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Shigeru Mizuki: Tono Monogatari (Paperback, 2021, Drawn and Quarterly) No rating

Shigeru Mizuki—Japan’s grand master of yokai comics—adapts one of the most important works of supernatural …

Review of Tono Monogatari

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Folktales of monsters and gods and weirdness from Tono in Japan, originally collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, presented here in a graphic novel adaptation. The art is wonderful and the stories are delightful, even (maybe especially) when they seem unfinished. I enjoy the way the creator inserts himself into the framing narrative.