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Gilles Poitras
Posts: 482 Location: Oakland California |
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Jason.
Excellent choice, thanks. I love this manga and wish we had more of his works available in translation. By the way you write "picking wild radishes and cabbage" Go back and take a look at those pages. Those "wild" vegetables are growing in very neat rows. This is part of the humor I like about this work. |
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
Posts: 357 Location: San Francisco |
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I noticed that! But *he* calls them "wild", so who am I to argue? ^^ At least it's not like the time he steals food from another homeless person. |
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Lord Geo
Posts: 2730 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
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Damn it, Jason, now you got me wanting to buy another manga here! First Dodekain, now Disappearnace Diary... This sounds like such a wrong thing to write about, at least in the comical way Azuma does it, but at the same time it sound absolutely hilarious.
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erinfinnegan
ANN Columnist
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Disappearance Diary is one of my favorite manga - possibly of all time, maybe in the top ten or top five. I love autobiographical comics. Sometimes the author's diary pages are my favorite in any given fiction manga.
That said, I heard that I'll Give it My All…Tomorrow is based on a true story. When I buy copies of I'll Give it My All…Tomorrow I feel vaguely responsible, like if I don't buy them the author will have to keep working at McDonalds. I had an undergraduate I work with read that one, and she liked it, but I felt bad... like was this inspiring or discouraging a young artist? |
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reanimator
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Great review. Life is stranger than fiction, isn't it?
I wonder if someone in Japan or anywhere in the world did it. Nah, they're too busy doing escapist stuffs like tons of naughty versions. Disappearance Diary is a good manga to have. I re-read it from time to time. |
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UtenaAnthy
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This is probably a very good manga, but I guess I'm not that interested in biographies (auto or otherwise). In fairness this is probably in part because there are so many awful cash-in auto/biographies released by/about celebrities, but I read almost exclusively fiction (along with some feminist and other rights-related and social conscience stuff and science books every now and then, but I haven't read any of those in a while).
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dragon695
 Posts: 1377 Location: Clemson, SC |
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Epic Fail! So much for drawing what you like, eh? |
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
Posts: 357 Location: San Francisco |
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Well, it's not like Comiket doesn't have loli, 30 years later. >_> Underneath the surface of seas of yaoi are all kinds of weird and creepy guys' stuff. Pervy men's manga lives on!! |
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NonoAsumy
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This column always makes me want to read so much. And sometimes dwell in memories.
This manga sounds really interesting (and a little unique), so I think I will just grab it from amazon these days. |
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
Posts: 357 Location: San Francisco |
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I'd like to add that I think this is really a manga about alcoholism and depression, not homelessness.
He spends most of the manga homeless, and there's tons of scenes of him going through trash and stuff, but he's not homeless because he's poor; he's homeless because he's a depressed alcoholic. That part of the story might be more universal than homelessness, which (thankfully) not as many people have experienced. |
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hyojodoji
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Though Azuma Hideo may have become known to foreign readers mainly via Disappearance Diary, Disappearance Diary is very accessible, for Azuma. (So the authorities could give an award to it.) Yamamoto Naoki, who compiled Azuma Hideo Best Selection, compared manga by Azuma in the Yakekuso period and the Absurd period, which are his essential works, to Yamashita Yōsuke's free jazz. I wonder whether those manga will be accepted by foreign readers, including editors and translators. |
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