Boat Life
舟に棲む
“Autobiographical manga follows novelist on whimsical houseboat life along Tokyo's Tonegawa River with eccentric characters.”
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Autobiographical manga follows novelist on whimsical houseboat life along Tokyo's Tonegawa River with eccentric characters.
Boat Life stars novelist Kenta Tsuda, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tadao Tsuge, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo. Based loosely on the artist's own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son. Most of the scenes take place on the Tonegawa River in Chiba, a favorite fishing spot of Tsuge's. Others occur at the artist's home or at Joker, a jeans and apparel shop the Tsuges opened in 1977.
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Boat Life begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-M40634
A Manga Publication
- Format
- 39 × 2
- ch × vol
- Total read
- 5h 12m
- approx
- Published
- Jan 1996 – Jan 2000
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- Manga
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- BS-M40634
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