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NOTE: Bat-Manga! is a fantastic book by our friend Chip Kidd (co-editor and cover designer of Massive and The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame) collecting the rare Batman manga drawn by Jiro Kuawata in the 1960s. Bat-Manga! contains no (overtly) gay content.
Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan
Edited by Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear, and Saul Ferris
Manga by Jiro Kuawata (桑田二郎)
In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys,
Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own
Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world’s most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.
This is The Dynamic Duo as you’ve never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won’t stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for our book.
The deluxe, expanded, and limited hardcover edition has a distinctly different cover, full-color printed endpapers, and an amazing extra adventure written by Jiro Kuwata (not included in the paperback), about a band of rogue alien robot art thieves at large in Gotham City. Guess who gets called in to save the day....
More than just a dazzling novelty,
Bat-Manga! is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics.
Hardcover signed by Chip Kidd and Jiro Kuwata
Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.2" x 11.2"
Weight: 4.1 pounds
Page Count: 384 pages
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
One of gay manga pioneer Gengoroh Tagame’s first graphic novels, The Silver Flower (銀の華) is a three-volume 824 page story originally serialized from 1994-1999 in Badi magazine. The original title is Shirogane no hana: danjoro kugaino soushi, which translates to: "The Silver Flower: Diary Of a Life of a Male and Female Prostitute," and accordingly depicts a highly ritualized world of prostitution during Meiji Era Japan. The centerpiece of the story is one Ginjiro, trapped in a life of sexual exhibition compounded by the decorum of ornamental traditions (think geishas), and male-female role subjugation.
This exquisite re-issue by Pot Publishing (2012) comes in deluxe slip covers and features original full-color cover art. Our copies each come signed by Gengoroh Tagame, the master himself.
Volume 1 Table of Contents:
Hanagumo, Haze of BlossomsTsubomibiraki, BloomDeku, PuppetMakuragatari, Pillow Words
Volume 2 Table of Contents:
Kiteki, SirenZangiku, Dying CrysanthemumBotan, PeonyHananoen, Blooming TreeHananotuyu, Flower Mist
Volume 3 Table of Contents:
Rangiku, Revolting CrysanthemumJigoku, HellGuren, Red LotusGinka, Silver Flower
Page Count: 873 pages (291 pages per volume)
Dimensons: 5.8" x 8.4"
Language: Japanese
Release Date: September 12th, 2012
Publisher: Pot Publishing
See more Shirogane no Hana on Gay Manga!
Delivery Bears (デリバリーベアーズ熊野急便株式会社)
by Kazuhide Ichikawa (市川和秀) and Jun Ohkawa (大河準)
The Delivery Bears are a kemono courier service that works hard and plays hard. These loveable ursine characters first appeared in Ichikawa's Animal Synchronicity series.
Page Count: 16 pages
Dimensions: 7.17" x 10.12"
Language: Japanese
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Publisher: Ichikawado
Adult Content 18+
Imported directly from the author.
Daddies Garden (ダディーズガーデン), 2013
Doujinshi by Kazuhide Ichikawa (市川和秀) and Satoru Sugajima (菅嶋さとる)
Two fun, sexy tales about older men written by two mangaka "daddies"! Satoru Sugajima weaves a tale of inter-office desire that begins with the boss bound in ropes. Two old friends reunite amidst the snow in Kaz Ichikawa's contribution, and the reminiscences quickly give way to the deepest of intimacies.
Page Count: 20 pages
Dimensions: 7.17" x 10.12"
Language: Japanese
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Publisher: Ichikawado
Imported directly from the author. 10 copies available.
Genbaman the Hero (現場監督な正義のミカタ)
by Kazuhide Ichikawa (市川和秀)
Burly construction foreman Saki Dainichi (大日崎) lives a double life as "Genbaman," a sexy superhero in a zentai suit.
Page Count: 28 pages
Dimensions: 7.17" x 10.12"
Language: Japanese
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Publisher: Ichikawado
Adult Content 18+
Imported directly from the author.
Design detail from "Do You Remember the South Island POW Camp" featured on a 100% cotton white tank.
Men's Sizing S-XXXL
MASSIVE for Opening Ceremony is a capsule collection made in collaboration with the innovative boutique Opening Ceremony. The collection’s unisex muscle tees, shirts, shorts and towels all feature the iconic artwork of Jiraiya. #OCxMASSIVE 
NOTE: Batman: Death by Design is another great Batman book by out friend and collaborator Chip Kidd (co-editor and designer of Massive and The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame). Batman: Death by Design contains no (overtly) gay content. Batman: Death by Design
by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor
In this original graphic novel from superstar writer/designer Chip Kidd and artist Dave Taylor, Gotham City is undergoing one of the most expansive construction booms in its history. The most prestigious architects from across the globe have buildings in various phases of completion all over town. As chairman of the Gotham Landmarks Commission, Bruce Wayne has been a key part of this boom, which signals a golden age of architectural ingenuity for the city. And then, the explosions begin.All manner of design-related malfunctions – faulty crane calculations, sturdy materials suddenly collapsing, software glitches, walkways giving way and more – cause casualties across the city. This bizarre string of seemingly random catastrophes threatens to bring down the whole construction industry. Fingers are pointed as Batman must somehow solve the problem and find whoever is behind it all.
Hardcover
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Page Count: 112 pages
Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.5 x 11.2 inches
Language: English
NOTE: Bat-Manga! is a fantastic book by our friend Chip Kidd (co-editor and cover designer of Massive and The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame) collecting the rare Batman manga drawn by Jiro Kuawata in the 1960s. Bat-Manga! contains no (overtly) gay content. 
Stephen Stills (スティーブン・スティルズ), 2014
Doujinshi by Noda Gaku (NODAガク)
It's finally here! Noda Gaku's outstanding Scott Pilgrim fan fiction fleshes out the love story of Sex Bob-omb guitarist Stephen Stills and his boyfriend, Joseph. Full of manic sex, hilarious gags, and (in true Bryan Lee O'Malley fashion) video game iconography, Stephen Stills is a fun-filled X-rated romp through the fantastical world of Scott Pilgrim's Toronto, Canada.
Page Count: 26 pages
Dimensions: 8.3" x 5.8"
Language: Japanese
Publisher: Noda Gaku
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Adult Content 18+
The Adventures of Kamejiro (太田亀治朗物語), 2013
Doujinshi by Kazuhide Ichikawa (市川和秀)
When 52-year-old security guard Kamejiro's supervisor recognizes him from a gay porn DVD, Kamejiro has no idea the adventures he's in for. Okay, maybe he has some idea.
Page Count: 24 pages
Dimensions: 7.17" x 10.12"
Language: Japanese
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Publisher: Ichikawado
Imported directly from the author. 40 copies available.
XXL signed archival-quality print by Jiraiya (児雷也). Artwork from Jiraiya's tenure as the cover artist for G-men magazine. Featured on the cover of G-men issue #103 (2004). Jiraiya notes that his half-dressed Kendo practitioner is in serious violation of Kendo uniform regulations.
24x36" Giclée print on Sunset Cotton Etching 285g paper. Produced for Jiraiya's "Larger than Life" March 2015 U.S. Tour. Signed and numbered edition of 20. Ships in a sturdy poster tube.
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XXL signed archival-quality print by Jiraiya (児雷也) of Asakichi and Seiji, a gachimuchi pair of lovers Jiraiya has dubbed "The Best Couple." The couple originally appeared on a sweatshirt by MASSIVE in 2013.
24x36" Giclée print on Sunset Cotton Etching 285g paper. Produced for Jiraiya's "Larger than Life" March 2015 U.S. Tour. Signed and numbered edition of 20. Ships in a sturdy poster tube.
Shipping rate includes insurance.
Endless Game tells the tale of Akira, a college student with a "voracious appetite for sex" who gets more than he bargained for on a trip to the bathhouse. The second English-language book of Gengoroh Tagame's work presents his most recent mid-length story, and perhaps one of his most Dionysian. From Tagame's Afterword:
Fisherman's Lodge
by Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎)
This latest collection of stories by GENGOROH TAGAME, Japanese master of gay manga, features stories about solitary men who will discover the limits of their sexuality. In the book’s title feature, Fisherman’s Lodge, an anonymous old watchman of a remote sea lodge is forced to entertain a male mistress. For the lowly gangster at the center of Confessions, a suicide mission to entrap a cop becomes a night of sexual bliss. In End Line, a football champion must endure an arousing disciplinary hazing. All of these outcasts will discover new frontiers of their own sexual desire by finding each other.
Translation by MASSIVE's Anne Ishii.
Page Count: 160 pages
Dimensions: 9.4" x 6.7" x 0.7"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Publisher: Bruno Gmünder Verlag
More and More of You and Other Stores
by Takeshi Matsu (松武)The first English-language collection of Takeshi Matsu's work is now available from Bruno Gmünder Verlag! Translation by MASSIVE's Anne Ishii.
At long last, Japan’s favorite gay romance artist is available in English! TAKESHI MATSU has been widely published in gay Japanese magazines and books, but it’s in his prolific self-published work that we can delight in the greatest range of styles: from the sweet illicit romances of high school seniors in More and More of You to the comical parody of Go West and four-frame gag comics in Tales from the Kitchen. Find out what makes Takeshi Matsu one of Japan’s favorite sweethearts and irresistible to the rest of the world.
"In Takeshi Matsu’s manga, we see the kind of men we know (or at least wish we did) having fun, playful sex. This lovemaking has emotional depth without baggage. The carefree erotic fantasies of these charming characters aren’t just thoroughly entertaining—they belong in the mainstream gay erotic canon."— Gengoroh Tagame
Page Count: 160 pages
Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.7"
Language: English
Release Date: November 2014
Publisher: Bruno Gmünder Verlag
Gunji is the latest English-language publication of Gengoroh Tagame's manga, translated by Anne Ishii for Bruno Gmünder. It includes the brilliant four-part title story, about a sushi chef entangled in a deeply psychological BDSM relationship, as well as Tagame's excellent one-shot manga, Ballad of Oeyama.Gunji was originally published in Kinniku-Otoko magazine, a short-lived publication Tagame credits with helping bring together the worlds of BL and gay manga. As a result, the story is a hybrid of BL sensibilities and Tagame's trademark brutality. Ballad of Oeyama is a 10th century period piece that about a military commander's encounter with a foreigner. Tagame cites Japanese legend and Osamu Tezuka's General Onimaru as a inspirations for the work. The version included in this book is a revision of the 2004 original, with fuller body hair amongst the enhancements Tagame has provided. "Like the Director's Cut or DVD extras you'd see in restored versions of films," he writes in the book's afterword, "it'd be safe to call this the 2013 Ballad of Oeyama Redux."
Page Count: 160 pages
Dimensions: 7" x 9.75"
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Publisher: Bruno Gmünder
MASSIVE proudly presents Caveman Guu, the first authorized English-language manga translation from the brilliant Japanese gay erotic artist Jiraiya.
Guu is a spiky-haired, powerfully built nomad cruising fir cavemen in prehistoric Japan with Cavebear Kuu, his trusty ursine wingman. When Guu discovers that human reproduction can only occur through sex with females, he sets off on a path to make a baby-- but his libido has other plans.
Hilarious, sexy and clever, Jiraiya provides a fresh new perspective on historical fiction in erotica. The mangaka's mastery is on full display here.
Created specifically for an international audience, this is the first publication of Caveman Guu in any language. Caveman Guu is also included in our anthology, 
Four mammoth-sized stickers of Jiraiya's MASSIVE logo rendered in two dawn and dusk pastel color schemes. Stick them everywhere!
Jiraiya's muscleman logo is a jumbo-sized 6.1" wide x 6.4" high. The "MASSIVE" stickers are 6.76" x 1.6".
XXL signed archival-quality print of Jiraiya (児雷也)'s beloved prehistoric gay manga character, Caveman Guu.
24x36" Giclée print on Sunset Cotton Etching 285g paper. Produced for Jiraiya's "Larger than Life" March 2015 U.S. Tour. Signed and numbered edition of 20. Ships in a sturdy poster tube.
Shipping rate includes insurance.
XXL signed archival-quality print by Jiraiya (児雷也). Cover art from iconic Japanse gay magazine G-men's 200th issue.
24x36" Giclée print on Sunset Cotton Etching 285g paper. Produced for Jiraiya's "Larger than Life" March 2015 U.S. Tour. Signed and numbered edition of 20. Ships in a sturdy poster tube.
Shipping rate includes insurance.