Munou no Hito
The Man Without Talent
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Munou no Hito

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Incompetent Man, A Worthless Person
Japanese: 無能の人
English: The Man Without Talent
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 6
Status: Finished
Published: Jun 1985
Genres: Drama Drama, Slice of Life Slice of Life
Serialization: None
Authors: Tsuge, Yoshiharu (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.501 (scored by 16861,686 users)
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Ranked: #29542
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Popularity: #4851
Members: 4,494
Favorites: 119
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Synopsis

Unable to find a proper job, former manga artist Sukezou Sukegawa has been reduced to running a doomed business venture of his own design: selling stones on the very riverside from where he collects them. Refusing to sacrifice his artistic integrity and re-enter the manga industry, and with numerous failed schemes under his belt, Sukezou firmly entrenches himself into a position of destitution. Despite having a family to care for—including his breadwinner wife, whose opinion of him is ever-souring—he stubbornly refuses to abandon his stone trade. With one misadventure after another, Sukezou attempts to make a profit in a profitless situation, firmly believing that success is simply a stone waiting to be turned.

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Background

Munou no Hito was published in English as The Man Without Talent by New York Review Comics on January 28, 2020. It was translated by comic historian Ryan Holmberg, who also contributed an essay about author Yoshiharu Tsuge to the volume. It was also released in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora Veneta on October 21, 2019.

The manga was adapted into a live-action film that premiered in Japan on November 2, 1991. It was also adapted into a TV drama that was broadcast from July 27, 1998, to August 3, 1998.

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Reviews

Dec 29, 2022
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The Man Without Talent, by Yoshiharu Tsuge, is a semi-biographical manga, which shows part of the experiences and emotions of the author himself, with an introspective, realistic and melancholic vision. In the 1980s, when the manga was published, Japan was experiencing explosive economic growth, and the westernization process initiated in the post-war period was already at an advanced stage. As a result, a large part of the population began to live in large urban centers, adopting a Western lifestyle (which encompasses fashion, customs and consumerism linked to the American way of life), and leaving behind, frozen in time and restricted to some inland towns, the ...
Jan 4, 2022
This is the first time that I’ve heard of Yoshiharu Tsuge. Apparently, he’s a cult figure in Japan for his Gekiga works.
This story— The man without talent has 6chapters that deals with the worth of a man. Is a man worth something only if he can make money? Should you keep working a job just for money or should you follow your passion? The protagonist was a mangaka initially, but decided that he wanted to do something new. So he stopped drawing, started a side-gig. Unsuccessfully. Tried again, unsuccessfully.
And so we see how he has lived his life, and continues to do so.
We also ...
Nov 29, 2020
I went to this manga thinking that was gonna be some depressing story about failure and nihilism, but i was greatly surprised!! We have this two elements in the story but they are not exaggerated or the center of the story.

The story focus on the main character's efforts to sustain his family and the people and situations that he gets envolved with, that is what make me like this manga so much,i cared about the character,and questioned some decisons that he takes. And of course, the art, that despite being distoant its incredible.

I wanted to see what the man without talent would ...

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