Sanctuary

サンクチュアリ [Sanctuary] #4

by Ryōichi Ikegami, Shō Fumimura

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Genres: Manga, Comics, Crime, Graphic Novels, Thriller, Adult, Pulp

314 pages, Paperback

First published February 29, 1992

About the author

Ryōichi Ikegami (池上遼一) is a manga artist. He was assistant to manga artist Shigeru Mizuki in 1966. In 2001, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga as the artist of Heat. He became a professor at Osaka University of Arts in 2005.

Ikegami has worked on several popular series, such as Mai, the Psychic Girl with writer Kazuya Kudo, Crying Freeman, with writer Kazuo Koike, as well as Sanctuary and Heat with writer Sho Fumimura. He also wrote and drew Spider-Man: The Manga, a manga version of Spider-Man and collaborated with Garon Tsuchiya for the manga BOX (BOX 暗い箱). His most recent work is Lord currently serialized in Big Comic Superior.

Reviews

[Frédéric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah. So many plots. So many threads to follow. So many double crossings waiting to happen.

Busy bee Hojo is on every front: thwarting Isaoka’s plot against Asami, recruiting another ambitious upstart who’ll bring him lots of cash. Will Hojo be able to make good use of it? Nothing’s less sure since his Hong Kong scheme might backfire on him.

As for Asami he makes pal- sort of- with new Diet members like him. This part is the less well handled. The way Asami and Sengoku befriend each other is kind of silly and Yoshikawa feels too much like a cartoon character to be credible. On the other hand, the depiction of Japan’s politics is quite interesting. Guess it’s the same everywhere, eh?

Ishihara is alas still playing the blushing bride...

[Dan P · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sanctuary is a really good crime/political thriller (with some thorny out-of-date elements to be sure) elevated into the stratosphere because of its jaw-dropping art. Ryoichi Ikegami is one of the best sequential artists to ever live. I can't tell you how sad it makes me that his work is SO hard to track down in English. But I'm doing my best!!

[Leonardo Etcheto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let the double crossing commence! Kudos for a great cliffhanger ending to the book. Will Hojo live? Will love conquer all? Will Tokai go bonkers and nuke something? Who will fight with whom and for what? Will the past catch up with the big tree?
I found Asamis talk with the "American Spirit" fantastic. Here we have Japans argument during the car wars. Open up the borders and let people choose the best. They will choose Japanese because Japan builds with quality while the big three focused on compensation (execs, unions, pensions)and built crap. Protecting the big three is what got them in trouble, they forgot how to compete. Ofcourse politics being whatvthey are what we did is put limits on how much they coild import which forced them to start producing in the USA. Without unions ofcourse or shortsighted execs.
Now to get aswers in vol5.

[Akash Vidyasagar · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were a few moments in this volume that were too good to be true that conveniently benefited the protagonist, moving the plot forward. However, mostly, the writing and art have been so fantastic that there's nothing stopping me from jumping to Volume 5 immediately. This is truly a side of Japan I had never read about before.

[Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.2/5

Shit, things are getting serious! Aside from a few minor contrived conveniences, and the continued uselessness of the Chief Inspector Ishihara (who could be a great foil for Hojo if only she were written better), this series has got me hooked in. Things are getting more complicated, and the Okinawa plotline is really starting to heat things up. Exciting stuff.

[Wis_Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

La historia me parece excelente, lo único que me molesta es cierto personaje problemático que cada dos capítulos se v**la a la primera mina que se le cruza