A review by dereksilva
Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.0

The short stories were enjoyable for the most part, exploring the unhappiness that normal people experience in their day-to-day lives. I enjoyed that the stories were distinct but that their characters all kind of seemed to bleed into one another. Seeing main characters seemingly repeat as secondary characters in other stories made it feel like Tatsumi really just looked at a cross-section Japanese inhabitants instead of just a few random people whose experiences aren't representative of Japan as a whole. My biggest qualm is that the stories are also very centered on men, with men usually made out to be the victims, at the expense of women. I also think some of the stories needed another page or two to more fully explore their respective ideas.