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Garden (2011)

by Yuichi Yokoyama(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0982632711 (ISBN13: 9780982632710)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

PictureBox

review 1: This is my first Yokoyama book. Over 300 pages, but a fast read manga. I don't get much from it. What look like a small group of friends want to get into a garden. They are told it isn't open, but they find a way in through a crack in the wall. The "garden" is full of constructs, many geometrical. The group becomes a crowd of hundreds or thousands of "people." There is no leader, none have any consistent personality, and their only purpose seems to be to explore this garden of seemingly infinite dimensions. There are other "beings" in the garden but our crowd wants no interaction, instead hiding from them. Yokoyama is inventive with his constructs. I was enchanted by his mountain of boats and water, for instance. Yet, there is no point or resolution to this explo... moreration, no indication whether there a difference of proportion that might make some sense and it ends more with a whimper than a bang.Too bad.
review 2: at times difficult to make sense of both the narrative and the images, but arresting play on perspective, transparency, and distorted perception. a legion of bazaar humanoids walk through an impossibly staged and ever changing landscape, while making obvious statements about the strangeness they encounter. unlike any other work i've ever encountered, and more disorienting than "Travel," another by Yokoyama. the imagination and visual complexity make it worth while, but it is a bit of a chore. less

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