Detroit Metal City, Vol. 1 [With Tattoos]

By 若杉 公徳 and Kiminori Wakasugi

Book Overview

Go to DMC!! By all appearances, Soichi Negishi is a sweet, well-mannered boy who likes Swedish pop music, trendy boutiques, and all things fashionable. But at the same time he's also Krauser II, front man for Detroit Metal City, an indie death metal band whose popularity increases by the day. Once the DMC makeup goes on and Soichi takes the stage, his natural talent as a death metal god can't help but flourish. Is this the band he's truly destined to be in? How did this happen? When and where did I go wrong? This is not the kind of band I wanted to be in!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421527421
• ISBN13: 9781421527420
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Viz Media
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Guilty pleasures without the guilt

This manga makes me feel like I am reading a lighthearted, happy, manga about somebody who has read one to many 'sensitivity' books one moment and then turns into a heartless, raging metal fest on the same page. A wonderful book for anybody who talks about Hellsing, Sin City, Preacher, Tank Girl, Scud... etc in public and goes home and watches some Nana while having a nice cup of tea...

Hilarious!!

Trust the Japanese to do a comedy metal series better than anyone else. This is funny stuff. Conflicts arise between the EXTREME personality swings between the main character's two roles: demonic Krauser and the sweet faced Nigishi. Would would imagine that the meek kid is indeed the god of evil in metal music? This comic speaks to the duality in us all. Jekyll and Hyde, and Superman - Clark Kent have NOTHING on this guy. Full of profanity that wouldn't make it in any regular comic book - this is really for adults...

this is an amazing series!

There's no easy way to describe this manga series. The closest thing it can compare to is the Adult Swim animated series "Metalocalypse". Yes it's raunchy in its humor and language and is defenitely not for the kiddies. That "M for Mature/Explicit Content" rating on the back of the book is there for a reason. The manga earns it well. XD The art is not your typical cutesy shojo style, and that's what makes Kiminori Wakasugi's Detroit Metal City work. I can't wait to read further volumes to see what else happens. Also, the first volume includes a fun extra. At the end of the book there's a page of Detroit Metal City-themed temporary tattoos.