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“1966 Kyoto textile worker Hamaguchi becomes manga artist in Tokyo after owner's daughter disrupts his peaceful life.”
A Zoo in Winter
冬の動物園
7.48
3,395 rank · 2,526 readers · 16 favorites
Seinen
Drama
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
1966 Kyoto textile worker Hamaguchi becomes manga artist in Tokyo after owner's daughter disrupts his peaceful life.
It is the year 1966. Hamaguchi, a young man comes to Kyoto, where he finds work in a small textile company.In his free time, he goes to the local Zoo to draw animals. His peaceful life is one day disturbed by the company owner's daughter. Because of that, when his friend tells him of a certain job offer in Tokyo, Hamaguchi decides to go at once. In the capital he gets to learn the way of a manga artist.
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7.5
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 0.50
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “The story of this young designer who after various vicissitudes finds himself working as an assistant to a successful mangaka, in this story Taniguchi puts himself and what brought him to success,...”
- 8 ““A Zoo in Winter” is a pleasant find for an evening in which you want to relax, take a light read and plunge into the atmosphere of your newfound life, where there is hard but beloved work and...”
- 7 “This is one of Jiro Taniguchi's later works and being that, I was disappointed by how un-creative it was. It carries over cheesy tropes and dialogue from ages past which shouldn't be an excuse just...”
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Short · 25%
Medium · 50%
Long · 25%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 7 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 56m approx
- Published Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9788 catalog