Kyonen no Yuki - Vol. 1 Ch. 6 - My Youth in Manga

[MangaDex]

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Thanks for the series, great art, "nice" stories of the old manga world. A bit of a bummer chapters usually has someone died. Well, old people likes to talk about death, so it might not be that huge of an issue for the mangaka.

 

[BluWacky]

Thanks for the series, great art, "nice" stories of the old manga world. A bit of a bummer chapters usually has someone died. Well, old people likes to talk about death, so it might not be that huge of an issue for the mangaka.

It's part of the reason Muraoka started the series; for him, it was about getting down his memories of people that he'd never get the chance to meet again (presumably, therefore, his younger brother is already dead, if that's who he was going to write about in part 8?).

It's not just the fact that so many of these figures died that's sobering for me; it's that they died relatively young, in their 50s (or even younger, in the obvious case of K). I don't think it's a massive over-analysis to see that Muraoka used manga as a way to flee his pretty crap homelife and that he took a commercial pathway in his career for the sake of stability - not a value judgment, just a statement - and that there is both nostalgia and a warning in these stories of insane levels of overwork and potentially deadly burnout in the service of passion.

 

[VicBur]

The shaky handwriting in the last page 🥲

 

[Derpthenerd]

"What was the point of all that passion?"

absolutely soul-crushing page