When, at the beginning of summer, you were offered to read in partnership with the national operation this summer, I read, we chose to talk about all styles: novels of course but also interactive books, comics and why not manga and webtoons!
Did you know that France was the 2nd country that reads the most manga after Japan and that outside Naruto or One Piece Are there any nuggets? In these pages, we decided to select ten: classics straight from Japan but also webtoons (generally from Korea) but also French productions (yes!). Good readings!
Unico – Awakening
Come and discover the little unico unicorn. Cursed by the goddess Venus who fears that the powers of Unico competition her family, she asks Zéphyr to get rid of it but she prefers to hide it and erase her memory. Unico arrives in a new city where she will be helped by Chloé, a little cat abandoned by her master. The two friends will use the powers of the unicorn to do good around them. But using your magic will put Venus back on its trace …
Unico is a character from one of the most famous mangakas: Ozamu Tezuka (it’s him, the dad of Astro the little robot). This very color manga is a way to pay tribute to him while respecting his style and what he loved: friendship, magic and action. Four volumes are planned.
* De Tezuka, Sattin, Gurihiru, Flammarion Jeunesse, from 9 years old
Dragon Ball The King Demon Piccolo
An essential, classic manga of the genre, is it very necessary to introduce yourself Dragon Ball? Yes, because it comes back in color. In this series, Goku, a young boy with a monkey tail and extraordinary combat capacities, will once again go in search of the seven crystal balls that can grant any wish. But on his way he will have to face the demon king Piccolo.
The big bad guy also wants starry balls to govern the world. Bulma, Yamcha, a brilliant turtle and Yajirobé are all there, always ready to (still) save the earth!
* From Akira Toriyama, Glénat, from 10 years old – two volumes available, volume 3 will appear on September 2.
Morgana et Oz
A clumsy witch and a vampire with a punk style that will have to team up … This is the program for this webtoon whose 2nd volume has just been released. While Morgana’s family, a young witch, is organizing a dinner with the vampires to sign a truce between the two clans, everything will go into a spin: the blood will be poisoned, the grandfather will disappear and our young heroine not very good will unfortunately transform the beautiful goster with sharp teeth into … cat! Humor and misunderstanding: those who should not get along must collaborate … but it is not won!
* from Miyuli, Albin Michel Koda, from 12 years old
Glasses !
If the Japanese are undoubtedly the masters in terms of manga, the French also manage very well. This is the case with shine !, A sensitive and bright story that competes with them without problem. You will meet Émilie, a young girl who has not left her home since an episode of harassment in college. Traumatized, humiliated, betrayed, the eyes of others on her terrifies her. But maybe things will change with the arrival of new neighbors and Simon, a young man of his age, touched by the distress of the girl. He decides to write a letter to him to meet him. He too hides a share of shadow in his life. Two injured teens who can understand each other …
Shine! is a topical story that raises themes that will speak to you like harassment, self -confidence and especially the desire to get out of it.
* From Jenny, Alexis Coridun, Delcourt, from 12 years old
The Guardian of the Stars
In the middle of the Japanese countryside, there is a place, out of time. A strange house with a rounded roof run by a grandpa and a young boy: it’s called the little galaxy. Those who enter it discover a planetarium on a human scale. Whether it is a harassed young girl, a writer in need of inspiration, a little girl who wants to make a wish or an aunt who seeks to take care of her nephew, they will find the answers in the constellations. A poetic manga for astronomy enthusiasts that falls tipped before the night of shooting stars!
* From Isuzu Uemura, the golden fox, from 12 years old.
Moon et Iro
We suggest you escape on a small island of Korea from the beginning of the century with Moon and Iro. One is a helpful, smiling and kind little girl. The other is an injured triton, stranded on the beach. Moon will want to help her and try to talk about it around her. But no one will believe it: a triton! What an idea! Until she hears rumors in the village and a group of people who are not very friendly who would look for a triton … Moon will do everything to protect her new friend. If you like the endearing characters and the beautiful stories of friendship tinged with fantastic, two volumes are already available!
* from Wonsanji, Yam Yam, Milan, from 10 years old
Ruridragon
When Ruri gets up one morning, she realizes that horns pushed on her head overnight. Real horns, curved and sharp. This is where her mother admits that her father, whom she has never known, is not really human, but that it is a … Dragon!
Arriving in high school, in addition to the fact that she does not go unnoticed, the problems begin: when inadvertently she sneezes, she spits fire! You will have understood this totally offbeat story continues funny situations. How will this poor Ruri live with its rather uncontrollable new powers?!
* Masaoki Shindo, volume 1, Glénat, from 12 years
Nikuko du port de pêche
Kikurin is a young girl with an extraordinary mother. And in Japan, a country where appearances and decorum is important, it is not easy every day. Nikuko is a overweight single mother. She lacks discretion, she is a good living who eats all the time and continues the men who abandon her. But she has a huge heart. Both live modestly in a small town where everyone knows each other.
This manga in two volumes, in the heart of rural Japan, will invite you into their daily lives. Scenes of touching and funny lives on this mother-daughter duo that everything opposes but which overflows with love.
* by Kanako Nishi and Sugisaku, the golden fox, from 10 years old
Dam of the forest
In this webtoon, enters a poetic universe alongside Dam, a strange boy who has a gift with plants. On contact, they grow at dizzying speed. The back of the medal: Dam does not grow, it is blocked in a 13 -year -old boy. Around him, life will flow, people age, die and he will stay. Alone. This gift that has become a curse pushes him to leave where he feels good, he does not feel threatened: in the forest. If you are curious to know the continuation, am this strange fate, in a world that is both fantastic and futuristic. A story that will also question you about humanity.
* from Dahong, Yam Yam Milan, from 10 years old
Splatoon, octopus stories in Cité-Clabousse
Unavoidable video game, Splatoon is both cool and delusional with its battles where young half-humans half-galls must cover the enemy territory with paint, all with a variety of completely crazy and more or less effective weapons. Manga version, it gives a series of gags and delirious situations. Am hit and his chromapolis kala girlfriend in Cité-Clabousse in their quest to become the coolest ink in the world!
* from Hideki Goto, manga sun, from 9 years old
