Offshore Lightning

Offshore Lightning collects Saito s early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas. Stories like Buy Dog Food and Go Home and Offshore Lightning focus on middle-aged men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and lost loves. By contrast, In Captivity follows three siblings visiting their ailing mother who is succumbing to dementia and resentful at her loss of agency. The siblings take a drive as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with attempting to honor this woman at the end of her life. Solitary Death Building documents an eccentric cast of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing complex where they all live. 1) Yuugure e 2) Oki no Inazuma 3) Inko no Kami 4) Dog Food o Katte Oie ni Kaerou 5) Count Down 6) Tsubuen no Fune 7) Ichou 8) Skirt no Naka 9) Toraware no Hito 10) Botchi Shi no Tate