Stylistically intermingling themes of gentrification and rebirth within the setting of a classic yakuza crime drama, Children of Mu-Town follows the course charted by youths of an aging residential housing complex who are struggling for their lives: burdened by financial issues, peer pressure, and uncertain futures, ensnared in the clutches of organized crime, they are searching for a way to survive. When a municipal renovation project seems to offer a future of stability for their dilapidated town, the mysterious and far-reaching consequences that their actions set into motion may leave Juichi and his friends with no option but annihilation…..

A stunning modern “tenement masterpiece” manga, Mu-Town is a story of small town gang intimidation, escalating immigration tensions, political intrigue, and the yearning desperation of youth.

208 pages • General Literature • Manga

Design & Editing: emuh ruh
Translation: rkp
Lettering: Tim Sun

Reviews

The Comics Journal
“…There is an appropriate perfection to Masumura’s draftsmanship, one that becomes more evident the longer you dwell in these pages. and the more often you return to them. In every illustration, one thing will slowly reach your attention as impeccably rendered – each stiffly gestural mark comes alive with the variety of weights and textures applied. The craft on display here has the personality we want when we ask for “alternative” comics or “independent” comics: that beautiful feeling of reading a work of personal observation; lines that feel like a human voice of their own; a pen or brush on paper telling you in every way possible a story about the person whose hand guided such words and pictures into being.”

Comic Books Are Burning in Hell
“…some of the most politically prescient manga now available in English to the discerning reader…”

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