James and will continue reading Shunju Aono’s slice of life manga, reflecting on their own attitudes around women and their fathers. At the end of the episode, they review the conclusion to the Evangelion Rebuild movies ‘Evangelion 3.0 +1.0: Thrice Upon a Time’. Beware of spoilers and sensitive subject matter! Skip the manga’s plot synopsis @ 5:53
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080: I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow vol. 2
Chapters: 5 to 10 ‘Miracle’ and ‘Master’
with Bonus Chapters ‘Back Then’ parts 1 and 2
By Shunju Aono
Translation by Akemi Wegmuller
Lettering by Steven Rhyse
42-year-old Shizuo Oguro surmises that to become a successful manga he must make a cry from the heart; or as the French say a ‘Cri De Coeur’ and less of materialistic desire in his work. A manga that only he could draw. So, he makes an autobiography. And he gets rejected. He is also rejected again, when he makes a pass at a female editor.
Shizuo makes himself feel better by drinking with his long-time friend Miyata, but Miyata will not let Shizuo stay at his place following a disagreement with his father, deeming it inappropriate for two middle aged friends living together. Instead, the 26-year-old Shuichi Ichinosawa is the one who tolerates Shizuo as a house buddy.
Meanwhile, Ichinosawa dyes his hair, possibly due to peer pressure from his workplace peers. He witnesses one of his work colleagues bully the new guy, he punches the bully in the face then loses his job and speaks to Shizuo’s dad who tells him that to fail is normal, and it is what everyone does. Because at the age of 45, Shizuo’s dad set up an Izakaya and seemingly he was able to only make ends meet with it until it went bust after 20 years. Throughout these years Shizuo’s dad would have been a widow, Shizuo was only 15 when she, Sakiko Oguro passed.
Later that night, the mention of Shizuo’s mother is enough to make him return home to his dad.
In the bonus chapters, we see that Ichinosawa is paid a visit by his sister Yukako and we learn that the two of them have lost a father to suicide as teenagers.
Topics:
- Things we liked (kicked out of home humour)
- Things we did not like (Hard to tell who is speaking due to the layout of speech bubbles)
- Real Talk (Women rejecting creepy men and father troubles)
- Shizuo’s list of shirts as they appear in order of this volume:
Homerun, Curse, Hawaii, Hijiki (edible seaweed), Rejected, Oguro Productions, 4649, 42, Ekke (possibly slang for daydreamer), Paris, Zico (Brazillian football coach), Pele (Brazillian footballer)
Other references:
Izakaya, a bar or tavern. Most common are the types where a red lantern is outside.
Yakitori Shiro, Yakitori is grilled chicken, the “Shiro”, could stand for Shizuo’s dad’s name, as the food Shiro is really Ethiopian cuisine and not traditionally Japanese.
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