SIGN IN
click here to open a random ad page and get 30 minutes of ad-free reading
A Drifting Life

A Drifting Life

A Drifting Life / A Drifting Life In Gekiga / Gekiga Drift / Hanyut / Una Vita tra i Margini / Une vie dans les marges / Vida à Deriva / Życie. Powieść Graficzna. (Polish) / 劇画漂流
1363517
Seinen(M),Comedy,Drama,Historical,Slice of Life,Tragedy
🇬🇧EnglishTr From🇯🇵Japanese
Publication:Completed/1995-?
< 100 votes
4 votes
5
50.0%
4
25.0%
3
00.0%
2
00.0%
1
25.0%
From Drawn & Quarterly:
Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II.
Spanning fifteen years from August 1945 to June 1960, Tatsumi's stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father's financial burdens and his parents' failing marriage, his jealous brother's deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, the manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo's Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)—with whom Tatsumi eventually became a peer and, at times, a stylistic rival. As with his short-story collection, A Drifting Life is designed by Adrian Tomine.
Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 2009, the Best Reality-Based Work and the Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia for the Eisner Award in 2010.
Views
Total: 13.7K/360 days: 13.7K/180 days: 6.4K/90 days: 1.5K/30 days: 517/7 days: 162/24 hours: 13/12 hours: 5/6 hours: 2/60 minutes: 0
Readers
136 follows/32 Plan to read/5 Reading/1 Completed/2 On hold
BATO Page Creation
Agamemnon at GMT
Chapters(49)
1
335+2K
0
29+501
0
54+561
0
8+531
0
18+532
0
13+504
0
14+536
0
6+243
0
8+275
0
7+294
0
4+238
0
12+214
0
7+245
0
11+236
1
8+235
0
10+227
0
2+216
0
3+197
0
3+200
0
4+217
0
5+173
0
1+211
0
3+168
0
4+184
0
5+171
0
4+199
1
3+182
0
1+174
0
3+194
0
2+207
0
4+207
0
4+182
0
3+196
0
2+214
0
3+200
0
2+159
0
7+148
0
7+160
0
6+195
0
4+177
0
4+197
0
2+165
0
4+162
0
1+174
0
2+170
0
3+162
0
2+161
0
5+158
0
7+176
click here to open a random ad page and get 30 minutes of ad-free reading
Reviews
Upload
click here to open a random ad page and get 30 minutes of ad-free reading