A Drifting Life
MangaFINISHED50 Chapters
Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of "The Push Man and Other Stories" and "Good-bye" has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, "A Drifting Life" is Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form. Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career.
(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)
(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)
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Chapters List
50 Total
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Chapter 1
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2
Chapter 2
"Manga Obsession"
3
Chapter 3
"The Journalist from Mainichi Shinbun"
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Chapter 4
4
5
Chapter 5
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6
Chapter 6
"Tezuka Vanishes"
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
"Torn Apart"
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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12
Chapter 12
"Debut"
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Chapter 13
"The Sun Sets on Highschool Days"
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Chapter 14
"Desert Traveler"
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
"Summer Training Camp"
27
Chapter 27
"In The Balance"
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Chapter 28
"Escape From Camp"
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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Chapter 31
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Chapter 32
"The Fall of Hinomaru Bunko"
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
"Drunk With Power"
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
"The Boom Continues"
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
"Drawing From Turmoil"
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Chapter 41
"Reaching Towards Gekiga"
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Chapter 42
"The Birth of the Gekiga Workshop"
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Chapter 43
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Chapter 44
"The Vampire Killer Becomes a Vampire"
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Chapter 45
"Passion for Gekiga Dwindles"
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Chapter 46
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Chapter 47
"The Quick Dissolution of the Gekiga Workshop"
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Chapter 48
"Fueled By Anger"
49
Chapter 49
Epilogue
49.1
Chapter 49.1
Appendix
