Tokyo these days Vol 2
In English, 224 pages in black and white, hardcover, 14.61 x 2.29 x 20.96 cm, Viz Media July 2024
Winner of several Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga publisher, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life today.
After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly decides to resign. Although he feels that early retirement is the only way to atone for his failures as an editor, the world of manga is not over with him yet.
On his last day as an editor, Shiozawa catches a train that has traveled hundreds of times to give some final advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is tricked back into a bookstore at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memories and wrapped up in the inescap ties between manga creators, their editors, art and life itself.
