Tokyo These Days HC (2024 Viz) comic books

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Taiyo Matsumoto. Translated by Michael Arias. On his last day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times before to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Some time after, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants Shiozawa's help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who refuses to work with any editor but him. For this manga editor, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds between manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 216 pages, PC. Cover price $28.00.

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. Story and art by Taiyo Matsumoto. Translated by Michael Arias. Shiozawa forges ahead with an independently published manga project. But the manga creators around him are crumbling into chaos-Chosaku drinks himself into ever less productivity over worries about his career and family, a longtime creator can't discern the difference between fiction and fantasy, and Aoki disappears rather than face the deadlines for his new hit series. Sometimes, the simple pleasure of an apple is worth more than all the fame and toil of making manga. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 224 pages, PC. Cover price $28.00.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Story and art by Taiyo Matsumoto. Translated by Michael Arias. Believing in the future of manga while never forgetting its past, Shiozawa accompanies manga creators once again through their agony to create an ultimate manga project. Is there ever joy in creation? Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 240 pages, B&W. Cover price $28.00.