Best-selling mangaka Hikaru Nakamura (Saint Young Men) makes her English language debut with this surreal comedy starring a 620-year-old water sprite, a man with a star for a head, a nun, and a samurai who runs a barber shop under Tokyo's Arakawa Bridge.
Born in 1984, in the artisan filled city of Shizuoka, Hikaru
Nakamura is one of the top selling manga artists today. Since 2001,
when she was only 16 years old, Nakamura was already making
headways in the world of manga. Her first series Nakamura
Factory was a mini-hit for Japanese publishers SquareEnix. She
would follow that up with Arakawa Under the Bridge, which would
eventually be adapted into an animated television series.
While Arakawa was her break-through, her next work Saint Young
Men would take her to a level of success not seen in Japan in
years Attack on Titan and Naruto in the process having sold more
than ten million units. Arakawa Under the Bridge is her
English language debut, but she has been published throughout
Europe and Asia for years.
"Fans of the anime will of course be delighted to finally read the original manga version, but any fans of top notch comedy manga will find plenty to enjoy as well. With a brilliant sense of humour and perfect artwork, this is a new series well worth picking up." -- The Turnaround Blog
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