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#漫画

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mikoto

New comic: "北欧ふたりぐらし" (=living in Northern Europe for two) volume four.
The story of a Japanese couple who moved to Sweden. This work chiefly focuses on their daily lives: learning Swedish, enjoying local cuisine, interacting friendly people to know their values, and experiencing a lot of differences between the two cultures.
The basic tone of this cartoon is mild and calm without serious troubles, and the author depicts the hearty cooperation of the two foreigners. Characteristics of Swedish culture, custom, and social systems are also described with respect, without exoticism. This book features their lives in the second winter, including Christmas, skiing, city tour in #stockholm , rules for securing healthy conditions for pets, and DIY.
(*Images include sweets.)

#manga#漫画#sweden
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mikoto

New comic: "How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom" volume thirteen.
I bought this book on a whim to find the layout of the panels so unique.
Almost all the Japanese comics are read sideways, that is, starting from the upper right panel to the next ones on the left, then move to the lower level, except for the four-panel genre. But this manga is based on the vertical procession of frames, which is extremely rare for Japanese manga. This approach is reasonable because the pages are also vertically long and the comic lines in Japanese are written vertically. Additionally, the author often uses non-rectangle panels and very small ones.
I hesitate to say that this cartoonist is skillful, but I have high hopes for this ambitious challenge.

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Cover picture. A young man and a young furry girl are smiling.
Cited from the book. Starting from the upper right panel, the sequence of this manga proceed to the panel below, then go to the upper left, and to the bottom left panels. I added blue lines to indicate the order of reading these pages.
This example of the frames construction uses double-page spread panels.
Also quoted from the book. Very small panels are used for showing those attending the spot, and a horizontally long panel for indicating the situation, like the "establishing shot" in movies, is seen in this example.
#manga#漫画
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mikoto

New comics: "国を蹴った男" (=the man who kicked a country / who excused himself from the lordship) for two volumes.
The main character Gosuke is an obscure Japanese craftworker who makes mari (鞠)-balls for the medieval aristocratic sports Kemari (蹴鞠, a game of kick-juggling by eight participants).
Gosuke serves a Daimyo-Lord Imagawa Uzuzane (今川氏真). In fact, he is one of the most notorious persons as an incompetent dominator in Japanese history, but this book digs into his personality and describes the mutual trust between Uzuzane and Gosuke.
The author of this cartoonization Ikuhana Niiro is an expert for contemporary love stories, and now he draws the characters vividly, attractively, and emotionally with historical attires and body armors in Sengoku period (16th century).

Cover pictures. An aristocratic man is juggling a white ball with his legs; a craftworker is making (sewing) a ball. This work is completed for two volumes, which were published at the same time.
The main character Gosuke (五助) first meets Uzuzane. The Lord praises the quality of the ball and the craftsman listens to his words humbly and nervously.
Just after playing kemari once with aristocratic formal attire, Uzuzane is satisfied with the participants and the circumstances he can play it.
#manga#漫画
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