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A review by btmarino84
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
5.0
I really like the genre here. That kind of...micro-epic. The big story traversing decades, dealing with all the issues of an entire country and industry but really focusing on one man and his friends and the minutiae of his work.
It's fascinating watching him slowly figuring out more and more what he wants to do visually and storywise. His stuff gradually moves to a darker aesthetic but it's still genre but he has a realization towards the end of the book about "telling stories that could happen to anybody" which I think is a beautiful little foreshadowing of the work he would get most famous for (i definitely want to read some of those older stories now).
I also really enjoyed how much respect and love he clearly had for Tezuka's work, despite the fact that often his work is seen as a conscious rebuttal to it.
RIP
It's fascinating watching him slowly figuring out more and more what he wants to do visually and storywise. His stuff gradually moves to a darker aesthetic but it's still genre but he has a realization towards the end of the book about "telling stories that could happen to anybody" which I think is a beautiful little foreshadowing of the work he would get most famous for (i definitely want to read some of those older stories now).
I also really enjoyed how much respect and love he clearly had for Tezuka's work, despite the fact that often his work is seen as a conscious rebuttal to it.
RIP