Forum - View topicLittle Fluffy Gigolo PELU
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Eruanna
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This manga doesnt appear to be in the database here at all, but its a new manga by Junko Mizuno about an alien fluffball who came from a girls uterus and has come to Earth to find himself a bride so he can make a baby!
It is the most darling book I have ever read, I have to say Im quite a huge Junko Mizuno fan. Her imagination is just deliciously bizar. Anyone else taken a peak at this book? Or any of her work? She doesnt seem to be very well known. |
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Moomintroll
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There are a fair few licensed manga that aren't in the database (mostly stuff published by companies who aren't primarily manga publishers). It's frustrating but the encyclopedia staff are overstretched and primarily concerned with anime so it's understandable.
I'm a big Junko Mizuno fan too - she's got a winning combination of the grotesque and the ultra-kitsch. I didn't think PELU was quite as much fun as Pure Trance but it's a great book and I'm really looking forward to the second and third volumes - volume 2 should be out sometime later this year. Her fairytale trilogy that Viz put out is still available and well worth a look too and the Spiderman shorts she did for Marvel's Strange Tales mini-series are adorable. Now, if only I could find a copy of her Hell Babies book at a reasonable price...
I think she's maybe better known in art / design circles than as a cartoonist - in Japan as well as in the West - and better known by alternative comics fans than manga fans. I saw a bunch of PELU reviews on alt-comics sites but nothing much on manga sites. |
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Eruanna
Posts: 451 Location: Canada |
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Its interesting you perfered Pure Trace, as I found Pure Trance terribly hard to follow and confusing. Although of course I liked it, but not as much as Pelu....My favourite of hers ever is The Life of Momongo which was so interesting.
I liked her Spiderman mini it was adorable :3 And I currently have Princess Mermaid on its way to me. |
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Moomintroll
Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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It's pretty random but that's one of the things I liked about it - you can flip to pretty much any page and something wonderfully peculiar will be going on. Mostly, though, I think it's just that it was my introduction to Mizuno. I'd agree that PELU is much tighter.
Good stuff. Hansel & Gretel is my favourite of her fairytale works but Princess Mermaid runs a close second. |
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Not a Jellyfish
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I love all of the Mizuno I have read, but haven't had the chance to track down all of her older works. After just doing a quick search for this title, I'm not looking forward to digging around for it. Yeesh, it's expensive. |
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Moomintroll
Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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I was hoping her new art book, Flare, that came out in France last year would be a cheaper alternative but I can't seem to find it anywhere - even amazon.fr doesn't seem to have it. |
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