Books by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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review 1: Fallen Words is full of short one-shots about everyday characters in everyday situations with a humourous twist. Each part is an individual story based on a rakugo (a type of Japanese storytelling) set in the Edo period of Japan. With this format the author is able to explore a g...
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review 1: Decent but repetitive. A lot of the story goes from one project to another. Hiroshi feels uncertain about his work but completes it, there's a clip of the cover art, more people are brought in, and it repeats. "A Drifting Life" occasionally looks into the act of creation, where i...
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review 1: I could completely understand not giving this book a decent rating. I'm rating it four stars because I enjoyed it and I can see it's simplistic story as a plus and not a negative.The dialogue reads like a Speed Racer cartoon. I mean that in the best possible way. Everyone speaks ...
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review 1: I can not be objective about books of young societies of cartoonists gathering together to ACHIEVE DREAMS, nor about books in which a series of skeevy publishers must be navigated in the face of a booming low-rent fiction/narrative market (c.f. Lost Illusions.) There are clear fl...
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review 1: The back of the book is correct - this truly is an epic autobiography by a manga master. The work is rich with Japanese post-war history (most of which was unknown to me). Plus, Tatsumi gives us a remarkable look into the origin of the Gekiga manga style, the unique relationshi...