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, his inner dramas and fundamental experiences for his work. I don't know to what extent it is autobiography and where the fictionalized story begins, but you feel that it is present more than in other works by him. In the story Hanaguchi finds a way to overcome her insecurities thanks to the fundamental help of Fukiko who encourages him to do better and he for his part wants to make the girl readher story to in turn encourage her to live despite the disease. Taniguchi's stroke is very realistic that leaves no room for smudges or anything. The scene that entertained me is when Hamaguchi and his friend meet again after a drawing course and with his friend there is also the model who a few seconds before he had portrayed naked, Very embarrassing !!!
I give a 7 to the story and 8 to the drawings