What a Wonderful World!
Being his first series, What a Wonderful World remains Asano's most representative and successful work to date. Composed of vignettes from the daily lives of a group of people inhabiting an ordinary neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo, the series is actually a comment about modern life itself and how we can survive in it despite all its rigors.
Amusing, melancholic, funny, strange, thought-provoking, Asano effortlessly shifts from one mood to another, creating stories and characters that are profoundly human and thus always involving. It's a shame that not everyone will find the subjects the author describes equally appealing since some of them are distinctly Japanese. But overall, it's a great collection that any discerning manga reader should check out.
Official English
Manga
Seinen
2002
📗 Completed
📗 Completed
Volume 2, Chapter 19
Asano Inio
Asano Inio
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Slice of Life, Tragedy, Crime, Philosophical, Thriller
School Life, Supernatural, Animals, Demons, Delinquents, Monsters, Office Workers, Police, Mafia
Shogakukan