Astroid

by Keiichi Koike

An unfinished, text-less narrative that was first published in Gekkan Agama between 1989 and 1991. The first two chapters were then re-published in Art Publisher's Error magazine in 2000, after which the first eleven chapters re-appeared in the initial three issues of MHz magazine published by Magazine Five in 2006. The manga was never collected and released in a tankoubon.

Genres: Manga

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About the author

Keiichi Koike (in Japanese, 小池 桂一) is a Japanese manga artist.

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Koike won the prestigious Tezuka Award in 1976, when he was 16.

His style, similar to Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius, is marked by vivid representations of psychedelic experiences.

Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however, LSD is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of manga Heaven's Door and Ultra Heaven.

His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016.

Reviews

[Granit Hysiqi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Escheresque :D

[Nolan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trippy

[pato]

no words spoken no words needed, insane artwork again - weaker than his other works just in that its so vague and hard to understand but visually v good

[Martha (Marty) · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art is amazing but the whole manga reads like a weird acid trip that you can't really form into words or describe.

[Tina Gurabanidze · Rating 4 out of 5]

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