Takashi Murakami is capable of convey feelings and emotions through his work at the same level as the great Jiro Taniguchi.
After a car accident, a husband stays in vegetative state so the mother has to raise her son solo. In a way that reminds the plot from Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, Murakami makes the story feels more realistic since he is an artist of manga of manners. The development of the lonely mother and how she find strenght in her loved relatives to keep going and carry on her pain. The art is nothing spectacular but it does not matter since the important
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Jun 25, 2020
Kurokouchi
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Takashi Nagasaki (under his pseudonym Richard Woo, guinoist who has worked with Naoki Urosawa for some high level stories such as 20th Century Boys, Pluto, Master Keaton, Monster and Billy Bat) brings us this awesome and deep piece of art about corruption and evil.
Police officer Kurokochi gives name to this adult and well structured masterpiece consisting in 23 mangas that can be divided in 4 archs that are interconected. Richard Woo gives many references to events occurred in Japan during past century like the case of 300 millions yens in late 60's or the sect that comitted a terrorist attack in the 90's, as well ... 
Jun 20, 2020
Shun Umezawa reflects japanese society in his mangas (sometimes in a very pesimistic way) and Utopias is no exception. In this manga we find 9 short stories where the author touches a wide range of topics such as love, social relations, mass control... But he does it with his signature: absurdity, dark humour, metaphors and ridiculous situatios are a few of the resources Umezawa uses to trasnport the reader into a vast espectrum of feelings where he/she can find its own explanation of the story.
It is neccesary to have an open mind to aproach this stories since they are made to make people think and ... |
