Kamen Rider Kuuga Vol. 2

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Kamen Rider: Kuuga is back for an epic second volume, for the first time in English, with more action, more monsters, and more super heroics! This classic manga is perfect for fans of superheroes, the Power Rangers, and the tokusatsu genre. 'I'll fight to protect everyone's smile!' After the awakening of a mysterious figure on the ruins of Kurogatake, Nagano, several 'Unidentified Lifeforms' appeared in Tokyo and started a wave of mass murders. Kaoru Ichijo, an investigator for the police department, meets young idealist Yusuke Godai and his friend, Sakurano Sawatari, who is kidnapped by one of these strange creatures. To save her, Godai accepts the power given to him by an enigmatic spirit wrapped on bandages. By accepting its power, he transforms and becomes... Kamen Rider! Kamen Rider Kuuga is an ongoing manga series that adapts the television series of the same name and expands on Kamen Rider lore. It's written by Toshiki Inoue and drawn by Hitotsu Yokoshima, and based on the original concept and story by tokusatsu legend Shotaro Ishinomori. It started its serialization in the magazine Monthly Hero's in 2015.

Shotaro Ishinomori was a Japanese manga artist who was an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (which would go on to become part of the Super Sentai series), and Kamen Rider. He won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award twice, in 1968 for Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae and in 1988 for Hotel and Manga Nihon Keizai Nyumon. He passed away in 1998. Toshiki Inoue is a Japanese screenwriter known for his work on anime and tokusatsu. He has written for many entries in the Kamen Rider series, including the Kamen Rider Kuuga manga adaptation. Hitotsu Yokoshima is a Japanese manga artist, known mostly for his adaptation of H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds with manga writer Daisuke Ihara and the manga adaptation of Kamen Rider Kuuga with Toshiki Inoue.