ウェブや同人誌即売会で作品を発表し、広い世代から注目を集める新星、初の作品集！
勇者は孤独な里帰り、
女子中学生の天使は進学に悩み、
ケンタウロスは馬車馬のように働く、
今日も大学の上空には竜が飛ぶ―…
あたりまえのように、そこにある非日常。
現実（リアル）と幻想（ファンタジー）が入り混じる「九井ワールド」へご案内！
~あなたの心に届く物語が、きっとあります。~
ウェブや同人誌即売会で発表された7編に加筆修正を加え、描き下ろし2編もあわせて収録。
【収録作品】
『帰郷』
『魔王』
『魔王城問題』
『支配』
『代紺山の嫁探し』
『現代神話』
『進学天使』
『竜の学校は山の上』
『くず』

全方位展现日本漫画崛起的历程
影响数代人的日漫经典世纪收藏本
分析战后日本漫画异军突起的独特原因
详述“漫画之神”手塚治虫的生平与创作
梳理日本漫画各主要流派的风格特点与代表人物
记录10余种统领市场的漫画杂志的兴衰沉浮
500余幅精彩插图，直观感受日本漫画的魅力
英、日、法、德、西、意等十余个版本全球热卖
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本书为读者奉上了1945—2004 年间日本漫画发展的轨迹，作者从战后日本的社会环境和国民心理入手，分析了漫画在日本兴起的原因。其中，有着“漫画之神”之称的手塚治虫功不可没，书中单辟一章，讲述了他的生平和创作。之后，作者分章节论述了日本漫画各主要流派及其代表人物和代表作品，最后一章讨论了漫画在日本文化出口中的地位及漫画的全球影响。此外，本书还拥有丰富的插图，作者广泛收集了漫画领域名画名图，包括众多日本著名漫画杂志的罕见的创刊号。
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回想过去的年代：那时，你只能在偏僻的小店搜罗到专业剧画出租书。读那些书的感觉，可谓十倍的疯狂惨烈，十倍的刺激过瘾。
——三岛由纪夫
现在，我们生活的时代，漫画犹如空气。
——手塚治虫
对我来说，佐佐木真纪的漫画不断冲击着我，为我在内心世界的某个角落打开了一扇窗。佐佐木赋予我们这代人的力量，我要通过我的书传递给下一代。
——村上春树

The observer seeks "Japanese Art", does not speak Japanese, is led to a musty, sparsely-peopled place inhabited by "living national treasures" and other precious monuments to the national character. For that which is sanctioned is subsidized, is seen. This is not that. This is what happened around the three-quarter century mark - that place on the historical clock when maudites emerge. Why? I'll tell you next century. The inks and paper cost almost nothing, which is nearly a crime in some circles. And you could hide them in your desk. Much of Japanese art is about endurance. The rumpled scrawlings of these masters are the denial of endurance (or its homage: ambivalence is here a vocabulary function). But it's all more than you want to read about. Go look, and know that this book is a 4-part miracle. The selection is unimpeachable. Kevin Quigley has eschewed stories that rely on subtle contextual knowledge for their pyrotechnic operation. It must have been a grueling selection process that resulted in a volume that so typifies the form, and can yet be reached by readers at any level of experience. Anyone who has read the originals knows that the translation by Kevin, Hiroko Ikuta Quigley and Umezawa Yoko is brilliantly targeted and illuminative. Ken Swezey and Laura Lindgren of Blast Books are to be credited with producing a volume that confers upon these works the luxurious quality that the artists might have wanted but could never have hoped for when they were impelled to choose this road to spill their ideas upon. And all this for fifteen bucks (that's the fourth part of the miracle).