Your Favorite Video Games Will Always Be Influenced By Manga

In the heart of Brooklyn, there is now a devastatingly gorgeous manga panel from Jiro Taniguchi's Ice Age: Chronicle of the Earth hung on a gallery wall. I can't tell you what it says--I fear my scant familiarity with Japanese doesn't extend to literacy in kanji--but I can tell you what it portrays: a cityscape consumed by nature. A lush tangle of vines and trees reclaiming the Earth from its disastrous, mettlesome inheritors. While I doubt this panel and manga are the first time this kind of image has cropped up…