Finished A Cruel God Reigns (Zankoku Na Kami Ga Shihai Suru) by Moto Hagio. And I'm struggling for words. I've read deep and psychologically disturbing manga before, and this one has all the rights to join their ranks. Its exploration of the topic of abuse and devastating effect it has on a person left me speechless. It goes deep under your skin and stays there, gnawing, troubling. It's visceral, raw and at the same time incredibly artistic. I've never seen depiction of trauma being done in such a crystal clear way. Those manga panels are beautiful but painful all the while. I'm hesitant about its 2nd half and ending and have doubts that I'll ever be able to reread it, but Moto Hagio is deservedly a legend for creating manga like that.

It's like riding a very elaborate elevator, all mirrors and fancy buttons, but it's confined and you know you're descending into darkness in it

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Finally plucked up enough courage to start Moto Hagio's manga A Cruel God Reigns (Zankoku Na Kami Ga Shihai Suru).
The very first page says "Let me tell you about the tragedy". And you know what? I'm 100% sure she's going to deliver on that promise. It's hard to say I wasn't warned, right?
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Have I told you how much I adore The Heart of Thomas. Well I do. Here are photos I took at the exhibition of Moto Hagio in Angouleme. Yes, I cried. I never thought I’d get to see an exhibition by her. #motohagio #heartofthomas

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Je suis content· juste de voir les éblouissantes illustrations de Moto Hagio, mais ici, on a en plus un récit de science-fiction onirique, labyrinthique, complexe et qu'on déplie petit à petit au cours des chapitres et arrivé à la fin de ce premier tome, on ne sait toujours pas où ça va mener, ce qui est vrai et ce qui tient du rêve ce qui complimente certainement la narration impeccable de ce récit.

« Je préfère dessiner des relations amoureuses où il n'y a pas de relation de pouvoir entre les deux parties. Pour moi, la façon la plus simple de faire ça, c'est en utilisant deux garçons. » https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/bd/mangas/festival-bd-d-angouleme-moto-hagio-autrice-avant-gardiste-et-au-dela-des-genres_6329100.html

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Festival BD d'Angoulême : Moto Hagio, autrice avant-gardiste et au-delà des genres

Le Festival d’Angoulême consacre une rétrospective exceptionnelle à la mangaka Moto Hagio, l’une des architectes du manga pour fille (shōjo) et de manière générale du manga.

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US-Comicautor Daniel Clowes beim Comicfestival in Angoulême geehrt

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Moto Hagio, The Heart of Thomas, Seattle / WA (USA) : Fantagraphics, 2012.

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Un des mangas les plus somptueux qu'il m'ait été donné de lire, ce n'est pas étonnant qu'il est considéré comme ayant influencé le genre du shōjo pour les décennies à suivre.

Thirty Years Later: They Were 11 Anime Movie

Based on the manga by Moto Hagio, They Were 11 focuses on young Tada, a teenage boy in the distant future who joins 10 other people from various races aboard a derelict spaceship. Their objective is to get the ship’s systems working and survive the duration of the testing session, thus securing their entrance into the galactic academy and a chance to have a better life.

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Petit Comic 1977.01 Early Spring special Hagio Moto no Sekai. First issue.

1. cover
2. Kono ko urimasu! (Moto Hagio) color illustration.
3. Calendar illustration.

Kono ko urimasu! was first published in #shojo manga magazine Sho-Comi in 1975.

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