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Designs #1
ディザインズ 1
自然界を超越した異形の生物──HA（ヒューマナイズド・アニマル）。それは遺伝子を“設計”された、ヒトと動物とのハイブリッド。HAが備える驚異的な身体能力は、野心を抱く人々の策略によって殺りくの現場へと投入され、その真価を発揮していく。ヒトは何のためにこの異形をデザインしたのか──その背景には、人類の未来へとつながる壮大な計画が横たわっていた！ 稀代の表現者・五十嵐大介が放つハードSF、ついに登場！
251 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 23, 2016
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About the author
Daisuke Igarashi
48 books165 followersDaisuke Igarashi (五十嵐 大介, Igarashi Daisuke) is a Japanese cartoonist, acclaimed for his refined art style and philosophical themes. His manga often use sci-fi or magical elements to touch on the relation between mankind and nature.
Igarashi began his professional career in 1993 on the pages of the magazine 'Monthly Afternoon'. Therein, he published the stories composing Hanashippanashi (1993-1996), a few other shorts collected in the volume Sora Tobi Tamashii (2002), as well as his first minor success, the series Little Forest (2003-2005).
In 2003 the author started a fruitful collaboration with the alternative manga magazine 'Monthly Ikki', in which he serialised his most famous works to date: the anthological Witches (2003-2004) and Children of the Sea (2006-2011). Both series were awarded an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival, respectively in 2004 and 2009.
Igarashi's latest works are Umwelt (2017), collecting short stories appeared in various magazines between 2004 and 2014, and the 5-volume long manga Designs (2016-2018).
Igarashi began his professional career in 1993 on the pages of the magazine 'Monthly Afternoon'. Therein, he published the stories composing Hanashippanashi (1993-1996), a few other shorts collected in the volume Sora Tobi Tamashii (2002), as well as his first minor success, the series Little Forest (2003-2005).
In 2003 the author started a fruitful collaboration with the alternative manga magazine 'Monthly Ikki', in which he serialised his most famous works to date: the anthological Witches (2003-2004) and Children of the Sea (2006-2011). Both series were awarded an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival, respectively in 2004 and 2009.
Igarashi's latest works are Umwelt (2017), collecting short stories appeared in various magazines between 2004 and 2014, and the 5-volume long manga Designs (2016-2018).
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August 2, 2024
13×18 +[DJ]½flapped ¦ A.I. 01/2023 ¦ D.L. 02/2023 = eo(fr)
-›cover very delicate 'chrome' finish / [DJ] different fragile
Narrative: **
I was so happy about the name of the shady human-engineering company being "Sanmonto Group" which, to the reader minds that did the syllable swap instantly, is appropriately vilifying by comparison to the current corporation that I believe most evil of all businesses I know anything at all about who I totally believe would be the ones doing this Creator-folly.
But I couldn't understand what was going on most of the time and don't really care...
Visual: *****
Gorgeous AND exacting!
-›cover very delicate 'chrome' finish / [DJ] different fragile
Narrative: **
I was so happy about the name of the shady human-engineering company being "Sanmonto Group" which, to the reader minds that did the syllable swap instantly, is appropriately vilifying by comparison to the current corporation that I believe most evil of all businesses I know anything at all about who I totally believe would be the ones doing this Creator-folly.
But I couldn't understand what was going on most of the time and don't really care...
Visual: *****
Gorgeous AND exacting!
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