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“After 500-year hibernation, Tarou Maizuru loses everything and journeys home to Japan seeking new purpose.”
Longing for Home
望郷太郎
6.83
12,432 rank · 1,083 readers · 4 favorites
Seinen
Adventure
Drama
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
After 500-year hibernation, Tarou Maizuru loses everything and journeys home to Japan seeking new purpose.
The advent of a great cold wave, devastating damage, and a world reset. After awakening from a 500-year-old artificial hibernation, Tarou Maizuru realizes that he has lost everything he ever had, including his beloved family and his fortune. Crawling back from the depths of despair in pursuit of an ideal life and purpose, he leaves the distant land he is in, with his sights set on his homeland, Japan. (Source: Kodansha USA)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 5
σ 2.16
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.16 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.5 pts
Recommenders 9.5 · others 5.0
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Jan 2024 → May 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “This manga was very good and pretty unique visually, with great pacing and character depth, I found the brutal world appealing and appalling times too (it reminds me a little of the World from fire...”
- 10 “This series is amazing. If you like the post-apocalyptic word of I am a Hero, the political intrigue of Sanctuary, or the existential ideas of AoT of Promised Neverland, this is for you. Note that...”
- 5 “The series takes the trope of a man out of time into a setting that feels very grounded. Even harder topics like cannibalism is never treated as shock value, but rather with humility. It also...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Sep 2019 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M52432 catalog