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NonNonBa

Shigeru Mizuki

4.19 AVERAGE


"NonNonBa" é um mangá de autoria de Shigeru Mizuki, escrito em 1977, lançado no Brasil em 2018 no Brasil pela Editora Devir.

Nesse mangá acompanhamos parte da infância do autor, e sua amizade com a NonNonBa do título, uma senhora idosa , que após perder o marido e a netinha, vai trabalhar como empregada na casa da família do autor.Eles criam um forte laço, principalmente pq ela tem muitas histórias sobre Yokais, que são os diferentes tipos de espiritos do folclore japonês.

O mangá é bastante episódico: NonNonBa conta sobre um Yokai e não demora muito ele aparece para o autor ou para um dos seus irmãos, e assim vai seguindo. A dinâmica muda um pouco com o surgimento de uma menina ingênua do inerior, que vai morar na casa "amaldiçoada" da vizinhança.

A arte me incomodou um pouco por ser bem atipica e difeente do que estamos aacostumadaos a ver em mangás e pra ser bem sincera, é até bem feia, em alguns momentos. Já um ponto bastante positivo, na minha opinião, é a existência de um glossário com a descrição de cada um dos yokais citados.

Fica a ressalva de que em alguns momentos é um tanto chato por ser episódico, e fica a impressão de que a história não engrena e não está indo pra lugar nenhum.Mas de um modo geral gostei.
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I loved it.
I learned a lot about spirits.
I loved the granny.
I loved the artstyle, it suited the humorous nature of the book.
Couldn’t stop reading. It was quite enjoyable and comforting. I wanna reread it many times in the future 
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Sweet and nostalgic for childhood

As a new reader to the world of manga, this autobiography had everything I love: history, complex characters and satisfying development and magic, magic, everywhere. I can't wait to read more of Mizuki's work.
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A great memoir, NonNonBa has the perfect blend of the supernatural creatures of Japanese folk tales and a very tangible childhood in rural 20th-century Japan. Our unlikely hero prefers to indulge in stories of goblins and monsters and spirits from the grandma figure in his life and draw manga than to go to middle school. You can imagine his mother's worries. There is a certain sadness that runs through the cheerful and carefree childhood days, where boy gangs declare daily war against each other. There is extreme poverty, child labor, crime, disease, death, and even child trade. But like many lives, there is humor, cheer, victory, and friendship, and there is family. Almost everything that happens, even the stains on the ceiling, can be explained by the mysterious and scary spirits that lurk around everywhere, from bathtubs to untraveled roads at nights. Mizuki's memoir documents how the undesirable or horrible things in life can be and have been explained by superstitious or religious beliefs for centuries. The art and the panels are exquisitely drawn. Some panels have such great detail that one can spend a good amount of time admiring the story in slow motion.
All in all, in terms of story and art work, NonNonBa is a masterpiece. As a memoir, it shines in depth and humor.

Mizuki lovingly remembers the various yokai (spirit monsters) that dwelled with him in his childhood. The picture he paints is a delightful gumbo filled with childhood innocence, spirits, culture, and adventure mixed with a healthy dose of childhood fear.

Materiel overlaps other books by the author, which seems a bit lazy to me, but good read.