Gekiga
The alternative side of gekiga: Yoshiharu Tsuge, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Seiichi Hayashi, Sanpei Shirato, and Shigeru Mizuki's stranger work.
Part of Underground Comics
56 moments in this segment.
- - つげ義春 Yoshiharu Tsuge From "Reading the Garo (ガロ) Era,"broadcast in 1997. A fragment of a television programme on the magazine's readers and writers, with Tsuge on screen at a point when he had already stopped publishing new work.
- - つげ義春ワールド 無能の人 前篇 1998/07/27. The first half of a broadcast on Munou no Hito, following the stone seller who cannot sell stones and the household that thins around him.
- - 紅い花op. A short animated opening made from Akai Hana, moving the river and the girl minding the shop into motion.
- - Yoshihiro Tatsumi interviewed by Adrian Tomine 1. Adrian Tomine questions Yoshihiro Tatsumi on stage at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival about Tezuka, the earliest gekiga years and the autobiography he had then just completed.
- - Yoshihiro Tatsumi and the creation of gekiga - mastersofmanga.com. Speaking to camera, the artist recalls what the rental manga trade was like in the 1950s and how he and the others around him launched the work they began calling gekiga.
- - GC Artists' Spotlight #1: Eric Khoo, Director of TATSUMI. Eric Khoo discusses bringing Tatsumi's stories to the Tokyo festival, and what a Singaporean director found in postwar Osaka worth animating.
- - 「ねじ式」予告篇. A Kumamoto theatre company called Yumesajiki stages its own version of Nejishiki, condensed here into a digest of the production.
- - 「紅い花」（つげ義春）映画ゲンセンカン主人（1993年石井輝男監督）より. An excerpt from Teruo Ishii's 1993 film of Tsuge stories, this passage drawn from Akai Hana about a girl at a river crossing.
- - ゲンセンカン主人（つげ義春） 冒頭 石井輝男. The opening minutes of Teruo Ishii's film, setting the traveller on the road toward the inn where he will meet his double.
- - Lucca Comics & Games 2012 - Yoshihiro Tatsumi - Alle Origini del Gekiga. An Italian festival segment on Tatsumi as the central figure among the young Osaka artists who changed what comics could carry from the 1950s.
- - つげ義春の蒸発旅日記（予告編）. Trailer for Isao Yamada's film of Johatsu Tabinikki, the travel essay in which Tsuge drifts through provincial inns and strip theatres, here in a recut with the stage scenes extended.
- - TATSUMI Trailer | New Release 2013. A festival trailer for the animated feature, showing the plain drawing style used to carry Tatsumi's autobiographical short stories.
- - 映画「無能の人」劇場予告. Trailer for Naoto Takenaka's 1991 film of Munou no Hito, in which a failed cartoonist tries to sell river stones to passers by, scored by Gontiti.
- - 映画TATSUMI－タツミ（マンガに革命を起こした男）国内トレーラー. A domestic trailer setting out how the film animates Gekiga Hyoryu together with five short stories Tatsumi published in the 1970s.
- - 別所哲也さんからのメッセージ－映画「TATSUMI」公開記念. Tetsuya Bessho, who voiced six roles in the animated Tatsumi, records a message for the Japanese release of the film.
- - ＜劇画の生みの親＞ 辰巳ヨシヒロトークショー. Yoshihiro Tatsumi speaks at the Kyoto International Manga Museum about putting the word gekiga on a cover in 1957 to separate his adult, cinematic short stories from children's manga.
- - [アングラ紹介]つげ義春、紅い花. An introduction to Akai Hana centred on the gap between a boy still playing pranks and a girl already past that, told in an afternoon by a river.
- - [アングラ紹介]つげ義春、ねじ式. An introduction to Nejishiki that treats its reach as the evidence, counting how often the story has been parodied by people who half remember it.
- - マンガにおける劇画ジャンルを築いた辰巳ヨシヒロのアニメドキュメンタリー！映画『TATSUMI マンガに革命を起こした男』予告編. The Japanese trailer for Eric Khoo's animated feature, framing Tatsumi's move from postwar poverty into the form he named gekiga.
- - 調布市、つげ義春＜ねじ式＞回廊をめぐって. A walk around the Chofu corridor display built from Nejishiki panels, following the sequence as it runs along the wall.
- - 水木さんは「大きな人間」 妻布枝さん、心境語る. Nunoe Mura speaks two weeks after the death of her husband Shigeru Mizuki, describing a man who lived without pretence and kept working into his nineties.
- - つげ義春はなぜ懐かしいか Part2 (ゲンセンカン主人、ねじ式、アングラ、寺山修司）つげ＋秋蛇星ワールド. An essay film reading Gensenkan Shujin and Nejishiki against the seaside and hot spring settings they draw on, scored with poetry by Shuji Terayama.
- - 実写版【解説付き】つげ義春 『無能の人』より 第4話「探石行」に登場する虚無僧ってどんな人たち？. An annotated look at the stone selling chapters of Munou no Hito, explaining the komuso monks who appear in the fourth episode and their basket hats.
- - つげ義春「無能の人」ラストシーンが身に沁みる～お寺の鐘がゴーン （低音版）. The closing moments of Munou no Hito with a temple bell over them, isolated from the rest of the adaptation.
- - 懐かしい街頭紙芝居 「ミスターともちゃん」 白土三平さんの作品. A surviving street kamishibai board from Mister Tomo-chan, drawn around 1951 when Noboru Okamoto was nineteen, years before he took the name Sanpei Shirato.
- - つげ義春『ねじ式』実演フィルム!「ボキン金太郎」「なるほど募金、金太郎」「ではごきげんよう」「達者でな」〝Screw style〝Yoshiharu Tsuge [OldFashion版]. A short film restages lines from Nejishiki with actors, reproducing the story's clipped exchanges in a shopping street.
- - つげ義春『発表50周年記念 ねじ式 原寸大複製原画集』. Shinchosha presents a full size reproduction portfolio of the original art for Nejishiki, which ran in Garo in June 1968, issued in a numbered edition of 81 copies.
- - SPX 2018 Panel -Gekiga à la Mode: Ryan Holmberg on Baron Yoshimoto. Ryan Holmberg uses Baron Yoshimoto's The Troublemakers to argue that gekiga ran alongside 1960s men's fashion and imported playboy styles, not only the underclass grit it is usually reduced to.
- - Alternative Manga and GEKIGA. An overview episode moving from the rental book origins into the artists and magazines that carried the alternative strand afterwards.
- - 【必見!! 「ねじ式」魅惑のオープニング映像】. An animated opening made from Nejishiki panels, shown at the Roppongi launch event for the complete works, with Mamoru Oshii among the speakers.
- - 120+ Pages Created In Under A Month! Gekiga Master Yoshihiro Tatsumi's Black Blizzard. A close read of Black Blizzard, the 1956 rental book Yoshihiro Tatsumi drew at speed in under a month, tracing how its cinematic cutting pointed toward what he would later call gekiga.
- - インタビューだけでニュースになる！伝説の漫画家 つげ義春の基礎知識. A primer on why an interview with Yoshiharu Tsuge counted as news, covering his long withdrawals from drawing and the complete works Kodansha began issuing in 2020.
- - Alternative Manga & Gekiga Collection 2021. A collector pulls alternative and gekiga volumes off the shelf one at a time, holding each open long enough to show the drawing inside.
- - The Review No One Asked For Episode 3 - The Swamp - Yoshiharu Tsuge. A short account of the 2020 collection of early Tsuge stories, and where it sits in the sequence of volumes still being issued.
- - 「共振界だより」vol.6 ゲスト・ 高野慎三：つげ義春を愛して愛して半世紀超え。「ねじ式」の「メメクラゲ」を産み出した張本人から聞く、とても貴重でとてもとても興味深いお話の数々。. Shinzo Takano of Hokuto Shobo, the editor who supplied the word memekurage for the jellyfish in Nejishiki, spends an hour on half a century of reading and working with Tsuge.
- - 愛と青春に敗北した若者の必読書！林静一『赤色エレジー』が切なスゴすぎる【ガロ系】. A long reading of Seiichi Hayashi's Akai Elegy, following Ichiro and Sachiko through a cohabitation that neither ambition nor affection manages to hold together.
- - 「カムイ伝」や「サスケ」漫画家・白土三平さん死去(2021年10月26日). Broadcast notice that Sanpei Shirato died on 8 October 2021 aged 89, recalling the 1959 Ninja Bugeicho that made his name, with a funeral held for family only at his own request.
- - 【追悼】忍者漫画の巨匠「白戸三平」「岡本鉄二」両先生が死去されました / R.I.P Sanpei Shirato, Tetsuji Okamoto.. A memorial account noting that Noboru Okamoto debuted in 1957, that Garo was launched by Seirindo in 1964 to carry Kamui-den, and that he set up Akame Production for the work.
- - 【👆Yoshiko Sai 4K🔍】📖紅い花✿つげ義春🎵曲のヒントになった✒漫画原作👍デビュー初版1967 - Manga🌹Akai Hana👩Red Flowers✨佐井好子❤弾き語り🎸貴重ライヴ. Yoshiko Sai explains that reading Akai Hana in the October 1967 Garo gave her the song of the same title, then performs it alone with a guitar.
- - 【つげ義春全集6】『ねじ式』とは何だったのか？夢と狂気を亮人と未散が考察する. Two readers work through the sixth volume of the collected works, setting Nejishiki beside Gensenkan Shujin, Arubaito and Komatsumisaki no Seikatsu.
- - サンデーマンガ倶楽部のアフタートーク。辰巳ヨシヒロ『劇画漂流』編. A podcast aftertalk on Gekiga Hyoryu, the serialised autobiography in which Yoshihiro Tatsumi recounts the Osaka rental manga years and the short lived Gekiga Kobo studio of 1959.
- - Yoshiharu Tsuge! [CEM MANGAKÁS #64]. A Portuguese language profile placing Tsuge in the I-novel tradition, putting pieces of his own life into stories that still refuse to work as biography.
- - Vintage Manga Collection: 1961 Shirato Sanpei Ninja Kashihon. Five surviving rental copies of Ninja Bugeicho issue eight from 1961 are turned over on camera, the cheap paper and lending-library stamps still on them.
- - 【まんが史】1950年代に登場し、その後まんが界を席巻した『劇画』とは何か？. How the form emerged from kasutori magazines, red books and the rental trade, through Hinomaru Bunko and the short lived Gekiga Kobo with its published manifesto.
- - 水木プロダクションの挑戦 前編 ｜ VECTOR magazine INTERVIEW. Staff at Mizuki Productions walk through the centenary programme, covering the yokai exhibition, the stage and film adaptations, and the renovated memorial museum in Sakaiminato.
- - Black Blizzard by Yoshihiro Tatsumi - A deep dive into a classic #manga (gekiga 劇画) #mangareview. A detailed look at Black Blizzard of 1956, two convicts chained together in flight, read as the moment Tatsumi's page layouts started behaving like film.
- - A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi - an autobiography in #manga form. A long examination of A Drifting Life, the autobiography in which Tatsumi retraces his Osaka apprenticeship and the arguments that shaped the gekiga label.
- - 水木しげる「サイボーグ」は日本初のサイボーグ漫画！Shigeru Mizuki's Cyborg.
- - 幽霊ではありませんか！至高の不条理マンガ『ゲンセンカン主人』つげ義春. A close reading of Gensenkan Shujin, the story Tsuge ran in Garo in July 1968, in which a traveller at a hot spring inn may be meeting his own double.
- - マンガ家・つげ義春のいるところ展 ＜トークイベント つげ義春への偏愛を語る＞期間限定公開. Art historian Yuji Yamashita and curator Hajime Nariai spend a Chofu talk event on why Yoshiharu Tsuge's landscapes hold attention, recorded in the hall above the exhibition.
- - 【訃報】漫画家・つげ義春さん（88）死去 誤えん性肺炎で 「ねじ式」や「無能の人」などで根強いファン獲得 世界的にも評価｜TBS NEWS DIG. Chikumashobo confirms the death of Yoshiharu Tsuge on 3 March 2026 at 88 from aspiration pneumonia, noting the Angouleme special honour he received in 2020.
- - 【追悼】つげ義春さん「ねじ式」「紅い花」「無能の人」など. A memorial run through Nejishiki, Akai Hana and Munou no Hito, assembled after the death of their author at 88.
- - 竹内義和｜つげ義春死去…「ねじ式」と「カムイ外伝」は何が違うのか？. A talk recorded after Tsuge's death setting Nejishiki beside Kamui Gaiden, asking why one explains itself and the other refuses to.
- - つげ義春とねじ式。芸術に到達した漫画家。Yoshiharu Tsuge and Neji-Shiki: The Manga Artist Who Elevated Manga to Art.. An argument that Nejishiki pushed comics into art, following the boy whose arm vein is severed by a jellyfish bite as he hunts a doctor through a fishing village and finds only eye specialists.
- - 三浦小太郎 学際探求チャンネル 第21回 つげ義春「無能の人」の魅力的な世界. A critic spends a session on Munou no Hito, arguing that the stone seller's failure is the point rather than an obstacle the story intends to clear.
- - 誰にも言えない夏の一時を描いた傑作マンガ/つげ義春『紅い花』/週刊ブックレビュー2026年5月21日. A reading group works through Akai Hana, in which a boy and a girl at a mountain river pass a single afternoon that neither can afterwards name.