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It's a blast of pure cyberpunk energy.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review"" Richly imagined...-- ""The New York Times"" Search and Destroy grabs you by the throat with its opening chapter and never lets go.-- ""Multiversity Comics"" A captivating work... This series would be great for fans of Naoki Ursawa's Pluto books or Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia series.-- ""Booklist"" Kaneko reimagines Tezuka's 1960s epic fantasy saga Dororo as a gritty, fast-paced cyberpunk thriller ... Kaneko retains Tezuka's relentless pacing, flair for melodrama, and thematic focus on justice, corruption, and individuality within an oppressive society, while integrating elements of body horror and an increased focus on the unsustainability of societies where vital resources are controlled by a thriving minority, to the detriment of the masses.-- ""Library Journal Starred Review""

It's a finale that satisfies, provokes, and cements the trilogy as a singular, punk-charged reinterpretation of Tezuka's classic.-- ""AIPT Comics"" It's a blast of pure cyberpunk energy.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review"" Richly imagined...-- ""The New York Times"" Search and Destroy grabs you by the throat with its opening chapter and never lets go.-- ""Multiversity Comics"" A captivating work... This series would be great for fans of Naoki Ursawa's Pluto books or Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia series.-- ""Booklist"" Kaneko reimagines Tezuka's 1960s epic fantasy saga Dororo as a gritty, fast-paced cyberpunk thriller ... Kaneko retains Tezuka's relentless pacing, flair for melodrama, and thematic focus on justice, corruption, and individuality within an oppressive society, while integrating elements of body horror and an increased focus on the unsustainability of societies where vital resources are controlled by a thriving minority, to the detriment of the masses.-- ""Library Journal Starred Review""

Atsushi Kaneko is definitely going to be a mangaka that I have my eye on going forward. He has this real kind of punk rock, cyberpunk ethos mixed in with his artwork. It's bloody, it's gory, it's fast paced. Everything that you love about the cyberpunk genre.-- ""Taylor Talks Comics"" It's a finale that satisfies, provokes, and cements the trilogy as a singular, punk-charged reinterpretation of Tezuka's classic.-- ""AIPT Comics"" It's a blast of pure cyberpunk energy.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review"" Richly imagined...-- ""The New York Times"" Search and Destroy grabs you by the throat with its opening chapter and never lets go.-- ""Multiversity Comics"" A captivating work... This series would be great for fans of Naoki Ursawa's Pluto books or Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia series.-- ""Booklist"" Kaneko reimagines Tezuka's 1960s epic fantasy saga Dororo as a gritty, fast-paced cyberpunk thriller ... Kaneko retains Tezuka's relentless pacing, flair for melodrama, and thematic focus on justice, corruption, and individuality within an oppressive society, while integrating elements of body horror and an increased focus on the unsustainability of societies where vital resources are controlled by a thriving minority, to the detriment of the masses.-- ""Library Journal Starred Review""

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Atsushi Kaneko is a Japanese manga artist from Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture. His two books, Bambi and Her Pink Gun and Soil, have both been published in France. Bambi has also been published in English and Soil has been adapted into a television drama series. Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator. His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovations in genre storytelling earned him such titles as ""the Father of Manga,"" ""the Godfather of Manga,"" and ""the God of Manga."" Ben Applegate has been working in English-language manga since 2007 as a translator, editor, and publishing professional. In his capacity as director of publishing services at Penguin Random House Publisher Services, he has managed publishing and editorial work for the Kodansha print manga program since 2015. Prior to that, he was senior editor on the Kodansha Comics team. He lives in one of those ""little New Jersey towns"" across the Hudson River from New York City with his wife Winnie and two superb cats.

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