Avant-Garde Yumeko

[MangaDex]

 

[rozen]

Reversed Sketch Senpai lold

 

[Purue]

what the f is this??

 

[junonlee3]

It is a sensual gag! ?

 

[wakthorweebweeby]

i wish there was 1 more chapter where they got togheter as boyfriend and girlfriend that woulöd be the best ending for me

 

[EricGN]

What the actual f*ck!?

 

[orochijes]

Read this just to see what Oshimi Shuzo's earliest stuff was like...he's come a long way...
Still, I can't quite say "this sucks" like I want to. It has a certain passion to it. A unique expression is here, even if it's unpolished.

 

[Midriff-lad]

So this is what they call "Kino", eh? Brilliant.

 

[Nanfi]

What the

 

[Roiisu]

A shame it isn't longer.

 

[r3ify]

Oshimi Suzo's magnum opus.

 

[onespecialboi]

This manga is Weirdchamp galore wtf

 

[Darroth]

It feels like I just took drugs

 

[CallMePlez]

Im on drugs, from this manga

 

[comicbookguy]

 

[aaaabababab]

how tf did i not realise this was made by shuzo oshimi, i literally just noticed months after reading it

holy fuck everything makes sense now

 

[vikispod]

how tf did i not realise this was made by shuzo oshimi, i literally just noticed months after reading it

holy fuck everything makes sense now

wtf

 

[logang4lyf]

I understand Oshimi and his expression of fixation and confusion in this story. I feel bad that Oshimi's work might be mistaken as a comedy (similar feelings with "Devil Ecstasy"). Because it is so absurd or out of the ordinary and so extremely fixated people don't take it seriously.

People might say Yumeko is a bad person for her actions, while it's true I think it is important to look at her as a character, an expression, and a method of storytelling. She's selfish because she's trying to understand a phenomenon in her head with no regards for the fact that said phenomenon is a deeply personal thing to people. Because she is so hyper fixated she doesn't really understand this which isn't an excuse for her, I'm saying that's the story and circumstances that lead to the ultimate message. She doesn't see a dong as something that should be attached to a person like when she does the portrait of him. He wants to see it and seems to be expecting a drawing of himself but it all comes out as abstract shapes. It's all about the idea and Oshimi captures this fixation greatly in something like that simple and abstract phallic shape. Through just this shape repeatedly Oshimi captures so much emotion, mystery, confusion, consumption, and passion. I can understand and relate to Yumeko especially after knowing Oshimi's life experiences.

I fully believe him when he says this is a reputable coming of age story because I see it in all of it's crude beauty although others might not take it seriously. Oshimi's early works remind me of a drawing which you would see carved into a middle schooler's desk. In his lines and in his expression. I like that they are raw and extremely expressive in this way. I love his work and it's great to see him evolve his expression from crude stories like this to being able to express himself through deeper psychological plots too.

 

[joeygold]

I understand Oshimi and his expression of fixation and confusion in this story. I feel bad that Oshimi's work might be mistaken as a comedy (similar feelings with "Devil Ecstasy"). Because it is so absurd or out of the ordinary and so extremely fixated people don't take it seriously.

People might say Yumeko is a bad person for her actions, while it's true I think it is important to look at her as a character, an expression, and a method of storytelling. She's selfish because she's trying to understand a phenomenon in her head with no regards for the fact that said phenomenon is a deeply personal thing to people. Because she is so hyper fixated she doesn't really understand this which isn't an excuse for her, I'm saying that's the story and circumstances that lead to the ultimate message. She doesn't see a dong as something that should be attached to a person like when she does the portrait of him. He wants to see it and seems to be expecting a drawing of himself but it all comes out as abstract shapes. It's all about the idea and Oshimi captures this fixation greatly in something like that simple and abstract phallic shape. Through just this shape repeatedly Oshimi captures so much emotion, mystery, confusion, consumption, and passion. I can understand and relate to Yumeko especially after knowing Oshimi's life experiences.

I fully believe him when he says this is a reputable coming of age story because I see it in all of it's crude beauty although others might not take it seriously. Oshimi's early works remind me of a drawing which you would see carved into a middle schooler's desk. In his lines and in his expression. I like that they are raw and extremely expressive in this way. I love his work and it's great to see him evolve his expression from crude stories like this to being able to express himself through deeper psychological plots too.

Long way to say Yumeko might be acoustic

 

[logang4lyf]

Long way to say Yumeko might be acoustic

While this may be true it was not my point although I can see how it could be misconstrued that way. (Reading back I did not write very coherently and I still probably won't) I was reading comments from others thinking maybe they were looking at her too literally and got concerned my point would sound like I am excusing Yumeko's actions as a person rather than explaining my interpretation of her behavior as a character if I just came out with it right away. Instead of explaining her personality as acoustic (although she does have a hyper fixation on sex, I think the goal of the story is to communicate a different kind of psychological obsession based off the typical tone and theme of Oshimi's other works.) I think I would describe her as maybe not hypersexual herself but something more like: An early rough expression of Shuzo Oshimi's rabbit-hole-like obsessive addicted hypersexual drive. This expression later becomes more refined and better understood/developed by Oshimi in his later series, I think.

(Random tangent)
I'm glad to see what I think is his thoughts around Avante Garde Yumeko in his newest manga, Sound of a Blink. The main character's (pretty sure it's an autobiography) wry smile when he presents the manga to his brother in the hospital "Women vs Men" and everyone is saying it is funny makes me wonder if he had written that manga unironically too and was becoming bothered that his brother thought it was funny. Even though his brother has a brain tumor and is appreciating the manga still, our main character is so disconnected from his family that he is able to muster an almost condescending tired expression because of the unintended reaction to his genuine art. Later, the manga publisher seems to take Avante Garde Yumeko unserious as well, casually saying "How about another one like 'Yumeko' on fetishes?" as if the work is nothing more than some kind of light-hearted or typical fetish gag manga which our main turned out for the novelty of fetish art. Meanwhile our main daydreams about this meeting during the middle of a breakfast with his fiance who he has the heavy decision of calling off marrying her on his shoulders, completely consumed by sexuality as a sedation-like escape from his life. These manga are not the novelty or strange gag people take it for, but to him an addictive escape which is capable of complete intoxication. When I first read Oshimi's manga, the addictive obsessed feeling was the first impression that I got. I've honestly never been sucked into a manga author so heavily.