the 10th Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.

Stone Volume 1


Shin-ichi Hiromoto - 2004
    Civilization is without hope. Awesome and terrifying creatures scour the sand, searching for food and facing off against the few human survivors. Gigi is a mysterious girl with the power to see through the sand sea. Her tribe has endured against the great sand whales, but the hunt has turned dry of late and things are looking bleak. In her hardscrabble search for survival, Gigi meets a pirate Sabu on the sand sea. The future of their peoples - and the success of their quest for something to believe in - just may depend on these two ...

Taimashin Volume 1


Hideyuki Kikuchi - 2004
    Taima to needle it out! Dr. Taima possesses an arcane ability to adeptly wield the taimashin, needles used to banish malefic and parasitic spirits. Together with his assistant, the lovely Maki Togetsu, Dr. Taima investigates the outbreak of demonic possessions around town that have turned ordinary and unassuming citizens into ravenous monsters that devour anything within their grasp - dogs, cats...even other people! Taima's investigation leads him to Dunwich, Massachusetts, where he meets another needle wielder, Kyogo Ayakashi. As they encounter ancient evils that are best kept secret, how will these taimashin masters bait their prey?