What defines Azuma's manga is its neat and tidy 'art'. On a different level from the corporeal art of Yamagami Tatsuhiko (山上たつひこ) and others, it is 'art as a symbol' in the style of Tezuka's manga. The problem of what the depicted object represents has enabled manga to speak and to describe. Meaning, manga art can be said to be art as words. Of course, the complexity of manga art lies in the fact it is much more than that, but the manga screen, which has always struggled with moving images, has continued to fluctuate. The gap between film and manga. I believe you'll get the idea if I say on one side there's Ootomo Katsuhiro (大友克洋) and on the other side there's Azuma Hideo. However, art contains much more information than a single word.
Of course, words also carry a lot of information, but they acquire concreteness and become enclosed through the combination of symbols. Just as poetic language denies its concreteness and normal combinations and searches for new meanings, manga pictures also acquire new meanings by dismantling normal combinations. This is often what makes Azuma Hideo's manga interesting. However, new combinations will not be born unless the laws of the symbols in manga pictures are under control.
Azuma Hideo is a writer of technique. His logically constructed works are worlds under his control, based on written rules, made possible by his manga techniques.
This world is an 'alternate world' based on an information system that combines manga, the real world, and the alternate world. There are no battles, stories, or dramas as its axis; instead, there is the everyday life of Azuma World, where chaotic objects and events are arranged in parallel. It is the everyday life of manga, and a vast space that is consumed by the everyday life in the reader's head. Ajima Shidio is chased by deadlines, Bukimi runs rampant, Nahaha multiplies, Motoko appears, there is a SF cash register, and "reality" appears; it is a sloppy and confusing Azuma Land, yet real.
What is presented is a scene of the everyday happenings of Azuma Land. There, the abstract and the concrete, concepts and words, reality and unreality are all juxtaposed as symbols manipulated by Hideo Azuma. Let's delve into the structure of the Azuma world by looking at the perverted characters, one of the components of that world.
