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		<title>Black Jack Volume 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this third of the 17 Black Jack books we learn more about the world surrounding Jack. A little more is revealed about his bizarre sidekick Pinoko, who starts to seem like less of an irritant and more of a deeply strange and unusual artefact from Jack&#8217;s history. Some of the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Jack Volume 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unusual to find this in an ongoing series like Black Jack, but this second volume seems somehow deflated after the thrilling ride of the first. Where Volume 1 was a rollercoaster of discovery and revelation, Volume 2 is a comparatively sedentary selection of stories. What they do manage to do, however, is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Jack Volume 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They call him the godfather of manga, and the more of Osamu Tezuka’s work that Vertical puts out, the more you can understand why. Black Jack is an epic 17-volume series that draws heavily on Tezuka&#8217;s surgical knowledge &#8211; he trained as a doctor before embarking on his career as a manga maestro. Black Jack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dororo Volume 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Volume 3 out now Osamu Tezuka is back, albeit from beyond the grave, with a series that first saw publication in Japan in 1967. There&#8217;s little to date though &#8211; this is a timeless Japanese fantasy about a young man called Hyakkimaru, who embarks on a quest to fight a series of demons. Before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka is perhaps best known for manga like Astro Boy but a recent batch of releases are seeing his works for more mature audiences offered to a new generation of readers. MW is a fine example: an incredibly long and detailed journey into the depraved mind of a serial-killing rapist, that&#8217;s every bit as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Kirihito</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Will Eisner in the west, Osamu Tezuka is considered one of the founding fathers of the graphic novel. Ode to Kirihito is undoubtedly one of his masterpieces, standing alongside Buddha as an epic of Japanese graphic literature. The story revolves around Kirihito Osanai, a brilliant but rebellious young doctor, who&#8217;d have a bright future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha Volume 6: Ananda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sixth book in the series of graphic novels charting the life of Buddha introduces a new character to the mix. Ananda is an orphan, saved and protected by a snake demon called Mara, who feels she can use him to eventually eliminate Buddha &#8211; something that no supernatural being is capable of doing. Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha Volume 5: Deer Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Siddartha newly enlightened and now named Buddha, he&#8217;s ready to start sharing his wisdom with other living creatures. Conservative humans are slow to catch on though, so Buddha&#8217;s first flock is a herd of deer, who attentively sit and listen to his sermons on universal suffering. Meanwhile, Tatta and Yatala meet as the champions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha Volume 4: The Forest of Uruvela</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If volume 3 of this fascinating series picked up the pace a bit, this book keeps on running. Siddartha, the Buddha to be, decides to follow Dhepa’s self-damaging and generally accepted path to enlightenment, putting himself through a series of ‘trials’ in the sacred Forest of Uruvela. Without external intervention, these torturous deeds would almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha Volume 3: Devadatta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The epic Buddha series continues with volume three, Devadatta. In it, Siddhartha teams up with Dhepa, the monk who burnt out his eye in the previous book, and Assaji, the runt of a poor family who try and attach him to the two reluctant monks to reduce the number of mouths they have to feed. [...]]]></description>
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