A review by foggy_rosamund
Just So Happens by Fumio Obata

2.0

Yumiko is a Japanese woman living and working in London. She loves her new home, but her relationship with London is bittersweet, as she always feels like a foreigner. However, she doesn't feel at home in Japan, either -- something that is driven home to her when her father dies. Her return to Japan brings up many repressed feelings about her relationships. The illustrations in this are beautiful, but it feels incomplete. It's a story about Yumiko's emotional journey, but I'm never sure what she's feeling, and I was frustrated by the lack of believable characterisation.