"God Lies" is more than the sum of it's parts. The art is pretty simple. The characters are endearing, but nothing special. And the story - minus a macabre twist - is quite straight forward. But when it ends, you can't help feeling you wish there was more; and not because the story is lacking, or the ending botched.
It just strikes a chord you'd almost forgotten you have. It also does so without giving sermons or putting up airs. Now if that isn't art, what is?
P.S:
I was about to go on an epic rant about how this manga builds up a marvellous "fabula", and traps us within it by not giving away much of it. And how it amplifies this effect by constructing a classic linear narrative without resolving the ending, thus making us explore the said fabula even more in our own imagination. But that would have been against the very nature of this little gem. It would have been akin to explaining a joke. It would squeeze all the fun out of it.
Go read this; and bask in its serene minimal unpretentiousness.
P.P.S:
In a narrative based work of art ( Novels, Movies, Series, etc) the "fabula" is the world in which the story is happening. the "sujet" is the part of that world the artist is showing us. For example, in Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring, the fabula is the middle earth, and the sujet is the adventures of the fellowship while trying to take the ring to Mordor. Both terms are of Russian origins, and are used primarily in film analysis; but apply to most other narrative based works of art also.
