Takehiko Inoue's eyes were bloodshot when he sat down for an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun, since the famous mangaka had just come out of a room where he had been working day and night to meet a deadline on his series Vagabond, which has been running in the manga magazine Morning (Kodansha Ltd.) since 1998.
The subject of the interview was his manga Real, which has been serialized in the young men's manga weekly Shukan Young Jump (Shueisha Inc.) since 1999. It comes out in a book format only once a year, with the eighth volume only recently published.
The subject of the interview was his manga Real, which has been serialized in the young men's manga weekly Shukan Young Jump (Shueisha Inc.) since 1999. It comes out in a book format only once a year, with the eighth volume only recently published.
Real breaks away from conventional portrayals of the disabled as innocent people who are weak in every way. A wheelchair basketball player punches out a teammate in one scene, and a high school student partially paralyzed in an accident uses abusive language in his hospital bed in another. Full text
