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MegaTokyo is an epic about imagination, extended every few days by a new full-page manga strip.  Gamer, techie, feminist, romantic, fantasy, heroic, and multi-generational themes are deftly blended to illuminate the surprising unity of human experience.  Look at some of the highlights to get a taste of the mature style (the first few dozen strips are weaker than the thousand-plus that follow, but before the end of the beginning chapter  the art has matured and the story is well launched).  The rich plot (reminiscent of Dickens, another serial novelist), has well-crafted climaxes revealing and weaving together an impressive range of characters.  The strips are collected in paperback volumes for those who wish to acquire merit (and some excellent gifts) by supporting the author.

THE MOST RECENT MEGATOKYO STRIP:  FMP: cold carry
Progress report [artist twitter] - Comic 1138 posted (1 day ago)

Schedule -- A MegaTokyo strip has been produced for most Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays since August 2000, giving a total of 1,138 strips (including 849 in the main story) in 412 weeks thus far.

Efficient-viewing features on the left side of this guide frame (To escape the guide frame, use this direct MegaTokyo link) The Top-Middle-Bottom-Next links and buttons are spaced so that clicks without moving the cursor will show you all of a strip, then proceed to the top of the next strip (most chapter 0 strips are shorter and need only two positions). A button toggles between the default "All strips" mode and a "Story only" mode that limits what Next (or Back) shows to only the Story strips.  This enables people who wish to catch up on the story sequence to do so without distraction from strips in the non-story categories described below.

KEY TO STRIP CATEGORIES:

Story --  About 3/4 of the strips (roughly 80 per chapter) directly tell the story, which has many cross-currents but also a strong central narrative.  New readers may wish to use the chapter links at top left (or here: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) to read the story in multiple sittings or look at the titles and types.  Each chapter from 1 on corresponds to one (very full) day in story time.

"Dead Piro Day" Strip Categories
These are scheduled days when the artist (the Piro character's alter ego)
doesn't post a story strip, for reasons ranging from a cold to a vacation.

Art --  113 strips are artistic studies that do not relate directly to the flow of the main story.  Some are stand-alone drawings of the characters, but others comprise the Circuity, unMod, and Full MegaTokyo Panic   short stories that use MegaTokyo characters in different contexts.

Meta --  66 strips describe the context or artistic process for the strips, provide engaging critiques by Seraphim (the alter ego of the artist's spouse), or describe some aspect of the artist's life (typically as an explanation for a missed story strip).  But strips about the on-line role-playing personas of the story characters are in the Story category (a few digressions are in Other) rather than here, because Pirogoeth et al are archetypes at the heart of the story, not peripheral meta-characters.

Other -- 110 strips cover the artist's absence on an adventure of some sort with either guest strips, Stick Guy Dom joke strips drawn by the artist's business partner, or other digressions.  These can be entertaining but are not related to the story.