The characters are conflicted and not entitled. It is about the aspirations of gentle souls looking for love in a complicated time as Japan was becoming a rich society after the Pacific war. Highly recommended!" - Stewart Tame, Goodreads There's much more range and depth to be found here. I'm particularly fond of "A Scarlet Kiss" and "To Somewhere. The artwork makes it seem like a gag, but there's a wistfulness and subtlety to these stories.There are some fine stories in here.
David Schaafsma, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago Everyday people, not Hamlet, let’s just say…It is great that we are getting all of these older manga in translation, to help us get to know all this comics history.” Will Eisner’s Lower East Side depression stories. A little bit of Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) territory, in American comics, or Seth’s work, in Canada, and I love all this stuff. “…this is tonally Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) territory. "Engrossing and deeply moving." - The AV Club "An often underappreciated artist, Matsumoto had a gift for showing how people-in their awkward, apprehensive, and delightfully absurd ways-relate to one another." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
- Paul Gravett, author of Comics Art and editor of 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die Matsumoto pinpoints the day-to-day troubles and modest triumphs of city-dwellers striving for independence, security, success, sex, and maybe love.” “Utterly endearing, unsentimental, and wise.
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