Kylooe

Kylooe #1-3

by Little Thunder, リトルサンダー, 野村 麻里 (Translator)

ひと時の夢がつなぐ3つの物語。壮大で美しい三部作をついに邦訳。

行きづまりかけた人生が一瞬だけ見せる夢。青春の光と影を描く壮大な三部作。
世界で絶賛を浴びる香港のアーティスト、リトルサンダーによる
渾身の作品を一冊にまとめた388ページの特厚オールカラーコミック！


描かれるのは、人生に行き詰まりそうになった人々と
「Kylooe（夢）」という不思議な生き物が織りなす3つの物語。


第1章「憂鬱なトンボ・虹との別れ」
内気な女子高生ラムロクはある日、CDショップで、
自分の暗い生活を変えてくれるような音楽と運命の出会いを果たす。
バンドの名は「Downhearted Dragonfly」。
そのアルバムを聴いてから目を覚ますと、
自室にはアルバムのジャケットに描かれた生き物がいた。
夢の世界で本当の自由を知り変わろうとしたラムロクが目にしたのは――。


第2章「緑のトンネル」
わがままでおてんばな彼女と同棲する若者ラムは、
彼女にせがまれ学生時代の恋人のことを話し出す。
口をついて出るでたらめな恋愛話のなかで思い出すのは、
本当に好きだった女の子、リンフェイのことだった。
ある日つけたテレビから流れたアニメ「カイロー」は
ラムをあの日々へと押し戻すことになる。
無口で繊細な芸術家だったリンフェイとの日々のきらめき、
そしてある後悔がラムの心のなかに深く刻まれていた――。


第3章「微笑みよ、さようなら」
感情を表に出すことを禁じられた世界で人々は感情を抑えこんで暮らしていた。
感情を抑えるのが苦手な少年マイルは、いつも自分を厳しく叱っていた父の死に直面し、
思わず泣き叫んでしまう。
だが、収監され絶望するマイルが刑務所で知り合った男、ナッシュはいつも自由に笑っていた。
感情をコントロールしようとする世界のなかで、
マイルの夢に出てきた怪物カイローはあるヒントを与えるが――。


2010～2012年にフランスで3冊のシリーズとして出版された作品『Kylooe』。
リトルサンダー渾身の筆による美麗な線と彩色をあますところなく収録！

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comics, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Short Stories

388 pages, Paperback

Published February 22, 2024

About the author

門小雷，漫畫家，生於香港。

中五畢業後，成為全職漫畫家。2006年出版個人畫集《彩虹》，漫畫集《666》、《Boom！邊走邊愛》及《裡裡外外》。及後在《Milk Magazine》連載專欄《宇宙不安學會》，同期編繪《KYLOOE》三部曲，印有法文版、中文版及意大利文版本，憑《KYLOOE 1 - Downhearted Dragonfly》榮獲第四屆國際漫畫賞銅獎。

2012年首次舉辦個人展《告白》，自資出版繪本《夜記》，除了畫畫之外，門小雷亦喜愛跳舞。

門小雷說過：「I draw love letters, not comics.」繪畫只是一種工具，她畫的是愛、恨、寂寞與一切情感。

Reviews

[Larakaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderfully weird and dreamingly melancholy

[crowsden · Rating 4 out of 5]

This dark horse omnibus collects all three short stories under the themes of imagination and daydreams.

The first two stories were really great. Maybe not the most original stuff out there, but beautifully drawn and told stories about heartbreak, jealousy, family, and the way imagination can make or break them. The third story one is so out of left feild comparatively - it's kind of jarring. Probably my least favorite of the three but not bad overall.

[Gabriel A · Rating 2 out of 5]

I mean
I dont know.
the art is lovely though

[Steph · Rating 3 out of 5]

The whole idea is very interesting, and the artwork itself is absolutely wonderful - all dreamy and wild. But after following one character for a short while, we suddenly jumped to another characters, and then another. There was no follow-up or closure to those stories at all, and I’m one who always wants to know what happened next. So that’s not my favorite part.
My library only had this first collection in the series, so I won’t be able to continue reading it unless I find it somewhere online, for free. Bummer!

3.5 stars.

[Dan P · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is so annoying! Such a skilled artist drawing page after page of super dull material. There's some ok ideas at the core of the stories in this collection, but zero sense of what to do with them. The art IS stunning. But I would much rather look at a sketchbook or gallery show from Little Thunder than muddle through another comic

[Patricia Q · Rating 4 out of 5]

The artwork is amazing.

[libraire.incandescente · Rating 3 out of 5]

J'ai rien compris mais j'ai aimé.

Les dessins sont magnifiques et les couleurs aussi. Trois nouvelles en un livre qui laissent sur sa faim.

[Maddisen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kylooe has a beautiful art style, and I like how it tells 3 stories in the progression of, I'd say, 100 years. It's cool.

Finished 7:38am

[lammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

i loved it for what it is. surreal, beautiful, and very chiikawa-esque, basically what kylooe is. the third story made me so emotional especially coming from a breakup

[. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not finish p.30

[Jenn Malzone · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a lot of great parts, but I didn’t find a through line or feel that any of the stories had resolved.

[Doug Mason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, just not my thing.

[Ellie · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[nita · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are many stories I do not understand. I don't think I am meant to understand everything, but that doesn't mean it's not understandable to someone else. This was an example of that for me. The art was beautiful. Stunning. Breathtaking. The colors! Wow - the colors! There were many really good moments in the first two stories. The screaming getting what you desired dialogue is really something. However, nothing beyond small moments meant or tugged at me for the first two stories.

The third one, though. I loved the third one!

Due to the last story and art, my rating of 3/5 became a 4/5.

[Tim Rooney · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a surreal and moving collection of stories by Hong Kong artist Little Thunder that were released independently over a number of years ago but collected here in English for the first time. These loosely connected tales read like a dream. They're full of abstract and surreal imagery, touching on feelings of loneliness, isolation, freedom and emotion, and growing up. Your mind will grapple for a way to reach concrete conclusions from these hazy fantasies but it is best to simply allow them to flow through you and accept that maybe you're not meant to "get it" all at once. I suspect I will be thinking about these stories for a while.