Familiar Strangers (Manga)
Familiar Strangers ( Jap. 遥かな町へ , Haruka na Machi e , dt. "In the remote city") is a 1998 published manga from Jiro Taniguchi .
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The main character Hiroshi Nakahara ends up by chance on a trip to his native Kurayoshi , which he has not visited for a long time. He visits the cemetery, falls into a trance at his mother's grave, from which he wakes up as a 14-year-old boy. As a second chance, he lives his life again as a teenager, but with the experience and knowledge of a grown man. It becomes an important goal for him to find out why his father suddenly and without explanation left the apparently happy family.
Publications
The manga appeared in Japanese in 1998 in Big Comic magazine published by Shogakukan ; in German, however, only published in 2008 by Carlsen Verlag . The manga served as a template for the 2010 film Confidante Strangers by director Sam Garbarski .
Reviews
“ 'Familiar Strangers' is one of the best that international comic literature currently has to offer. It is only logical that this book is now also recognized by us. Taniguchi will help correct our image of the manga as a teen mania. Japan is one of the leading comic book nations and this is the proof. "
"Because, in the end,« Familiar Strangers », as in other stories by Taniguchi, is about the search for happiness, which he depicts in a touching and exhilarating mixture of humanism, melancholy, slight skepticism, fine humor and lots of poetry."
Awards
For the manga, Taniguchi received the 1998 award for excellence in the Manga category at the Japan Media Arts Festival and in 2003 the award for the best scenario at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême . In 2008, the German Max-und-Moritz-Preis followed and Comic.de voted familiar strangers 2007 as comic of the year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the publisher's website Carlsen.de , accessed on April 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b from the laudation for the comic of the year 2007 award ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at comic.de by Eckart Sackmann, accessed on April 23, 2012.
- ^ Review by Christian Gasser in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 31, 2007 , accessed on April 23, 2012 (NZZ online).
