“Someday, I wish I could stumble across the memories of certain people that exist in the abyss by gazing at their pain, their sorrow, and the movements of their souls…”

This dream-like work dwells on memory and family, and follows ambiguous figures that stride through the snowy lands adjacent to the realm of the dead. Hagiwara Rei explores the processing of grief, and how cyclical mechanisms of human emotion map out a geography of memory inextricably intertwined with the natural world from which we spring. Prepare to be absorbed in a work unlike any other coming out now.

Translation by Anna Schnell
SFX Lettering by Tim Sun
Design and Editing by Emuh Ruh

Reviews

Manga Machinations
“…It’s like looking at paintings… it is so good… Ripples is awesome. It’s such a lovely looking book… It’s really about what you’re going to get out of it, it’s kind of personal… This is dealing with grief and loss. This is dealing with death…This book is really hard to describe, but we all like this a lot… it’s like looking at an art piece [when you look at a n art piece] you just get the feelings of what you see, and because there’s so much ink work.. you look at it differently than you do a commercial manga… sometimes commercial manga will do a page that looks something like this [more painted] to drive home a point or mood, but when you have a book that’s all this, it’s just all mood, and it just washes over you without you understanding what’s happening.”

But Why Tho [Olive St. Sauver]
“…A reflection on grief and memory, with beautifully distinctive art, Ripples by Hagiwara Rei is a manga like no other on the market right now. Glacier Bay Books has done a great job with this release, and if readers are comfortable taking a journey with no set destination, this might be a healing meditation for many this year.”

Broken Pencil [Graham Sigurdson]
“… Glacier Bay Books has another gem on their hands. Rei Hagiwara’s Ripples is a reflection on grief, emotion, and memory, all in manga form. It’s incredible.
Drawn in cold, dark watercolours, the characters and settings in Ripples are only distinguishable negatively, through their absence of shade…Unnamed figures wander through cold bleak environments, speaking of their distant memories and reminiscing on past events. “Where can I return these feelings?” asks one figure. ‘What do I do with this sorrow?’ Relationships are never explicitly spelled out, but Hagiwara is easily able to convey that the connection, whatever it may have been, was (and is) an important one.”

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An all-new collection of 4 short stories clustered around the idea of young adulthood in a futuristic yet nostalgic world. Vampires, kaiju, ancient fish eggs, and silent underwater cities, all overlapping with the vicissitudes and precarity of starting to find your way in the world.

Ding Pao-Yen is a young comic artist from Taiwan. Their work has been making waves for several years now, even being featured and supported by the Angouleme comics artist residency. They are an invited artist at MoCCA 2025, and have recently had several major releases including their latest, CONSOLE 2073. Their books have been released in Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. This is the author’s long awaited English debut.

Target specs

• spot color printing on cover and (monochrome) interiors
• sewn binding and french flap cover design
• deluxe cream paper stock
• 92 pages

Contributions

• Lettering by Lauren Eldon
• Translation by Orion Martin & Xinmei Liu
• Design & Editing by emuh ruh

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Words About Spring Tides

“A great book by one of the great artists of our times… He can break your heart with a line… just stunning, [Spring Tides] can be so simple yet so powerful. Andrew White is someone who should be up there with the Chris Wares and the Dash Shaws, and the Olivier Schrauwens.” – Carson Grubaugh, [best books of 2024]

“This feels like something that would have come out of Koyama Press ten years ago, or maybe Avery Hill today. Visually it resembles a more ghostly form of Connor Willumsen’s Anti-Gone, but tonally it feels right in line with GG’s Constantly or I’m Not Here. This is a book about living with pain, with illness, with an inability to be physically alright. It’s about that from the perspective of a wife whose husband is ill and from the perspective of a husband whose wife worries about his illness. Also, the world is flooding disastrously, so there’s that too. It’s good, dreamy… Maybe it’s really good. I’ll find out later, I suppose.” – Seth Hahne

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The second volume of Tsugawa’s comic “dream journal”. Building off of ‘Mermaid Town’ yet an entirely self-contained work, D’Artagnan’s Horse expands on the narrative and stylistic variety of the first collection bringing an even wider array of polished surreal dreamlike short stories. Includes 16 short comics in a startling variety of tones & settings, as well as the author’s detailed commentary essay, preface, and an afterword / bonus comic.

A5, approx. 100 pages. The same natural paper stock as Mermaid Town and with a complementary color edge stain and two spot ink cover. Binding is sewn perfect bound.

ISBN 978-1-953629-33-3

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Please note the listing has been updated. Orders placed outside the allowed shipping region will be refunded following the site restocking policy.

Yoshimi Uchida is one of the beloved cartoonists from the 70’s & 80’s who was active in Ribbon & Bouquet magazines. Uchida’s Star Clock Liddell is a classic of 20th century modern shoujo manga and their masterpiece, a rare, longer work first released between 1982 and 1983. In it, the artist’s quiet, firm lines delineate another world too familiar to our own…

Young American socialite Hugh is haunted by recurring dreams of a silent house shadowed in mystery. Slowly overcome by a premonition of living on the “other side”, he turns to his close friends for advice. And then one day, a girl appears in his dream asking for help…

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Each volume is approximately 180-200 pages. Approximately A5 (14.8 cm x 21 cm) format. Star Clock Liddell is printed on high quality uncoated natural paper in BW and includes color sections at the front of each volume. Gorgeous covers pay homage to the original edition with full color print + foil lettering on a specially treated deluxe textured cover stock with french flaps and a sewn perfect binding.

Book 1 contains a fold-out insert poster and color pages at the front of the book, as well as an afterword and essay. Books 2 and 3 contain color sections at the beginning of the volume, and a cover gallery and afterword respectively.

Translation by rkp
Lettering by Tim Sun
Editing and Design by emuh ruh

The set includes

vol 1 ISBN   978-1-953629-40-1
vol 2 ISBN   978-1-953629-41-8
vol 3 ISBN   978-1-953629-42-5

[UPDATE →] These books are only available to ship to the USA. If you wish to place an order for the books from outside of this region you will need to choose a shipping address within it (e.g., a friend’s address, a parcel forwarding service, or similar). If the available shipping regions change this listing will be updated.

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A5 | approx 100 pages | french flaps with foil spot covers | monochrome + color pages

There used to be many werewolves, but now only few remain.. here is detailed the tragic fate of werewolf twins Skoll and Hati in this, the final testament to the moon.

“I want to hurry and grow up…”

Also Recommended: False Stars by Sayaka Mogi.

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Torch Manga-Award winning post-QAnon manga about the brutal fallout of the 2022 assassination of former prime minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, viral posts and social media lynching, conspiracy theories, and how these all come to intersect on a totally normal jobless guy and a high schooler.

ISBN 978-1-953629-38-8

Translation by Ryan Holmberg
Lettering by Lauren Eldon
Editing by Ryan Holmberg and emuh ruh
Design by emuh ruh.

• 248 pages sewn binding A5 format softcover with french flaps
• cream interior paper stock
• monochrome interiors (black ink), color covers
• back matter contains an interview with the author, by Zach Godin and Ryan Holmberg (translation + interpretation)

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Speech balloons, or balloons for short, are objects that appear once spoken, showing the speaker’s exact words right near them. Balloons and the language they show are controlled by the black towers. There exist approximately 6900 in the world, and within them…

Their newest work, ohuton’s SEASIDE BETA is a contemporary coming of age / Sci-Fi comic inspired by the Sci-Fi classic Flatland. Seaside Beta is story about a story within a story that is unraveled within itself. The quest for “color”, and the obsessive search for “an escape” into the “real”.

A startling work that glimmers with the depiction of childish youth and the occult. A physics mystery about individuals’ attempt to escape from the very pages of the comic itself.

ISBN 978-1-953629-37-1

Translation by rkp
Lettering by Lauren Eldon
Editing and Design by emuh ruh

Specifications

• Sewn binding
• French (gatefold) flap cover
• Deluxe paper stock for cover and internal text block
• Spot ink cover printing with partial relief varnish
• Monochrome and color page interior printing
• Approx. 260 pages

Nominated for 2025 ‘Best Publication Design’ at the Japan Society x AnimeNYC American Manga Awards

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Luca no longer approaches the human cities like she sometimes would… These days, it’s rare to even see the silhouette of a ship. It’s as if I’ve wandered into a completely different world…

A dolphin wanders the quiet tributaries of Tokyo. A green-haired girl carrying her father’s blade disappears into the night. A dream of a world as unkind as our own, and a story of the youth forever cast down with the burden of their forebearers.

This is the world of orichalcum, the mysterious, seemingly unlimited power of the Tritons, and the world of Poseidon, whose dominion continuously extends, reaching inexorably into the heart of all living things.

ISBN 978-1-953629-35-7

Translation by zhuchka
Lettering by Tim Sun
Editing and Design by emuh ruh

Specifications

• Sewn binding
• French (gatefold) flap cover
• Deluxe cream-tinted paper stock for cover and internal text block
• Multiple spot ink cover printing with partial relief varnish
• Approx 430 pages

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