The manga is composed of various episodes linked together by the mysterious boy with no particular name. The boy travels to different times and places, trading with different people, letting them see a glimpse of their future or past, or the secrets of others, and bets to see if they can change their fate.
Although she writes primarily older shoujo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.
สิ่งที่ต่างจากเรื่องป๋าฯ อย่างชัดเจนคือเนื้อหามีความรุนแรง เรื่อง a wonder boy มีฉากการฆ่าฟันและการหักหลังเยอะมาก... เมื่อไรที่มนุษย์มีความโลภ มีความกลัวตาย คุณเทพตนนี้ก็จะโผล่มาเมื่อนั้น
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I read this book sometime in September 2017, and it still is my most favourite manga to this day. The art is absolutely gorgeous and in my opinion, the philosophical writing is so beautiful. This manga is absolutely breathtaking and it’s a shame that the other chapters aren’t english translated.
I still reread it from time to time and it’s still amazing.
Man's inhumanity to man has never been so poignant. That's probably not true, but this is still a beautiful book about the ways people can be awful to each other most of the time, but sometimes, they can still surprise you - even if you're an immortal angel boy who keeps returning to WWII to process the author's generational trauma.
A supernatural being floats in and out of families and time, influencing small decisions that have large consequences on human behavior. The chapters are loosely connected, but mostly star the Wonder Boy as he seems somewhat curious, sometimes bored, other times trying to understand humanity itself. Yamashita's hauntingly beautiful and soft art accompany these eerie stories that ask readers to question the nature of man's morality itself.