Kodomo no Asobi

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It was a short and interesting read, I found it by chance, and I only found the chapter six ("Riding the Monorail"). This manga looked like something I could read in a RAW magazine.

About the chapter:
It reminded me a lot of Kafka, and it gave me a feeling of loneliness and melancholy, I felt kind of dead reading this, sometimes because it made a good atmosphere and sometimes because I couldn't find a sign of life in it.

The history is cool, but nothing really new and no surprises at all. It's about this man who gets lost in his own neighborhood and ends ... up bumping into a monorail, to be brief. At this point, he's far enough away from home that his only attempt at getting there is to follow the monorail to a train station. This world lacks charisma and is lonely from beginning to end, I feel the same applies to the protagonist who has no memorable traits other than effortlessly accepting whatever happens to him. The whole situation that follows could have been avoided at the beginning of the story if he had asked someone where he was, but he just got carried away in a straight line, just like the train that travels along the monorail. He reminds me of certain moments that I hate to remember about myself. This makes him more human than media characters in general, but at times I don't know if this human is alive or dead.

The art is different from what you would expect to see in an ordinary manga work. It's pretty at times, but it doesn't stick to that idea much. I feel that it is very still and the scenes always have a similar dynamic. Everything is kind of repetitive, in a boring way.

The narration is the only way to understand what the protagonist feels, as he always has an expressionless face. It's straightforward and functional.

I plan to read more from these authors, I guess they have more to offer.