New Manga Purchases

During the Golden Week break, was able to add to my manga collection as written in my previous post.

I bought Yotsubato Volume 7 and Volume 8, and also Bamboo Blade Volume 6. In between studying Japanese, these should last me a few days :-)

I've also decided to get back into a previous favorite that I was never able to finish: Sho Fumimura and Ryuuichi Ikegami's Sanctuary (サンクチュアリ). Last year, Big Comic's Special started to release a "Works" collection, that bundles the tankobon into bigger books.
If you're not familiar with the story, it's about politics and yakuza... check out the synopsis on wikipedia:

Sanctuary is a political thriller and crime story that featured two childhood friends, Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami, who are ruthlessly struggling to set a new paradigm of living in Japan. However the two friends took radically different paths: Akira chose the dark path and joined a Yakuza gang, while Chiaki strived to become the youngest member of the Japanese Diet. Being survivors of the Cambodian killing fields, the two characters developed an unmatched aggression and survival instincts, helping them to achieve their common ultimate goal: making Japan their own sanctuary.

I actually started reading the manga in English when published by Viz, then I purchased a bunch of the manga many years ago, but found the Japanese was too difficult at the time. Unfortunately, they're on a bookshelf back home, so I'll have to buy them again.

If you're interested in reading Sanctuary, you can order the Works compilation at beNippon.