Lonely Moon [Updated2]

Just Wet Moon this week, folks. We might get Saltiness and Tokyo Kaido done tomorrow so... stay tuned.

Wet Moon ch. 20

UPDATE

Ackshuallllly, Tokyo Kaido showed up

Tokyo Kaido ch. 20

ALRIGHT HERE'S SALTINESS

I guess you could say we had a ...rocky week he he he... But the three chapters sure do... rock he he he.

Hopefully you'll still consider our schedule rock solid(he he he) as we still managed to release the three chapters on sunday

Saruchinesu ch. 8

Respect my authoritah

What? What?! Whaaaat?!?

Interesting development right there at the end

And with this, the second volume of Tokyo Kaido is done. Onwards to the third and final volume

Tokyo Kaido ch. 19

and of course

Tokyo Kaido vol. 2

More text on these covers than in the actual chapter, eh? Great chapter though

Wet Moon ch. 19

 And now a new chapter of Concentrated Weaponized Autism: the manga

Saruchinesu ch. 7

Everyone has a mission

These last couple of chapters have been sooo so good, this is Kaneko at his best imo.
I gotta be honest, I really like Minoru Furuya's art, it's surprisingly detailed in Saltiness and his faces are amazing but he does use the drawings much more as a tool to get his stories out there.
Mochizuki on the other hand is a better storyteller, he's really great at constructing a page and breaking down the panels and he can be very subtle with body language and stuff, the ending to chapter 9 is incredible and I got chills just writing this down, the pace, "I want to believe" just... wow... wow!
But for my money, Atsushi Kaneko is the best artist out of the three, flat out just art, he's incredible. He sucks you into the pages and when that black pages comes up it hits you like a punch.
Oh and btw that was the end of the second volume, one more left!

Wet Moon ch. 18
and
Wet Moon Vol. 2



Everyone wants to be like Hashi. But I'm with Hideo, step out of the pages and make a real life manga, Hashi! I would read the heck out of it! This is important!!!

Tokyo Kaido ch. 18



Show me the monee~eey!
This chapter is where Minoru really spells out his themes and what he's going for in this manga, I mean precisely what he's going for.
I must confess, I burst out laughing for a couple of minutes on a page in this chapter, and it's not even so much what he says but how he said it.

Saltiness ch. 6

Fitting in is hard...

I really like this chapter, one of my favorite chapters of Wet Moon so far.

 Wet Moon ch. 17



Aspiring panty thieves, I hope you have learned your lesson

Saruchinesu ch. 5



There is another world 
There is a better world 
Well, there must be 





















Well, there must be

Tokyo Kaido ch. 17

Return of the King.... of losers

So... Saruchinesu is back, I think you can see what I meant last week about the redraws being a pain in the ass.
This chapter is a Popeye crossover, here's Bluto

Saltiness ch. 4

Anyway, I wanted to mention that Minoru Furuya's career in the 21st century isn't quite as bleak as I kinda foolishly implied a couple of weeks ago. He's not a huge and popular name, but those that like him... REALLY like him. It's become a cliche for me to say this but "he's a bit like The Velvet Underground of manga" in that I think he inspires a lot of people but he probably doesn't tickle the fancy of the average Yuto but apparently he received praise from the likes of Taiyo Matsumoto, Inio Asano or the korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.

https://vasamoto.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/the-furuya-minoru-reinvention/

I actually completely forgot that Asano praised Himizu but I know for sure I read that interview years ago where he says that if he could choose between being a handsome man or a cute girl he'd prefer begin a cute girl.
Anyway, Minoru Furuya, I love that guy! A true suffering artist... He's like a modern day Tsuge. Hope his depression doesn't get as bad as it did with Tsuge though.



Sata is on the run, is he completely alone? can he trust anyone in this town?

Wet Moon ch. 16



This whole chapter/episode/whatever you wanna call it of Tokyo Kaido has been incredible, and as much as I loved the previous two, this one was just... wow for me. The way it build and then climaxes before winding down quietly... Mochizuki is so good and yet for the longest time I had no idea just how good he was... like most, I had only read Dragon Head and that was good and all but wow! Chiisakobe and Tokyo Kaido are incredible, his storytelling skills are impressive, he was always a good artist and a good writer, I'd say, but these two prove that he's a master storyteller.

Tokyo Kaido ch. 16

When backed into a corner, push forward

Miracles happen to everyone at least once, but no one ever notices when they do

Tokyo Kaido ch. 15


Atsushi Kaneko is such an amazing storyteller, I adore that smoke effect on the second page.

Wet Moon ch. 15



Saltiness at a later date because there were a lot of redraws in it and Tokyo Kaido was also a bit rough to do this week.

One must always be on guard

Ya feel lucky, punk?

Wet Moon ch. 14


I always did like the story-within-story and I really do like it when an artist changes his style for a particular section but still, Hashi's manga is sooooo good, I really wish it was real. I think I've said it before, but it's got a real Kazuo Umezu vibe. Very cool.

Tokyo Kaido ch. 14


Now, after the previous chapter ending in a big cliffhanger... what do you think happened? did Nakamaru succeed in making the cop's balls mashed potatoes? It's a brave new world out there for our long haired weirdo, let's see if he can navigate through this jungle all alone

Saruchinesu ch. 3