As every year, the Angoulême festival announces the titles selected in the different categories of its festival.
Therefore, we have gathered in this article, the manga nominated in this selection!
Heritage Selection 2017
The Divorcees' Club
Author : Kazuo Kamimura
Seller : Kana
Number of volumes : 2 volumes completed series
Price: 18 € per volume of 500 pages
Synopsis :
Author Kazuo Kamimura tackles a taboo that is still alive in Japanese society: divorce.
The "Club des Divorcés" is a small bar in Ginza run by Yukô, a 25-year-old divorced woman. She becomes the "mama" of the bar after her divorce in order to support her three-year-old daughter. In this two-volume series, we discover the difficult daily life of a hostess, boss and divorced woman in Japan in the 70s.
In Tokyo, young Yuko runs a bar where different regulars, divorced like her, gather to drink late into the night in the hope of forgetting their worries and the shame they feel. In this manga made at the dawn of the 1970s, Kamimura vigorously denounces the opprobrium that is thrown in Japan on divorced women…
Youth selection 2017
Ichiko and Niko
Author : Lunlun Yamamoto
Seller : Kana
Number of volumes : 5 volumes in France, current series
Price : 7,90 €
Synopsis :
Ichiko and Niko are twins who live in a mushroom house role. It's normal: Their father is an inventor and he creates all kinds of wacky machines to help the city. But one day, lightning strikes their house and their father becomes a stuffed animal! The Mocco plush moves, speaks, continues to develop new inventions… and Ichiko and Niko's life becomes even more fun!
Living through their eyes the daily life of children, this is the challenge of this offbeat manga where Ichiko and Niko, the amazing Japanese cousins of Tom-Tom and Nana, offer their craziest inventions. With his pop and colorful drawing, Lunlun Yamamoto makes a clever and inventive album without ever losing sight of the zany humor that delights young readers.
My Hero Academia
Author : Kohei Horikoshi
Seller : Ki-oon
Number of volumes : 6 volumes in France, current series
Price : 6,60 €
Synopsis :
In a world where 80% of the population has a superpower called alter, heroes are part of everyday life. And the supervillains too! In front of them stands the invincible All Might, the most powerful of heroes! The young Izuku Midoriya is an absolute fan. He has only one dream: to enter the Hero Academia to follow in the footsteps of his idol. The problem is that he is one of the 20% who have no power… His destiny is turned upside down the day his path crosses that of All Might himself! The latter offers him an unexpected chance to see his dream come true. For Izuku, the obstacle course has only just begun!
Become a hero or a supervillain? When almost everyone has a superpower called alter, the question seems quite legitimate. But what happens to those who, like the young Izuku Midoriya, are among the 20% with no power? Skilfully mixing the codes of manga with those of comics made in the USA, Kohei Horikoshi produces a remarkable manga for young people.
Cultura Audience Award 2017
Chiisakobe
Author : Minetaro Mochizuki
Publisher : Le lezard noir
Number of volumes : 4 volumes in France, completed series
Price: 15 €
Synopsis :
A young carpenter, Shigeji, who lost his parents and Daitome, his father's business in a fire, vows to rebuild the business in his father's words: "What is important to people throughout the ages is humanity and strength of will." Shigeji hires Ritsu, who has nowhere to go as an assistant. Some children from an orphanage who have lost their homes also come to Daitome.
After finding success in horror manga, Japanese director Minetarō Mochizuki completely changed his tone and graphic style by adapting a famous novel by Shūgorō Yamamoto. All the richness of his writing is found in this funny and touching human comedy, an intimate story where the line and the precision of the cutting render all the tension of the body language of the characters.
Last Hero Inuyashiki
Author : Hiroya Oku
Seller : Ki-oon
Number of volumes : 6 volumes in France, current series
Price: 7,65 €
Synopsis :
At 58, Ichiro Inuyashiki is far from being a role model for his children. Old before age, despised by all, he has lived all his life as a shabby office worker and has for any friend only his dog Hanako. As if that weren't enough, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer during a routine check-up… It is too much for the poor old man. As he cries in despair in a park in the middle of the night, a blinding light appears… And that's the impact! When he wakes up, lying in the grass, Inuyashiki is no longer the same. He has been transformed into a super-powered cyborg, free to do whatever he wants with his new powers, best or worst. And he's not the only one in this…
Author of the bestselling manga Gantz, Hiroya Oku has chosen for his new series a hero with an unexpected profile: an office worker in his sixties! Suffering from cancer and misunderstood by his relatives, Mr. Inuyashiki finds himself endowed with super-powers and transforms into a robot. He then decides, for the time he has left to live, to do good around him.
The series will be adapted into an anime.
The 2017 Official Selection of the Angoulême Festival
Chiisakobe
Author : Minetaro Mochizuki
Publisher : Le lezard noir
Number of volumes : 4 volumes in France, completed series
Price: 15 €
Synopsis :
A young carpenter, Shigeji, who lost his parents and Daitome, his father's business in a fire, vows to rebuild the business in his father's words: "What is important to people throughout the ages is humanity and strength of will." Shigeji hires Ritsu, who has nowhere to go as an assistant. Some children from an orphanage who have lost their homes also come to Daitome.
After finding success in horror manga, Japanese director Minetarō Mochizuki completely changed his tone and graphic style by adapting a famous novel by Shūgorō Yamamoto. All the richness of his writing is found in this funny and touching human comedy, an intimate story where the line and the precision of the cutting render all the tension of the body language of the characters.
Last Hero Inuyashiki
Author : Hiroya Oku
Seller : Ki-oon
Number of volumes : 6 volumes in France, current series
Price: 7,65 €
Synopsis :
At 58, Ichiro Inuyashiki is far from being a role model for his children. Old before age, despised by all, he has lived all his life as a shabby office worker and has for any friend only his dog Hanako. As if that weren't enough, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer during a routine check-up… It is too much for the poor old man. As he cries in despair in a park in the middle of the night, a blinding light appears… And that's the impact! When he wakes up, lying in the grass, Inuyashiki is no longer the same. He has been transformed into a super-powered cyborg, free to do whatever he wants with his new powers, best or worst. And he's not the only one in this…
Author of the bestselling manga Gantz, Hiroya Oku has chosen for his new series a hero with an unexpected profile: an office worker in his sixties! Suffering from cancer and misunderstood by his relatives, Mr. Inuyashiki finds himself endowed with super-powers and transforms into a robot. He then decides, for the time he has left to live, to do good around him.
Sunny
Author : Taiyou Matsumoto
Seller : Kana
Number of volumes : 6 volumes in France, completed series
Price : 12,70 €
Synopsis :
A reception centre for children in social difficulty is home to very different personalities, but all carry within them a loneliness that they keep deep in their hearts. Their favorite place: an old Nissan "Sunny". The place where everything becomes possible, where imagination has no limits!
An intimate and poetic series, Sunny looks at childhood through the daily lives of the residents of an orphanage. Inspired by the author's early years, this manga is interested in how stories change us, and this intimate narrative, his atypical and generous trait, revealed Taiyou Matsumoto around the world, making this very personal series his probably most accomplished work.
My brother's husband
Author : Gengoroh Tagame
Seller : Akata
Number of volumes : 2 volumes in France, current series
Price : 7,95 €
Synopsis :
Yaichi raises his daughter alone. But one day, his daily life will be disrupted… Disturbed by the arrival of Mike Flanagan in his life. This Canadian is none other than the husband of his twin brother… Following the death of the latter, Mike came to Japan, to make an identity trip to the homeland of the man he loved. Yaichi then has no choice but to welcome this homosexual brother-in-law, towards whom he does not know how to behave. But isn't it said that the truth comes out of the mouths of children? Maybe Kana, with her little girl's look, will be able to give him the right answers…
Master of homoerotic eroticism, Tagame realizes here a manga for the general public that deals with intelligence and sensitivity of homosexuality and the family. After having had an impressive success in Japan in 2015 with this title, the author will participate in the International Festival Meetings in January 2017.
As a reminder, the 44th edition of the Angoulême festival will take place from 26 to 29 January 2017.
