His precise lines and almost flat geometric rendering makes everything seem robotic. Oddly, the exciting also becomes kind of banal.Īs I read Travel, I found my self more attracted to his depictions of the most ordinary events than to his wondrously odd buildings, landscapes, and characters. A fellow train passenger pulling a book from his jacket offers as much menace and tension as a gunfight. Sitting down requires speedlines, giving it the intensity of a fight in a more conventional manga. Of course, this is a Yokoyama manga, so these banal events happen in a world filled with outlandish looking characters, weird buildings, inorganic landscapes, and lots of speedlines. That’s probably a better description of the story. Or we could say: Three man buy tickets, get on a train, find a seat, look out the window, smoke cigarettes, get off the train, and walk to the ocean.
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