Tokyo these days. 1

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Title:

Tokyo these days. 1

Author:

Matsumoto, Taiyō, 1967- author, artist.

Arias, Michael, translator.

Bennett, Deron, letterer.

Series:

Tokyo these days ;

Series Number:

Summary:

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn’t done with him. On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he’s ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Rated T for teen ; 13+

General Note:

This book reads from right to left.

Translation of Tokyo higoro.

Edition:

Viz signature edition.

Physical Description:

214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Psychological comics.

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Subject Term:

Retirees -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Editors -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Manga (Comic books) -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Publishers and publishing -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Geographic Term:

Tokyo (Japan) -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Author(s):

Arias, Michael,

Bennett, Deron,

Publisher:

Viz Media,

Publication Date:

2024

2021

ISBN:

9781974738809

Publication Information:

San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, [2024]

Call Number:

741.5 MATSUMOTO

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Summary

The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life these days.

After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the manga world isn't done with him.

On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself.

Author Notes

Taiyo Matsumoto is best known to English-reading audiences as the creator of the Eisner Award-winning Tekkonkinkreet , which in 2006 was made into an animated feature film of the same name directed by Michael Arias. In 2007, Matsumoto was awarded a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award, and in 2020 he won his second Eisner Award for the English publication of Cats of the Louvre .

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Shiozawa, a veteran editor of manga magazines, decides he's fallen out of touch with the marketplace following the critical and commercial failure of his latest project, so he announces his retirement, effective immediately. Rudderless now that he's separated from the industry to which he devoted so much of his life, he passes time by conversing with his pet bird and working up the willpower to sell his beloved collection of rare manga volumes. He's determined to never have anything to do with the publishing industry again, but after a former disciple seeks advice on dealing with a tempestuous artist, followed by the unexpected death of an artist with whom Shiozawa worked early in his career, he's stirred to devote all of his savings to commissioning a final work and enlists a group of veteran artists, all of whom left the industry disenchanted or traumatized by their professional experiences, to help him create what he describes as "the perfect manga." VERDICT Matsumoto (Cats of the Louvre) offers a provocative meditation on the struggle to maintain artistic integrity while creating art for mass-market consumption.