Those who read this blog a little know my attachment to something almost primal Japanese and especially the Geste samurai rising sun. Still I had hitherto never spoken here Taiyou Matsumoto's works, however I still really customer since I read a few years ago Amer Concrete. The simple addition of the talent of Matsumoto with the spirit of medieval Japan could only make me shudder and especially let me hope for a great work. Between you and me and not necessarily postpone the deadline, it is perfectly appropriate. Matsumoto is a great mangaka in the sense that a subject is offered his pen, he forced his own aims and visions of writing. On the first still barren and difficult works of Matsumoto does not open at first reading, they require a bit of concentration but also to accept breaks in form and tone in the psychology of the characters. The design is vivid, immediate, and it suddenly feels in his imperfections. Nothing chiadé in Matsumoto, the "Bamboo Samurai" does not lie to this rule. A pencil, a pen that draws the impulse but the result still vivid, enigmatic in its rendering.
The pitch of the "Bamboo Samurai" could be one of ten manga taking the theme of Medieval Japan: A samurai swordsman exception, comes into town (here Edo) to try to escape his past and redeem himself a pipe. But then, Matsumoto is not just any manga, his swashbuckler is dreamy (think here at Number Five and the character of Matriochka that managed to bend the world to his dreams to the point of not being able to distinguish between the real and his double dream, White did the same in "bitter concrete" also, in short, is a recurrence in his work), surrounded himself with children, fled the battle by not considering as a last resort (there where all the manga seized these situations for spinning on dozens of pages, Matsumoto seized them in two or three boxes of pure action) and now Volume 2 ends, seems influenced and stalked by a dark omniscient threat at any moment of the capsize. In short, the character is complex and dense, thickened while the world around him becomes more concrete. It is the strength of the mangaka, drice us to understand the universe in place, but we never sparing a frank way, the Way of the Samurai is also a complex of codes and prohibitions, Matsumoto makes own.
The attentive reader will have noticed the addition of another author that Matsumoto on this manga. This is a first which I know nothing of actual fertility as I read through the pages of "Bamboo Samurai" I know this looks like one of Matsumoto, Issei Eiffuku seems to be behind the project, may is perhaps this that gives him the impetus to each of the stories that coposent volumes (already 7 in Japan and an award at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007). In short, a word to cite the undeniable influence of Usagi Yojimbo, Seno seeming literally extend the wanderings of the rabbit Ronon complex developed by Sakai. Become a great reading anyway.
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