Gekiga Baka-tachi!!

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Two autobiographies by pillars of the gekiga genre retracing the creation of this movement as well as the cultural context in which it was born. While “A Drifting Life” presents a rich and broad account of it through several decades, “Gekiga Fanatics” only focuses on the few years in the late 50s when the trio Tatsumi-Saito-Masahiko were teens living together and working for hinomaru bunko up until they finally moved to Kokubunji, making it a solid complementary reading. They share the same feeling of being unglorified and neutral outlook on their life, presenting facts in an almost documentary-like manner, entertwining their journey with those of several others popular authors.  read more