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An outcast ninja with a fox demon inside him wants to lead his village; seventy-two volumes.

Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.

Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.

Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.

Major Kusanagi and Section 9 in Shirow's dense cyberpunk pages, with footnotes.

A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.