If you’re checking this entry, it’s probably because Kiiroi Hon or Yellow Book, a manga written by Fumiko Takano, won the 2003 Osamu Tezuka Grand Prize, but chances are the name Fumiko Takano will be completely unknown to you except if you’ve read some of her translated interviews with Taiyou Matsumoto or with Katsuhiro Otomo.
She’s actually one of the big influential figures in the industry, she was inspired mainly by Moto Hagio and by some of the big authors of COM (an avant-garde magazine created to rival with Garo) such as Fumiko Okada or Shinji Nagashima and started writing comics in the late 70s.
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: The Yellow Book: A Friend Named Jacques Thibault, Cloudy Wednesday, Mayonnaise, I Live at 2-2-6 Japanese: 黄色い本 ～ジャック・チボーという名の友人～ InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 8
Status: Finished
Published: 2001
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
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Takano, Fumiko (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #163182 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #14871
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Oct 29, 2020
A UNIQUE SLICE OF LIFE
It's a quiet story that takes place in a modest Japanese household around the middle of the 20th Century (deduced from the stuff in the manga). It's very gentle and delicately drawn, and in it a sensitive book-loving girl approaches the end of middle or high school (probably the latter), and is soon to transition to work. As the big change begins to loom, she is reading a translated 19th Century novel. She reads it everywhere, at home, at school, and on the way between, and finds it captivating. All around the girl as she reads, ordinary life plays out, and the ... |
