The Story
BOAT LIFE TP VOL 02
(W) TSUGE TADAO (A) TSUGE TADAO (C) TSUGE TADAO
FLOATING WORLD COMICS
StockID: 165683 SKU: 1125FW0721
Boat Life returns in Volume 2- with novelist Tsuda Kenta continuing to meander between home life- the family jeans shop- and days of solitude on the river. Among this graphic novel's colorful cast of friends- we meet a former manga artist who dives for curiously-shaped stones and sells them from a riverside hut- and an eager producer intent on a film adaptation of one of Tsudas novels. Unfortunately- Tsudas health is deteriorating. He learns from the doctor that his liver was damaged by working at a blood bank when he was young. But Kenta continues his dream boat life- while obsessed by an enormous fish. Dont miss the raucous night of Tsuda and his buddies boozing at a local temple. You'll be hard-pressed to find a more honest account in comics of how Japanese felt about life during and after World War II. While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of aprs-guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in the late 1960s- fans of his brother Tsuge Yoshiharu's The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family.
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BOAT LIFE TP VOL 02
(W) TSUGE TADAO (A) TSUGE TADAO (C) TSUGE TADAO
FLOATING WORLD COMICS
StockID: 165683 SKU: 1125FW0721
Boat Life returns in Volume 2- with novelist Tsuda Kenta continuing to meander between home life- the family jeans shop- and days of solitude on the river. Among this graphic novel's colorful cast of friends- we meet a former manga artist who dives for curiously-shaped stones and sells them from a riverside hut- and an eager producer intent on a film adaptation of one of Tsudas novels. Unfortunately- Tsudas health is deteriorating. He learns from the doctor that his liver was damaged by working at a blood bank when he was young. But Kenta continues his dream boat life- while obsessed by an enormous fish. Dont miss the raucous night of Tsuda and his buddies boozing at a local temple. You'll be hard-pressed to find a more honest account in comics of how Japanese felt about life during and after World War II. While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of aprs-guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in the late 1960s- fans of his brother Tsuge Yoshiharu's The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family.
