It is also the only manga I have ever seen that has an index. Someday, I told myself, I'd find a way to commit this dreamland hyperspace to a story or a drawing, but panpanya beat me most of the way to it with An Invitation From A Crab. All of them familiar and alien at the same time, much like the things that parade past me in those hybrid spaces. I find myself in an environment that seems assembled from slices of various spaces in my life - schools, airports, hotels, city neighborhoods, hometown streets, shops, bedrooms, living rooms. Recently, Denpa has announced they’ve licensed panpanya’s most recent collection, Guyabano Holiday, for english release.On some evenings, after dinner but long before bedtime, I doze off briefly. Their debut english collection, Denpa’s “Invitation by a Crab”, was well-received and Panpanya’s art was also selected for exhibition in the 2019 British CITI Museum Manga exhibit. Regarding panpanya, their reputation has spread internationally as well. To be clear, due to the forethought in the booklet construction, it is possible to separate the pages and simultaneously display all 7 illustrations (or their promotional text-overlain counterparts) as separate posters, as they are each printed onto separate sheets. It also includes: an additional pencilled version of one of the poster illustrations (without text overlay), and a single page dedicated to collecting 5 poster illustrations of panpanya’s beloved “karp streamer” (koi nobori-kun).
This “booklet” was produced for the Siryousei Expo 10th anniversary, and consists of seven (7!!!) luxuriously beautiful “pure” illustrations by panpanya, as well as separately the corresponding “informational poster” versions (with promotional text + design info). A large booklet of ‘poster size’ ~A3 (approx 12″ x 18″) illustration work by indie mangaka darling panpanya, whose japanese debut collected doujin works made the annual ‘kono manga ga sugoi’ industry select list, even while under a limited distribution.
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