Suzuki Oji

Anthology of the following stories: Shape Waltz / Pomegranate and Typhoon / Mugibata Field / Omatsuyoi no Yoru / Violet / Light in the Garden / Town of Songs / 100 Million Years / Swallow / Hibari! Hibari! / Jigoku / Girl and God / Love and Shower / Mube Sakuya / Switchboard / Chikyu no Yokaze / Touch of the sea / Happy couple / Circus / Road town

In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn't have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that drifts through memories of faces and places, before settling back on the traveling salesman and the boy pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head, discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering one-shots from every Garo mangaka up until 1984.

A strange character, half philosopher, half charlatan, arrives at a small mountain inn run by a lonely woman who also looks after her younger sister Karen and her younger brother Heikichi. He leads them into a wonderful world, searching for fox eggs among the pebbles in the river and talking with angels. (Source: Éditions Picquier, translated)

Collection of shorts originally created between 1969 and 1978.

The title story depicts the fresh vibrancy of an adolescent girl on a motorcycle on a road that leads to the sea. In addition to the title story, this collection of essays and representative works from the author debut in 1969 depicts the life of a young man at the end of his wanderings.

Tokyo Goodbye Circus Shousuke Atari de Mukou no Ramunean Natsukashi no Yoru Naki no Ame Kaki wo Kamu Kimi to Tabisuru Ano Shimakageyuki