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Poison City Volume 2

Poison City Volume 2

MangaThriller
Pages
212
Published
2015
Language
French

Synopsis

As the campaign against "harmful" fiction intensifies, Mikio Hibino fights to keep Dark Walker — and his right to make it — alive against publishers, committees and public pressure that would rather it quietly disappear. The concluding volume of Tetsuya Tsutsui's Poison City (Yūgai Toshi) follows the case to its resolution, laying bare the workings and the absurdities of the censorship system.

A semi-autobiographical thriller about freedom of expression, drawn from Tsutsui's own experience after his manga Manhole was officially designated a "harmful book" in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

TenseThought-ProvokingDarkReflective

Genres

Manga Thriller Dystopian Graphic Novels Drama Social Sci-Fi

About the author

T
Tetsuya Tsutsui

Tetsuya Tsutsui (筒井哲也, born November 17, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist known for tense, socially charged thrillers. He debuted in 2002 with Duds Hunt, then serialized Manhole and Reset in Square Enix's Young Gangan. His breakthrough was Prophecy (Yokokuhan), run in Shueisha's Jump X from 2011 to 2013, which follows a police cybercrime unit hunting a masked man who posts videos foretelling his crimes; it was adapted into both a live-action film and a television drama in 2015. After discove...

Characters

Mikio HibinoProtagonist

A 32-year-old manga author whose ultra-realistic horror series Dark Walker draws the attention of a spreading anti-obscenity campaign.

All characters in Poison City Volume 2