AX
Seirinkogeisha, founded in 1997 by former Seirindo staff after Garo collapsed, and AX, which it has published every two months since 1998. Noriko Tezuka was Garo's deputy editor from 1995, then AX's editor-in-chief and the company's president; she died on 12 October 2025 and is the institutional link between the two magazines.
Part of Underground Comics
28 moments in this segment.
- - しりあがり寿『漫画少年ドヴァイ』展メイキング Shiriagari making of the movie 2009年. Behind the scenes on Manga Shonen Dovai, the show Kotobuki Shiriagari curated in a Shizuoka primary school building with four other artists inventing a fictional pupil's career.
- - Sean Michael Wilson - AX alternative manga. The Scottish writer who assembled the English AX collection for Top Shelf introduces it from Japan, explaining what he chose from the magazine's back run and why.
- - AX Alternative Manga Review. A review of the Top Shelf and Seirinkogeisha collection, holding up interior pages to show how far the drawing styles diverge between one contributor and the next.
- - トロミちゃん THE TOROBAKO GIRL. A short promotional piece for Toromi-chan, a volume published by Seirinkogeisha.
- - Ax alternative manga magazine. Volume 115. Featured artist: Tadao Tsuge. A short look at issue 115 of the bimonthly AX, whose featured artist is Tadao Tsuge, the younger brother of Yoshiharu and a chronicler of blood banks and day labourers.
- - 林遣都・栁俊太郎・前野朋哉『チェリーボーイズ』予告！. Trailer for a film adapted from Tomohiro Koizumi's Cherry Boys, a Seirinkogeisha book about three men in their mid twenties and the schemes they talk themselves into.
- - 90s Japanese Manga Special - AX Magazine. A collector's survey of the magazine as it stood in the late 1990s, shortly after the former Garo staff set up Seirinkogeisha and began publishing it.
- - VÉRITÉ 01 - Comics for Adults. The first issue of the Verite anthology, placing Tadao Tsuge and Susumu Katsumata alongside Indian contributors in a single book for adult readers.
- - 【ゆるっと漫画紹介】僕の小規模な生活. Shigeyuki Fukumitsu's Boku no Shokibo na Seikatsu, an autobiographical serial about scraping by as a cartoonist, from an artist whose first four books came out through Seirinkogeisha between 2003 and 2007 before Kodansha took him on.
- - 【全人類の短編集】ラスト・ワルツ/島田虎之介 レビュー x Learn Japanese. A reading of Toranosuke Shimada's Last Waltz, a Seirinkogeisha collection whose short stories thread separate lives through shared historical moments.
- - 【Advanced/Review】『東京命日』/ 島田虎之介 マンガレビュー. Toranosuke Shimada's Tokyo Meinichi read closely, following how its chapters link deaths and anniversaries across a single city.
- - サンデーマンガ倶楽部 Ep.13 掘道広『おれは短大出』を語ろう！. A podcast on Michihiro Hori's Ore wa Tandaide, which ran in AX for the better part of eight years before Seirinkogeisha collected it in one volume in 2020.
- - The Manga Show! (Ep14) Iijima, Ax Mag, Nagai Go, Unboxing, & Ukio-e vs. Bloody Ukio-e. A bookseller's episode covering the AX magazine 25th anniversary exhibition, early gekiga by Shiro Iijima, and Bloody Ukiyo-e, the woodblock print collaboration between Suehiro Maruo and Kazuichi Hanawa.
- - しりあがり寿先生の展示「焚書坑寿」の作品について語ります。. Kotobuki Shiriagari talks through Funsho Koju, the 2022 solo show in which he burned printed words and kept only what survived the fire as the finished pieces.
- - AX Vol. One - Alternative Manga. A run through the first English AX volume, naming the contributors gathered into it and what the selection suggests about the magazine's range.
- - Horror Manga Spotlight: Day of Salvation by Nishioka Kyoudai!. A full reading of Day of Salvation by Nishioka Kyodai, the brother and sister pair whose stark figures and blank grounds appeared in Seirinkogeisha's pages.
- - The Manga Magazine Series: AX Issue 8!. Issue 8 of AX turned through in order, carrying Yusaku Hanakuma's Tokyo Zombie, a Kazuichi Hanawa story, Kotobuki Shiriagari and Osamu Kanno's Tamahime-sama.
- - 本を紹介する番組⭐️クジカラジオ 第3回 比嘉慂 著『マブイ』『砂の剣』（青林工藝舎）. A bookshop programme on Susumu Higa's Mabui and Suna no Tsurugi, Okinawan war and postwar stories published by Seirinkogeisha, noting both were out of print at the publisher.
- - The Manga Magazine Series: AX Issue 25!. The February 2002 issue turned through, carrying two Toshio Saeki strips, one of them a version of Genius Bakabon written by Shintaro Kou, beside Jun Miura's Aiden and Titi.
- - The Manga Magazine Series: AX Issue 101!. The November 2014 number turned in order, running Atsushi Kamimura, Yukiko Matsui's Princess Mayonnaise and an instalment of Nami Fujieda's Nishinari Diary.
- - 青林工藝舎『アックス』とは…？. A compressed introduction to the comics magazine Seirinkogeisha publishes, laying out what sort of work fills it and how it differs from commercial monthlies.
- - ミッションはとってもインポッシブル大作戦. A channel announces a series made with Seirinkogeisha's cooperation and asks AX contributors near Tokyo to appear on camera, offering to film them without showing their faces.
- - アックス第166号発売！. Three contributors, Migiwa Shimizu, Satoko Tsugawa and Koichi Matsuda, sit in the editorial office to walk through the new issue of what they call the only alternative comics magazine left in Japan.
- - 💔📚【訃報】青林工藝舎の魂・手塚能理子さん逝去🙏✨「アックス」で切り開いた自由な漫画の世界🎨💫70年の情熱と愛に包まれた人生💐🕊️. Noriko Tezuka, who founded Seirinkogeisha and edited AX after serving as deputy editor at Garo from 1995, died on 12 October 2025 at the age of 69.
- - GLI ZOMBIE INVADONO IL GIAPPONE | Tokyo Zombie di Yusaku Hanakuma | MANGA TIME!. An Italian segment on Yusaku Hanakuma's Tokyo Zombie, drawn in a deliberately ungrammatical heta-uma line and first serialised in AX from 1998.
- - 3月7日村岡マサヒロ真夜中のネタ帳_75. Migiwa Shimizu, who serialises BLUE FLOUR in the magazine, gives her first radio interview and talks about how she came to draw for it and about the editor who died the previous year.
- - 青林工藝舎・アックス第169号. Issue 169 is given over to the late editor, opening with a conversation between Takashi Nemoto and Jun Miura about the Garo years and her last days, followed by messages from the artists who worked with her.
- - The Manga Magazine Series: AX Issue 63!. Issue 63 turned page by page, carrying a Danny Boy chapter by Toranosuke Shimada alongside Shizuka Nakano, Takao Kawasaki and Shiiko Suzuki.