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“Family overcomes 1952 Tottori Fire tragedy, finding healing and liberation from past constraints.”
A Journal of My Father
父の暦
8.05
743 rank · 8,407 readers · 116 favorites
Seinen
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Family overcomes 1952 Tottori Fire tragedy, finding healing and liberation from past constraints.
A family is devastated by the Great Tottori Fire of 1952, but the family comes to terms with the disaster and breaks free from the bonds holding them back. (Source: Otakuworks)
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Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.21
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.21 · some divergence
The polarity gap
2.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 6.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.17
Running avg · Jan 2016 → Aug 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “A really solid work by Taniguchi, which should be no surprise. JOURNAL OF MY FATHER uses a funeral as the setting for a man's exploration of his father's memory. It's a conventional premise, but...”
- 10 “I have no experience writing, and I do not even know English (so I’ll have to use the Google translator), but in this case I feel compelled to review this title, who do not have English translation...”
- 8 “There's biographical manga that strives to share a story with exaggerated engagement, and the other kind, like this one, fiction that reaches the deepest levels of realism I've ever seen. “A...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 33%
Long · 17%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Apr 1994 – Sep 1994
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M6834 catalog