GoGo Monster
Volume cover
GOGOモンスター
(Gōgō Monsutā)
Genre
Manga
Written byTaiyō Matsumoto
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
DemographicSeinen
PublishedOctober 23, 2000
Volumes1

GoGo Monster (Japanese: GOGOモンスター, Hepburn: Gōgō Monsutā) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto.

Plot

In an elementary school, more and more unfortunate events accumulate. The third grader Yuki claims to have a connection with and visions about a parallel world and he claims that the unfortunate series of events are connected to this parallel world. Creatures form another world would live on the last floor of school. The fifth grader IQ, who is a prodigy in mathematics and wears a cardboard box over his head at all times, sees Yuki as a mentally ill and lonely person, but hangs out with him. Both IQ and Yuki are mostly excluded in their classes. Yuki's classmate Makoto is friends with him.

Publication

A seinen manga,[3] GoGo Monster was published by Shogakukan in a single tankōbon volume on October 23, 2000.[4]

The release of an English-language version of GoGo Monster was announced by Viz Media in February 2009;[5] the publisher released it on November 17 of that same year.[6] In October 2023, Viz Media announced that they would reprint the manga.[7]

The manga was also translated into Spanish,[8] French,[9] and German.[10]

Reception

GoGo Monster won the Special Award at the 30th Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 2001.[11] In 2006, the manga earned a nomination for Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Artwork, which it lost to Le vol du corbeau by Jean-Pierre Gibrat.[12] It was nominated to the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel but David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp won it.[13]

The manga was generally received positively by critics, including Deb Aoki of About.com,[1] Joseph Luster of Otaku USA,[14] Oliver Ho of PopMatters,[15] Publishers Weekly,[16] and Shaenon K. Garrity.[17] Erin Finnegan of Anime News Network called it "one of the best manga of 2009."[18] The Comics Reporter's staff elected it the 9th best comic of the year.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c Aoki, Deb. "GoGo Monster". About.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  2. ^ "The Official Website for GoGo Monster". Viz Media. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  3. ^ Alverson, Brigid (February 9, 2010). "Viz Signature and Manga for Grownups". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on July 15, 2016. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  4. ^ GOGOモンスター (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  5. ^ "Viz Adds Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Boys over Flowers Epilogue". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 9, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  6. ^ "GoGo Monster". Viz Media. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  7. ^ Mateo, Alex (October 13, 2023). "Viz Media Licenses Battle Royale: Enforcers, Naruto: Konoha's/Sasuke's Story, Star Wars: Visions, More Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 13, 2023. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  8. ^ "GoGo Monster". www.eccediciones.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  9. ^ "Gogo Monster - Manga série". manga-news.com (in French). Archived from the original on July 24, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  10. ^ "GoGo Monster". Reprodukt (in German). Archived from the original on July 24, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  11. ^ 協会賞案内 / 歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Japan Cartoonists Association. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  12. ^ "Le palmarès 2006" (in French). ToutenBD.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  13. ^ "2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  14. ^ Luster, Joseph (February 9, 2010). "GoGo Monster". Otaku USA. Sovereign Media. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  15. ^ Ho, Oliver (June 7, 2010). "Four-Eyed Stranger #11: "The Light Is Full of Blood"". PopMatters. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  16. ^ "Comics Reviews: 11/23/09". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. November 23, 2009. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  17. ^ Garrity, Shaenon K. (December 11, 2014). "Gogo Monster - House of 1000 Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  18. ^ "Home Alone - Shelf Life". Anime News Network. December 28, 2009. Archived from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  19. ^ "CR Sunday Feature: Best Of 2009". The Comics Reporter. April 4, 2010. Archived from the original on January 15, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2014.

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Works by Taiyō Matsumoto
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