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Fune ni Sumu #1
La mia vita in barca
La mia vita in barca è un viaggio nei luoghi e nel cuore di un maestro della letteratura disegnata, una riflessione raffinata e sincera sul senso della vita.
Questo volume, una prima edizione mondiale fuori dal Giappone, è una perla nascosta del manga d'autore.
Tadao è alla disperata ricerca dell’ispirazione per il suo prossimo romanzo. Pesce fuor d’acqua tra le mura del suo Joker jeans shop, appena può abbandona tutto per dedicarsi al suo vero amore: la pesca. Trascorre ore sulla sponda del fiume ma con scarsi risultati. Sa bene che se avesse una bella barca potrebbe andare al largo, dove la pesca è più fruttuosa. Per lui andrebbe bene anche una vecchia bagnarola come quella che vede ormeggiata sempre nello stesso punto ormai da mesi. Sarà proprio a bordo di quella vecchia barca che salperà per un lungo viaggio alla ricerca di se stesso e di un Giappone ormai lontano. Con l’aiuto di familiari e amici, finalmente scoprirà cosa si prova a vivere una vita in barca. Un affascinante sguardo sulla vita di tutti i giorni di Tsuge Tadao, stella di culto del panorama artistico alternativo giapponese. Un diario appassionato e sincero, un viaggio appassionante nel Giappone di un tempo attraverso emozioni intense e ricordi indelebili narrato con uno stile unico, elegante e raffinato.
Questo volume, una prima edizione mondiale fuori dal Giappone, è una perla nascosta del manga d'autore.
Tadao è alla disperata ricerca dell’ispirazione per il suo prossimo romanzo. Pesce fuor d’acqua tra le mura del suo Joker jeans shop, appena può abbandona tutto per dedicarsi al suo vero amore: la pesca. Trascorre ore sulla sponda del fiume ma con scarsi risultati. Sa bene che se avesse una bella barca potrebbe andare al largo, dove la pesca è più fruttuosa. Per lui andrebbe bene anche una vecchia bagnarola come quella che vede ormeggiata sempre nello stesso punto ormai da mesi. Sarà proprio a bordo di quella vecchia barca che salperà per un lungo viaggio alla ricerca di se stesso e di un Giappone ormai lontano. Con l’aiuto di familiari e amici, finalmente scoprirà cosa si prova a vivere una vita in barca. Un affascinante sguardo sulla vita di tutti i giorni di Tsuge Tadao, stella di culto del panorama artistico alternativo giapponese. Un diario appassionato e sincero, un viaggio appassionante nel Giappone di un tempo attraverso emozioni intense e ricordi indelebili narrato con uno stile unico, elegante e raffinato.
324 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Tadao Tsuge
12 books29 followersTadao Tsuge (born in 1941) has been drawing comics since the late 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the central contributors to the underground comics magazine Garo, and the magazines Yako and Gento. In addition to cartooning, Tsuge is an avid fisherman and has written essays on the subject. He has held full-time blue-collar jobs for most of his artistic career, most significantly on the cleaning staff at one of Tokyo’s for-profit blood banks, which figures prominently in a number of his works. In 1995, cult-film director Teru Ishii made a movie based on Tsuge’s comics. Tsuge lives in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo.
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October 29, 2022
I designed the cover for the English-language edition of this book!
When the hapless, more-than-slightly depressed writer (and author stand-in) Tsuda Tenta spies a beat-up wooden boat on the banks of the Tonegawa River near Tokyo, he decides that "Boat Life" is calling to him and he sets about spending more and more of his days poling up and down the river, fishing its waters for crucian carp and meeting the quirky denizens that populate its banks. But this is no pastoral paradise, the banks of the Tonegawa are strewn with dumped industrial waste and homeless artists and oddballs live lives on the edges of the increasingly urban and consumerist world that surrounds them. Meanwhile, back at the clothing store he ostensibly runs with his wife and adult children, the would-be novelist faces his failures and frustrations as an author, father, and husband.
Author Tsuge Tadao allows his imagination to wander, and sends his protagonist through a series of episodic adventures where reality and dream blur. Tsuge depicts natural life and the detritus of human civilization with equal aplomb, and his stories are hyper-mundane, even occasionally boring, but the overall effect of the tales is fascinating, and has me eager to read the next volume. The book is rounded out with an introduction by translator Ryan Holmberg that gives helpful context on both Tsuge's on-again, off-again career as a mangka and the special place of fishing culture in postwar Japan, along with a pair of droll essays by the author himself.
"Boat Life" is a melancholic, philosophical, down-to-earth, jaded, and ultimately beautiful look at one man's slow-motion midlife crisis, and the surprising ways that simply being present in the world can change one's outlook. A great read for anyone who has ever wanted to get away from it all, but wasn't sure they would like what they found when they got there.
When the hapless, more-than-slightly depressed writer (and author stand-in) Tsuda Tenta spies a beat-up wooden boat on the banks of the Tonegawa River near Tokyo, he decides that "Boat Life" is calling to him and he sets about spending more and more of his days poling up and down the river, fishing its waters for crucian carp and meeting the quirky denizens that populate its banks. But this is no pastoral paradise, the banks of the Tonegawa are strewn with dumped industrial waste and homeless artists and oddballs live lives on the edges of the increasingly urban and consumerist world that surrounds them. Meanwhile, back at the clothing store he ostensibly runs with his wife and adult children, the would-be novelist faces his failures and frustrations as an author, father, and husband.
Author Tsuge Tadao allows his imagination to wander, and sends his protagonist through a series of episodic adventures where reality and dream blur. Tsuge depicts natural life and the detritus of human civilization with equal aplomb, and his stories are hyper-mundane, even occasionally boring, but the overall effect of the tales is fascinating, and has me eager to read the next volume. The book is rounded out with an introduction by translator Ryan Holmberg that gives helpful context on both Tsuge's on-again, off-again career as a mangka and the special place of fishing culture in postwar Japan, along with a pair of droll essays by the author himself.
"Boat Life" is a melancholic, philosophical, down-to-earth, jaded, and ultimately beautiful look at one man's slow-motion midlife crisis, and the surprising ways that simply being present in the world can change one's outlook. A great read for anyone who has ever wanted to get away from it all, but wasn't sure they would like what they found when they got there.
January 6, 2017
Capolavoro. Malinconico. Esistenzialista. Assolutamente da leggere, anche se non si amano i manga. Non lasciatevi fuorviare dal disegno all'apparenza sgraziato, in realtà è davvero essenziale e poetico.
Peccato per alcune sviste dozzinali in fase di traduzione/adattamento.
Peccato per alcune sviste dozzinali in fase di traduzione/adattamento.
March 4, 2023
A slice of life manga with a touch of magical realism...
The story is simple enough, it follows a middle aged man who lives in a small town and decides to buy a boat in order to spend some days each month living in the boat and fishing in the nearby river.
The art reminded me of old fashioned manga from the 60s-70s. While the characters look more cartoony, the environment and the landscape is sketched in more detail, making for some interesting visuals. Since the manga is semi autobiographical, it's clear that the mangaka has spent hours in the river area and his love for it shows in the comic's panels. One could go so far as to say that the landscape isn't just the background for the story but another one of its characters.
The story ranges from melancholic and nostalgic with a touch of humor to downright depressing at some points. I'd like to see the protagonist making up with his family and making peace with his life choices as the story progresses.
My only complaint is that, as I don't care for fishing at all, I found the parts depicting fishing practices in detail a little boring and mostly skipped through them.
The story is simple enough, it follows a middle aged man who lives in a small town and decides to buy a boat in order to spend some days each month living in the boat and fishing in the nearby river.
The art reminded me of old fashioned manga from the 60s-70s. While the characters look more cartoony, the environment and the landscape is sketched in more detail, making for some interesting visuals. Since the manga is semi autobiographical, it's clear that the mangaka has spent hours in the river area and his love for it shows in the comic's panels. One could go so far as to say that the landscape isn't just the background for the story but another one of its characters.
The story ranges from melancholic and nostalgic with a touch of humor to downright depressing at some points. I'd like to see the protagonist making up with his family and making peace with his life choices as the story progresses.
My only complaint is that, as I don't care for fishing at all, I found the parts depicting fishing practices in detail a little boring and mostly skipped through them.
March 13, 2017
La mole del volume giustifica l'obiettivo finale ed ogni pagina risulta essenziale in tutta la sua poetica.
Un percorso alla ricerca dell'Io, attraverso il lento scorrere del tempo e delle stagioni, colmato da una moltitudine di personaggi secondari con il ruolo di mediatori tra inconscio e realtà.
Sin dalle prime pagine risulta impossibile non immergersi in contesti e situazioni, al punto di lavorare persino sulle proprie aspettative.
Lascia con un sospiro ma resta indelebile.
Un percorso alla ricerca dell'Io, attraverso il lento scorrere del tempo e delle stagioni, colmato da una moltitudine di personaggi secondari con il ruolo di mediatori tra inconscio e realtà.
Sin dalle prime pagine risulta impossibile non immergersi in contesti e situazioni, al punto di lavorare persino sulle proprie aspettative.
Lascia con un sospiro ma resta indelebile.
August 6, 2023
Tsuda Kenta is a fiftysomething novelist who splits his time between thwarted attempts to write and equally ineffectual assistance with his family's clothes shop. One day, on a whim, he buys a small boat and rigs it out with a canvas cabin, intending to use it as a writer's retreat. Instead, he's drawn into the extended quasi-community who use the river as a way to break out of their prescribed lives in post-boom Japan. Drifters, lecherous monks, off-grid wanderers, cagey amateur artists and stray cats cross Kenta's path. He's as effective at river living as he is at anything else - he catches few fish and spends a lot of time getting ill - but he's at least occasionally content.
This is the first half of Tsuge's Boat Life, in a beautifully presented English translation by Ryan Holmberg, who is doing a heroic job at the moment getting alternative manga out into the English-speaking world. Holmberg also provides some backmatter: an essay, alongside two of Tsuge's own prose pieces, on the 80s and 90s "fishing boom" in Japan. This sudden uptick of interest in angling created an audience for not one but two manga anthology series entirely devoted to fishing, and it was in the shorter lived of these that Boat Life originally ran.
Fishing is as much a part of the Boat Life series as Kenta's quasi-bohemian lifestyle - in one episode, Kenta's editor at 'Fisher Bum' magazine commissions an urban fishing feature and he and two pals head off to Tokyo to catch some carp. (They fail to do so) Like most of Boat Life, it's drawn from Tsuge's own experiences - as well as his art, he had a fishing journalism side hustle.
While the setting of the urban fishing episode is unusual the tone isn't - nothing much happens, Kenta gets little done, but it's charming, philosophical and gently funny, and captures the rhythms and waning energies of middle-aged friendship beautifully. Tsuge's art seems basic at first when really it does what it needs to - get across the earnest, likeable but slightly feckless nature of Kenta's life and relationships. And his minimal approach is perfect for the landscapes of the series - the seas of reeds and wide river plains, flat and lonesome, welcoming only to the already partly-lost.
Tsuda Kenta has something in common with that other boat-addled patriarch, Tove Jansson's Moominpappa, who drags his family off to islands and yearns to follow the Hattifatteners on their wicked, eternal voyagings. Both have extraordinarily tolerant partners, but the resemblance only goes so far - Moominpappa is a bourgeois Dad having a mid-life crisis; Kenta is a working class man who comes to recognise in the precarious world of the river an existence on the margins which he nudged up against and opted out of in his own youth. It's a world Tsuge apparently explored - in its vivid and violent aspects - in his other manga: in Boat Life we see its older, more rural parallel, as Kenta meets people who have settled into their choices and embraced itinerant lives in a way he couldn't. Even if he knows enough to visit.
Tsuge's protagonist is certainly having a quiet kind of crisis, but by not focusing wholly on it and making the comic as much about the people he meets and the family who tolerate his whims, Tsuge makes Boat Life a richer and more sympathetic comic. The comic doesn't flinch from the fact that its protagonist is a bit selfish and a bit foolish, but that's also where the gentle comedy often comes in. Kenta thinks of himself as an experienced man of the world, but he's still shocked by a pair of lovers wanting to rent his boat as an impromptu love shack, or by the bawdiness of the local monk. It helps Boat Life walk its particular tightrope - a relaxing slice-of-life comic about river which is still clear-eyed about the lifestyle Kenta is flirting with and his ultimate lack of fit for it. One of the best things I've read all year.
This is the first half of Tsuge's Boat Life, in a beautifully presented English translation by Ryan Holmberg, who is doing a heroic job at the moment getting alternative manga out into the English-speaking world. Holmberg also provides some backmatter: an essay, alongside two of Tsuge's own prose pieces, on the 80s and 90s "fishing boom" in Japan. This sudden uptick of interest in angling created an audience for not one but two manga anthology series entirely devoted to fishing, and it was in the shorter lived of these that Boat Life originally ran.
Fishing is as much a part of the Boat Life series as Kenta's quasi-bohemian lifestyle - in one episode, Kenta's editor at 'Fisher Bum' magazine commissions an urban fishing feature and he and two pals head off to Tokyo to catch some carp. (They fail to do so) Like most of Boat Life, it's drawn from Tsuge's own experiences - as well as his art, he had a fishing journalism side hustle.
While the setting of the urban fishing episode is unusual the tone isn't - nothing much happens, Kenta gets little done, but it's charming, philosophical and gently funny, and captures the rhythms and waning energies of middle-aged friendship beautifully. Tsuge's art seems basic at first when really it does what it needs to - get across the earnest, likeable but slightly feckless nature of Kenta's life and relationships. And his minimal approach is perfect for the landscapes of the series - the seas of reeds and wide river plains, flat and lonesome, welcoming only to the already partly-lost.
Tsuda Kenta has something in common with that other boat-addled patriarch, Tove Jansson's Moominpappa, who drags his family off to islands and yearns to follow the Hattifatteners on their wicked, eternal voyagings. Both have extraordinarily tolerant partners, but the resemblance only goes so far - Moominpappa is a bourgeois Dad having a mid-life crisis; Kenta is a working class man who comes to recognise in the precarious world of the river an existence on the margins which he nudged up against and opted out of in his own youth. It's a world Tsuge apparently explored - in its vivid and violent aspects - in his other manga: in Boat Life we see its older, more rural parallel, as Kenta meets people who have settled into their choices and embraced itinerant lives in a way he couldn't. Even if he knows enough to visit.
Tsuge's protagonist is certainly having a quiet kind of crisis, but by not focusing wholly on it and making the comic as much about the people he meets and the family who tolerate his whims, Tsuge makes Boat Life a richer and more sympathetic comic. The comic doesn't flinch from the fact that its protagonist is a bit selfish and a bit foolish, but that's also where the gentle comedy often comes in. Kenta thinks of himself as an experienced man of the world, but he's still shocked by a pair of lovers wanting to rent his boat as an impromptu love shack, or by the bawdiness of the local monk. It helps Boat Life walk its particular tightrope - a relaxing slice-of-life comic about river which is still clear-eyed about the lifestyle Kenta is flirting with and his ultimate lack of fit for it. One of the best things I've read all year.
November 24, 2024
## Key takeaways
- What appears to be a simple and silly story of insignificant tales on fishing excursions set in a small forgotten Japanese town develops into this beautiful journey for a middle aged man grappling with his existence who wishes to return to what he knew growing up though it was war-time and people only knew strife, struggle, and ruin. "This is fine...just fine..."
- Such powerful reflections on aging and feeling out of place like a relic from a time gone by. Also on our ability to cherish the happy moments in the most difficult of times and enjoy the hardship that grew us.
- Tadao Tsuge (author): "When I went fishing, the troubles of work and life dispersed as if they were the lightest bubbles, never bursting in my face and embarrassing me."
- "Most flatland rivers in Japan are polluted, exhausted, and emaciated. The currents wobble between their concrete banks as of the rivers were old men. All the nameless waterways you used to find are bound to disappear, with many fated to be absorbed by golf courses. Sadly, there's probably nothing to be done about it now. Considering the priority given to large-scald industrial development, the construction of golf courses and resorts, and profit above all else in regional government policy, the destiny of our rivers appears truly hopeless."
- Per Ryan Holmberg: fishing and scrubby riverine landscapes were of a piece with his interest in marginal spaces via which to escape pressures, responsibilities, and trivialities of daily life...Fishing figures more as an existential than recreational activity, one sometimes bordering on the pathological and nihilistic...The Tonegawa River was...the landacape of his most happy and his most anguished days."
- Travel is not a "destination-based activity for experiencing predetermined sites and scenery but an act of semi-random wandering and encounters off the beaten track."
## Quotes
> "When men get older, there's somethin' sloppy about them" "once you're my age, no one wants you around"
> "Living too long only burdens your children"
> "To reach out and grab something, you first gotta let something else go. Whether or not we intend it, that's how parts of our lives end up, like garbage tossed into the river and carried away."
> "Living free is just a burden on other people"
> "We've endured our feelings of anger, sadness, and loneliness by flagellating ourselves and driving ourselves into the corner...such masochistic tendencies are common to many people of our generation."
> "Endure! And then endure some more! Hasn't that been the slogan of our lives?" (The author was a war-baby who grew up in the slums of Tokyo)
## Notes
- So cool how important fishing is to Japanese culture to the point there's a series called 'Diary of a Fishing Nut' about a white collar salesman crazy for fishing which has been running for the past 40 years, being adapted into a movie series and live action and animated television shows.
- There were also fishing manga magazines and the writer's brother, Yoshiharu Tsuge, is credited with the establishment of fishing as a central trope within manga
- What appears to be a simple and silly story of insignificant tales on fishing excursions set in a small forgotten Japanese town develops into this beautiful journey for a middle aged man grappling with his existence who wishes to return to what he knew growing up though it was war-time and people only knew strife, struggle, and ruin. "This is fine...just fine..."
- Such powerful reflections on aging and feeling out of place like a relic from a time gone by. Also on our ability to cherish the happy moments in the most difficult of times and enjoy the hardship that grew us.
- Tadao Tsuge (author): "When I went fishing, the troubles of work and life dispersed as if they were the lightest bubbles, never bursting in my face and embarrassing me."
- "Most flatland rivers in Japan are polluted, exhausted, and emaciated. The currents wobble between their concrete banks as of the rivers were old men. All the nameless waterways you used to find are bound to disappear, with many fated to be absorbed by golf courses. Sadly, there's probably nothing to be done about it now. Considering the priority given to large-scald industrial development, the construction of golf courses and resorts, and profit above all else in regional government policy, the destiny of our rivers appears truly hopeless."
- Per Ryan Holmberg: fishing and scrubby riverine landscapes were of a piece with his interest in marginal spaces via which to escape pressures, responsibilities, and trivialities of daily life...Fishing figures more as an existential than recreational activity, one sometimes bordering on the pathological and nihilistic...The Tonegawa River was...the landacape of his most happy and his most anguished days."
- Travel is not a "destination-based activity for experiencing predetermined sites and scenery but an act of semi-random wandering and encounters off the beaten track."
## Quotes
> "When men get older, there's somethin' sloppy about them" "once you're my age, no one wants you around"
> "Living too long only burdens your children"
> "To reach out and grab something, you first gotta let something else go. Whether or not we intend it, that's how parts of our lives end up, like garbage tossed into the river and carried away."
> "Living free is just a burden on other people"
> "We've endured our feelings of anger, sadness, and loneliness by flagellating ourselves and driving ourselves into the corner...such masochistic tendencies are common to many people of our generation."
> "Endure! And then endure some more! Hasn't that been the slogan of our lives?" (The author was a war-baby who grew up in the slums of Tokyo)
## Notes
- So cool how important fishing is to Japanese culture to the point there's a series called 'Diary of a Fishing Nut' about a white collar salesman crazy for fishing which has been running for the past 40 years, being adapted into a movie series and live action and animated television shows.
- There were also fishing manga magazines and the writer's brother, Yoshiharu Tsuge, is credited with the establishment of fishing as a central trope within manga
December 13, 2023
Gdyby porównać dokonania Tadao Tsuge ze zbioru „Boat Life” z jego mangami z lat 60. i 70., to wydadzą się sympatycznymi historiami o pasji wędkarskiej i kryzysie wieku średniego, podanymi łagodnie i z humorem. Tamta ponura twórczość faktycznie mogła przytłoczyć klimatem, ale zbiór komiksów z wędkarstwem w tle wypada szczególnie ciekawie, gdy zna się przynajmniej pobieżnie właśnie te wcześniejsze dokonania artysty. Mając wiedzę o jego trudnym dzieciństwie, które często w zawoalowany sposób przebijało z surowych historii składających się na „Trash Market” i „Slum Wolf”, trudno nie łączyć ich z przedstawionymi w „Boat Life” wspomnieniami na temat przeszłości bohatera.
Ton tych opowiadań jest w większości ciepły. Tsuda Kenta (alter ego autora) odnajduje ukojenie w żegludze okazyjnie kupioną łodzią, spotykając na swojej drodze nieprzeciętne postacie, także radzące sobie z trudną przeszłością. To rzecz o potrzebie samotności, o ucieczce i o ciągłym poszukiwaniu, ale też o tym jak żyje się z kimś, kto z natury jest wiecznym samotnikiem (żona Kenty to prawdziwy anioł, znoszący wszystkie niezrozumiałe posunięcia męża). Nad całością unosi się nieco oniryczna otoczka, głównie za sprawą bohaterów, którzy pojawiają się nagle i znikają równie niespodziewanie. Ciekawym aspektem są nawiązania do słynnego dzieła brata Tadao – Yoshiharu - pod tytułem „Man Without Talent”, na które „Boat Life” był swoistą odpowiedzią.
Sporo tu fachowej wiedzy na temat techniki wędkarstwa, bo seria powstawała w drugiej połowie lat 90. na potrzeby magazynu „Comic Fushy Fishing”, a sam autor w swej wieloletniej pracy często ilustrował specjalistyczne artykuły o podobnej tematyce. I choć tak naprawdę nigdy w rzeczywistości łodzi nie kupił, jest w tych historiach wiarygodny jak mało który komiksowy twórca
(tekst ukazał się na facebookowej stronie "Magazynu Kreski")
Ton tych opowiadań jest w większości ciepły. Tsuda Kenta (alter ego autora) odnajduje ukojenie w żegludze okazyjnie kupioną łodzią, spotykając na swojej drodze nieprzeciętne postacie, także radzące sobie z trudną przeszłością. To rzecz o potrzebie samotności, o ucieczce i o ciągłym poszukiwaniu, ale też o tym jak żyje się z kimś, kto z natury jest wiecznym samotnikiem (żona Kenty to prawdziwy anioł, znoszący wszystkie niezrozumiałe posunięcia męża). Nad całością unosi się nieco oniryczna otoczka, głównie za sprawą bohaterów, którzy pojawiają się nagle i znikają równie niespodziewanie. Ciekawym aspektem są nawiązania do słynnego dzieła brata Tadao – Yoshiharu - pod tytułem „Man Without Talent”, na które „Boat Life” był swoistą odpowiedzią.
Sporo tu fachowej wiedzy na temat techniki wędkarstwa, bo seria powstawała w drugiej połowie lat 90. na potrzeby magazynu „Comic Fushy Fishing”, a sam autor w swej wieloletniej pracy często ilustrował specjalistyczne artykuły o podobnej tematyce. I choć tak naprawdę nigdy w rzeczywistości łodzi nie kupił, jest w tych historiach wiarygodny jak mało który komiksowy twórca
(tekst ukazał się na facebookowej stronie "Magazynu Kreski")
September 2, 2024
I’d say this manga was like idyllic day on the lake, but it’s filled with too much anxiety. Yet, I found the slow pace, odd characters and unexpected situations, including the trails and tribulations of everyday life, a welcoming friend at my nightstand. I read it slowly, usually before I drifted off to sleep, and hope the second volume is translated into English soon.
August 5, 2023
6/10 stars
January 8, 2023
Anything by the Tsuge brothers that gets translated into English I will grab. I've tended to lean more towards his older brother Yoshiharu Tsuge's work but this one may change my opinion! They're both fantastic.
This one reminds me a bit of Yoshiharu's The Man Without Talent. Here we have another semi-autobiography of a kind of loser character who picks up a new past time.
Novelist Tsuda Kenta decides to buy a small crappy boat in order to get more relaxation time in his life. He figures it'll help him do some more writing as well, help with the writer's block. It's a lovely story, pretty meditative but full of lots of fun character from a drunk fisherman, a perverted monk, and a mysterious man moving blocks in a field to create some abstract artwork.
This was originally written from 1996-2000. Worth picking up for fans of classic alternative manga like Mizuki and Tatsumi.
This one reminds me a bit of Yoshiharu's The Man Without Talent. Here we have another semi-autobiography of a kind of loser character who picks up a new past time.
Novelist Tsuda Kenta decides to buy a small crappy boat in order to get more relaxation time in his life. He figures it'll help him do some more writing as well, help with the writer's block. It's a lovely story, pretty meditative but full of lots of fun character from a drunk fisherman, a perverted monk, and a mysterious man moving blocks in a field to create some abstract artwork.
This was originally written from 1996-2000. Worth picking up for fans of classic alternative manga like Mizuki and Tatsumi.
January 23, 2023
Un racconto di vita reale. Una descrizione effettiva. Condita di pensiero e mistero. I concetti si esprimono a fatti e visioni. Seguiamo il nostro protagonista nella ricerca di quiete. Una lettura tranquilla, docile, come l'acqua di fiume.
January 7, 2018
Guarda laggiù... La luna splende sul corso del fiume Tone.
(pagina 227)
Yosaku va... a tagliar legnaa ehi ehi oooh.
(pagina 246)
(pagina 227)
Yosaku va... a tagliar legnaa ehi ehi oooh.
(pagina 246)
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