Week 3: Gekiga

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I personally never read or watch anime with Gekiga style illustration, only the traditional style illustrations. This particular style doesn't catch my interest in any manga or anime. It's more on the cartoony side, not as much detail but more comical. One example of what the style looks like is a manga called Cigarette Girl. It's a short story manga collection and made by the one and only Masahiko Matsumoto. Each short story is definitely weird and out the ordinary a little. Like the one where the guy literally goes to a cigarette shop just to see a girl and he doesn't even smoke.

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