On our other blog, we’re talking manga, ero gekiga and lauding the generosity of strangers. 

thelibraryoflarceny:

While in Tokyo a couple of years ago, we went book-shopping with our friends from Crystal. They took us to Bohemian’s Guild in Jimbocho, where we spent about three hours browsing the arts and design section and lamenting the fact that we couldn’t dive into the literature section, for lack of linguistic proficiency.

At the store worked a great guy whose name escapes me (it’s a diagnosed illness, to be so lame with names, my apologies), friend of our friends. He gave us a bag with the books pictured above ; it was a gift. He said he was done with manga and that what we loved now, he used to love in high school. He was more into French literature and philosophy now, particularly into Claude Simon (a novelist I was unhealthily into when I was in high school, incidentally). 

So we went home very happy, with tons of Maruo books, a couple of Shintaro Kago paperbacks, two great books by Yoshikazu Ebisu and some 80s ero gekiga we didn’t know by Hiromi Hiraguchi and Michio Hisauchi (looking up his name, we found the phrase “masochism poem” and found it good).

We’ll post some scans from the lesser-known books from time to time, for some pages are spectacular. 

Posted at 7:10pm.