Gekiga

is a style of Japanese comics aimed at adult audiences and marked by a more cinematic art style and more mature themes. Gekiga was the predominant style of adult comics in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. It is aesthetically defined by sharp angles, hatching, and gritty lines, and thematically by realism, social engagement, maturity, and masculinity.

Japanese manga series

Japanese manga series

media franchise

manga series

Japanese manga series

1954–1988 Japanese manga series by Osamu Tezuka

1969 television anime

alternative manga magazine

manga series by Osama Tezuka

manga

manga series

1970 manga series by Shotaro Ishinomori

Japanese manga series

manga series

Japanese manga series

Japanese manga series

Japanese manga series

1972–1976 manga

Japanese manga

manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka

manga series

Japanese manga

, also Screw Style or Screwceremony, is a Japanese surrealist manga written and illustrated by Yoshiharu Tsuge. follows the story of an unnamed boy who wanders around several unfamiliar places to find a doctor who can fix his pierced artery. The manga was first published in the manga anthology magazine in 1968 amidst a growing art movement and student political radicalism. Tsuge has provided various accounts of the story's development, but often refers to it as a dream. During his time working on the story he was also employed as an assistant to Shigeru Mizuki and adopted different philosophic