足摺り水族館

by panpanya

panpanya 1冊目の単行本です。

・単行本「足摺り水族館」のあらまし

単行本「足摺り水族館」は、2010年と2011年にそれぞれ私家版として発行された「足摺り水族館」及び「ASOVACE」という本をもとに、一般流通向けに再編集したものです。「ASOVACE」はpanpanyaがそれまでに描いた短編漫画作品を一冊に纏めたもので、総ページ数300ページ以上を藁半紙にコピー、和綴じで自家製本されています。また私家版「足摺り水族館」は「一冊の本をして水族館感を体現させる」というコンセプトのもと制作され、これもひとつひとつ表紙を特殊加工し、手作りしています。
今回作品を纏め直すにあたり、他の漫画短編作品と性格の異なる「足摺り水族館」をどう扱い、作品集に統合するかという点で特に難儀しました。最終的に「足摺り水族館」を核とし、その一冊の作品の中に各短編を織り込むという考え方でpanpanya自ら設計編集することで「足摺り水族館」の意趣を損なわず統合し作品集とすることに成功しています。
今回発行される単行本版「足摺り水族館」では活動初期からのpanpanyaの漫画作品を集成するとともに、一冊の本を固有の作品として製本し発行するpanpanyaの活動を、より広く手軽な量産品の形態に落とし込んで紹介するものです。

Genres: Manga, Comics

324 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2013

About the author

Panpanya (Japanese: パンパンヤ) is a Japanese manga author. Their real name, age and gender are unknown to the general public.
Panpanya's books are collections of short stories, usually first published in the 'josei' (woman) magazine Rakuen. The stories mix slice-of-life and surrealism and are independent from one another, albeit sharing a roster of recurrent characters. The nameless protagonist, generally seen as a cartoon alter-ego of the author, is a girl of undefined age, sometimes portrayed as a schooler, sometimes as an adult.
Panpanya emerged from the indie doujinshi (amateur) manga scene around 2010. Their professional career started in 2013 with the book Ashizuri Suizokukan (Ashizuri Aquarium). The following book An Invitation from a Crab (2014) received international praises and was translated into English and Italian. All of their subsequent works have appeared in Italian, and some of them in English and French.

Reviews

[Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surrealist masterpiece

[Elens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Molto strano

[Kerstin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goes extremely hard

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a masterwork of surrealist art!! I think the most striking feature of Panpanya’s work is scenery rendered with hyper-detailed line work while the primary figures are left in as intentionally simplistic. It’s a really startling effect. The themes explored in this anthology seem to match the style aptly - the pages are filled with strange creatures and unsettling places with the quality of another dimension adjacent to ours. Many are sea-creature based, as the title would point to, though not all. The ideas of discovery, exploration, and preservation also permeate. The main figure wanders and comes across these labyrinths of strange. Some places are rotting, forgotten, or overlooked, and the idea of whether or not we might find use in the practice of formal exhibition is also explored. Really really cool stuff!!

Read in Japanese

[Raymond Mori · Rating 3 out of 5]

ніби потрапив у дитячі сновидіння, які наповнені невідомістю, катастрофами, пошуками, читанням енциклопедії про риб та наукової фантастики

1. Ashizuri Suizokukan
2. Kanzen Shoutengai
3. Sugoroku
4. Atarashii Sekai
5. Innocent World
6. 2012-nen 4-gatsu 19-nichi no Yume
7. Ashizuri Suizokukan
8. Meido
9. Sputnik
10. Mudai
11. Machine Jidai no Doubutsu-tachi
12. Ashizuri Suizokukan
13. Kimi no Sakana
14. Ending Theme

[pato]

o yea

[Geshusbakagen · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderfully portrays adventure and the unknown in a big city or otherwise
I wish I had a physical copy so I could hold it while rereading.