A review by jekutree
Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
5.0
Again Tatsumi impresses me.
In this volume, we see Tatsumi get even more confident in his work ditching his trope of silent male protagonists to feature a few female ones and now with narration. This shows his newfound confidence in his ability as a writer. The themes in the stories remain similar, but he branches out from telling stories exclusively about blue collar Japanese men to varied tales with some being almost fairy tale like in nature.
A cool thing I noticed about Tatsumi’s work is that almost every story has a panel of his character lost among of a sea of other faces, and I think that sums up the feeling of his work perfectly. Tatsumi spotlights those who would be lost in the crowd. His work feels as if he picks a random person and really just puts them at their lowest. These stories feel almost private at times and I think that’s such a great quality about the work.
In this volume, we see Tatsumi get even more confident in his work ditching his trope of silent male protagonists to feature a few female ones and now with narration. This shows his newfound confidence in his ability as a writer. The themes in the stories remain similar, but he branches out from telling stories exclusively about blue collar Japanese men to varied tales with some being almost fairy tale like in nature.
A cool thing I noticed about Tatsumi’s work is that almost every story has a panel of his character lost among of a sea of other faces, and I think that sums up the feeling of his work perfectly. Tatsumi spotlights those who would be lost in the crowd. His work feels as if he picks a random person and really just puts them at their lowest. These stories feel almost private at times and I think that’s such a great quality about the work.