Post by moe on Dec 3, 2022 20:18:57 GMT
Anyone else read Floating World’s new release of Boat Life, Vol. 1 by Tsuge Tadao? It was a fun read and really interesting to see how he mellowed out over the years as compared to his early work. It explores the same sort of mindset that fuels Tsuge Yoshiharu’s The Man Without Talent, that of the middle-aged Japanese man’s urge to disappear from society. One thing that sets this apart from his brother’s work is this feeling in Boat Life that the characters just can’t escape from the Post War Period that so defines Tadao’s early manga.
Ryan Holmberg’s supplementary essay helps to contextualize the real life situations that inspire this work as well as the ways the brothers Tsuge have influenced each other over the years. It was also pretty cool to read about fishing manga as a genre, something I know nothing about. There are also two essays by Tsuge Tadao, the longer being a really interesting history of his struggles as a professional cartoonist and his fishing as an escape from life’s mundane realities.
Ryan Holmberg’s supplementary essay helps to contextualize the real life situations that inspire this work as well as the ways the brothers Tsuge have influenced each other over the years. It was also pretty cool to read about fishing manga as a genre, something I know nothing about. There are also two essays by Tsuge Tadao, the longer being a really interesting history of his struggles as a professional cartoonist and his fishing as an escape from life’s mundane realities.
