Minami's Lover by Shungiku Uchida - ISBN: 9781683967606
Hardcover
A teen shrinks, testing love and intimacy in extraordinary ways.

Minami's Lover

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  • Hardcover

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    28 September 2023

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Summary

Originally appearing in the underground/alternative manga magazine Garo in the 1980s and adapted for television several times, the Japanese pop culture sensation Minami’s Lover is the story of two high schoolers’ romantic relationship when one of them shrinks down to six inches tall. Everyone thinks Chiyomi has disappeared, and suspicion naturally falls on Minami, identified as her boyfriend in her diary. But after inexplicably finding herself in such a state, Chiyomi moves …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781683967606
ISBN-10:1683967607
Author:Shungiku Uchida, H. Paige
Publisher:Fantagraphics
Imprint:Fantagraphics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:28 September 2023
Weight:694g
Dimensions:249mm x 185mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Milky Way is a strong debut that exposes the pitfalls that can arise in love and lust. Miguel Vila is definitely a talent to watch.– “The Turnaround Blog”Minami’s Lover dives into the dark side of sex and love in the eyes of a schoolboy. Unfiltered and unforgiving, it is definitely not your regular teenage romance series, but far more interesting.– “Gosh! Comics”Minami’s Lover takes a fantasy trope and plays it completely straight – a rare kind of speculative fiction defined by unblinking attention to the personal horror of the strange.– “The Comics Journal”

About The Author

Shungiku Uchida

Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Shungiku Uchida (the pen name of Shigeko Uchida) is a prolific writer, manga-ka, singer, and actress whose work is widely adapted into film and television. She won a Japanese literary prize for two bestsellers: the prose, semi-autobiographical Fatherfucker, which details the abuse she suffered as a child, and a manga series, We Are Reproducing, about pregnancy and single motherhood.

H. Paige was born and raised in London. She studied Japanese at The University of Manchester and spent a year in Fukuoka, where she studied courses on tourism, animation, and pop culture. She began freelance translating in 2021 and currently works in London.

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