Fallen Words (2009)

Gekiga Yose: Shibahama / 劇画寄席芝浜

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  • Manga: Fallen Words
    • Japanese Gekiga Yose: Shibahama
      劇画寄席芝浜
      Type: Manga
      Status: Completed
      Published: 03.07.2009
      Volumes / Chapters: 1 / 8
      Mangaka: Author & Illustrator
      Adapted From: Original Work
    • English Fallen Words
      Status: Completed
      Published: 08.05.2012
      Volumes / Chapters: 1 / 8
    • Spanish Goodbye
      Status: Completed
      Published: 10.2004
      Volumes / Chapters: 1 / ?
    • Synonyms: Gekiga Yose: Shiba Hama

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Eight moral comedies from Yoshihiro Tatsumi, edited and designed by Adrian Tomine.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s epic memoir A Drifting Life was published in 2009 to overwhelming acclaim, garnering prestigious awards around the world, landing on the New York Times “graphic books” best-seller list, and inspiring a feature-film adaptation. For his follow-up, Tatsumi shifted gears dramatically, finding inspiration in the centuries-old Japanese storytelling tradition of rakugo or fallen words. By fusing this comedic, performance-based art form with the visual language of manga, Tatsumi proved that, at the age of seventy-five, he is still one of the medium’s foremost innovators.

Humorous, provocative, and thoroughly unpredictable, Fallen Words is a deceptively lighthearted look at the moral quandaries of life and death.
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Tetsú es un macarra de poca monta que vive de su chica. No sabe hacer nada, no tiene ninguna meta, apenas habla siquiera. Un día marchará para no regresar. Mika es una prostituta atormentada por la soledad. Cuando por fin encuentre al hombre que quiera quedarse junto a ella, tal vez la situación resultante no sea tan satisfactoria como había soñado.
Kyoko abandonó a su marido dos años atrás. A su regreso, descubre que ha mantenido la casa exactamente igual a como la dejó el día de su partida. Yamaguchi y otros hombres de negocios tienen una apuesta en marcha: el que acierte el número de fallecidos en accidente de circulación de la semana siguiente, se lleva el dinero. Pero qué importa el dinero cuando cada accidente es una despedida, cuando a cada hola le sigue un adiós. Así funciona y así nos lo retrata Tatsumi en esta magistral antología de historias breves: sin sensiblerías, sin moralejas, con un pulso narrativo casi documental y una sensibilidad capaz de conmover al más pintado.
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