Sneeze: Naoki Urasawa Story Collection
Japanese manga collection
Sneeze: Naoki Urasawa Story Collection (Japanese: くしゃみ 浦沢直樹短編集, Hepburn: Kushami Urasawa Naoki Tanpenshū) is a Japanese anthology of manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It collects eight varied short stories that are loosely thematically linked, and which were originally published in various magazines and publications between 1995 and 2018. The single volume was released by Shogakukan in April 2019. Viz Media licensed it for English-language release in North America and published it in October 2020.
Overview
"DAMIYAN!"
Published in 2016's 49th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits. Yakuza Komoto is tasked by his superior to assassinate the family's new boss, believing him to be the one responsible for their previous boss's death. To do so, Komoto hires two odd young men to do it using one of the men's, Damiyan, supernatural abilities.
Urasawa said he could not remember why he chose Damiyan! as the title, but, because the title character has "666" on his shirt, speculated the idea must have come from the horror movie that has a character with a similar name. He vaguely remembers deciding to put the accent on "mi", Kansai dialect-style, instead of using the intonation heard in that film.
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