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Sayonara mo Iwazuni
UENO Kentaro
Sayonara mo Iwazuni (Without saying goodbye). It was a modest but happy life… till that day came. During the one year after the sudden bereavement of his wife, the manga artist UENO Kentaro would, together with his only daughter, repeatedly look back at the last days with their beloved one full of touching memories. The extraordinary comedy manga artist opens a new frontier by delicately depicting a story using all possible expressive skills with full devotion This is a documentary comic of love and pathos, heartache and hope.
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UENO Kentaro
Born in Tokyo, 1963. Manga artist who uses a wide range of techniques to draw nonsense gags with "economically inefficient" effort. Yoru wa sen no me wo motsu has been serialized in Monthly Comic Beam (KADOKAWA) since 1998.