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Sunny #3-4
Sunny, Vol. 2
O que é Sunny? Sunny é um carro. Um carro que você usa para passear com sua mente. Ele leva você para os lugares com os quais você sonha. Sunny também é uma história sobre superar as adversidades, das maneiras que importam. Sunny conta as histórias das crianças e jovens que vivem no Jardim Escola Hashinoko, um lar de acolhimento para órfãos e crianças em situação de risco. Seus sonhos e angústias ganham vida e emoção no belo traço de Taiyo Matsumoto, um dos autores mais importantes em atividade no Japão.
Neste volume Taiyo Matsumoto se aprofunda ainda mais na vida de seus personagens: os meninos aprontam bastante com a criação de porcos do vizinho, o pai de Yano aparece de surpresa, Sei começa a namorar, Asako vai se encontrar (e confrontar) sua mãe e a Kii-chan se despede de seus amigos.
Neste volume Taiyo Matsumoto se aprofunda ainda mais na vida de seus personagens: os meninos aprontam bastante com a criação de porcos do vizinho, o pai de Yano aparece de surpresa, Sei começa a namorar, Asako vai se encontrar (e confrontar) sua mãe e a Kii-chan se despede de seus amigos.
- GenresBande DessinéeManga
420 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2020
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About the author
Taiyo Matsumoto
163 books617 followersSee also: 松本大洋 and 松本 大洋
Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.
In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto started the series 'Ping Pong' in 1996. 'Number Five' followed in 2001, published by Shogakukan.
Source: Lambiek website bio .
Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.
In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto started the series 'Ping Pong' in 1996. 'Number Five' followed in 2001, published by Shogakukan.
Source: Lambiek website bio .
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March 5, 2025
Second omnibus volume of this series - manga but literary. Perhaps autobiographical, stories about the people who live (including the caretakers and their families) in a home for children in 1970s Japan. It is very adult (while getting the children precisely right) and very Japanese, that feeling of watching reflections on a pond, and getting a hint you need to feel in yourself of how deep it is, what is moving underneath.
Little is explicit, there is no overwhelming plot, it's all about the emotions in each chapter. I often do not understand things totally, and through no fault of the translation (directly into Portugal Portuguese, and it seemed very good for me, with lots of notes) but because it is all so subtle and I am missing cultural references - like for example in the last story here (issue 24) when Taro protects the kids by driving away a homeless guy. I think. I think the giant mochi cake might have some religious or cultural meaning, but it's away above my head. (In fact I do not totally understand Taro, who seems almost mythical, kami-like sometimes...)
But even if I do not understand completely, even if it is too subtle and poetical for my usual taste, it's clearly so felt, so subtle, so insightful, often so beautiful (the retired director of the home received the visit of a former child resident, oh wow...) and moving, so I am not rating it any less than 5 stars. But keep in mind it's unusual, and not at all what I expected from the blurb and descriptions.
About the art, well for me it is Art, standing on its own and not just a vehicle for the storytelling. Multimedia often, the use of perspective, the use of negative space, the line, but also fitting so perfectly the time period and emotions it is portraying. The art, is to my taste, flawless and original and fascinating.
Little is explicit, there is no overwhelming plot, it's all about the emotions in each chapter. I often do not understand things totally, and through no fault of the translation (directly into Portugal Portuguese, and it seemed very good for me, with lots of notes) but because it is all so subtle and I am missing cultural references - like for example in the last story here (issue 24) when Taro protects the kids by driving away a homeless guy. I think. I think the giant mochi cake might have some religious or cultural meaning, but it's away above my head. (In fact I do not totally understand Taro, who seems almost mythical, kami-like sometimes...)
But even if I do not understand completely, even if it is too subtle and poetical for my usual taste, it's clearly so felt, so subtle, so insightful, often so beautiful (the retired director of the home received the visit of a former child resident, oh wow...) and moving, so I am not rating it any less than 5 stars. But keep in mind it's unusual, and not at all what I expected from the blurb and descriptions.
About the art, well for me it is Art, standing on its own and not just a vehicle for the storytelling. Multimedia often, the use of perspective, the use of negative space, the line, but also fitting so perfectly the time period and emotions it is portraying. The art, is to my taste, flawless and original and fascinating.
December 28, 2023
Volume 2 is pretty much in line with the first volume. Whatever you think about the first one, won't change here.
The author expands the stories about the orphans. Just like in the first volume, some stories are more joyful or sad than others.
Sei is probably my favorite character. He is the low key smart kid of the bunch. He is closed and tries to overcome his problems on his own. He is a brave and strong little guy, and rumours say he may have a girlfriend. 😏
Anyway, it's "nice" to see the orphans going through their struggles. In a way, their struggles are similar to everyone else, just in a different form.
The interesting part is that they dream so much of having a family but they don't realize that they are each other's family.
The author expands the stories about the orphans. Just like in the first volume, some stories are more joyful or sad than others.
Sei is probably my favorite character. He is the low key smart kid of the bunch. He is closed and tries to overcome his problems on his own. He is a brave and strong little guy, and rumours say he may have a girlfriend. 😏
Anyway, it's "nice" to see the orphans going through their struggles. In a way, their struggles are similar to everyone else, just in a different form.
The interesting part is that they dream so much of having a family but they don't realize that they are each other's family.
April 10, 2024
4,5*
Só queria dar colo a todos as crianças. O quão duro é viver sem pais, estar abandonado no mundo e desejar algo tão simples como um lar com carinho e amor.
Só queria dar colo a todos as crianças. O quão duro é viver sem pais, estar abandonado no mundo e desejar algo tão simples como um lar com carinho e amor.
July 9, 2022
4,5/5
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