Recommend me some gekiga mangas a la Tatsumi. For those who

>>9257884
Sanpei Shirato is your man if you enjoy raw Sengoku violence and Edo prostitutes getting raped and tortured.

>>9257906
I'm more interested in postwar Japan.

>>9257975
Ashita no Joe. You can write a doctorate thesis about Post War Japan after finishing that one.

>>9258011
I would check it.

I've read A Drifting Life, and it's definitely okay. The story is not that compelling, but the one thing I remember being struck by was just the sheer number of panels that included other comics of varying styles within them. I think his shorter collections are a bit more meaningful, but A Drifting Life is stunning in its own way.