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青い鳥~わくらば~
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Finished
Sep 20, 2012 to Jun 5, 2014
7.5/10
Average Review Score
100%
Recommend It
2
Reviews Worldwide
Takashi Murakami is capable of convey feelings and emotions through his work at the same level as the great Jiro Taniguchi. After a car accident, a husband stays in vegetative state so the mother has to raise her son solo. In a way that reminds the plot from Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki, Murakami makes the story feels more realistic since he is an artist of manga of manners. The development of the lonely mother and how she find strenght in her loved relatives to keep going and carry on her pain. The art is nothing spectacular but it does not matter since the importantis in the story and what it makes you ponder. Aoi Tori makes us approach sad events like death and ilness. That's the reason this bittersweet manga is recommend for adults or people who have lost relatives.
1-3. Aoi Tori 4-8. Wakuraba (Kaikou)
This manga portrays the evolution of two dependent patients (with physical and mental ailments, respectively) and the daily lives of their caregivers, who are close family members that end up taking care of them on their own. Although this work doesn't have a super long or complex plot development, it handles these hard situations with realism and emotion, and manages to make you feel how difficult it would be to live like that and how strong the caregivers are. It's also worth noting that, while at first glance it seems like a compilation of two (or even three) independent stories, it quickly becomes clear how strongly theyare interconnected (although I still like the first part, Aoi Tori, better).