"Good comes from God, evil comes from ourselves. " This is a sentence that can easily be quoted when talking about Hideki Arai's The World Is Mine. This work is absolutely nothing ordinary, and will necessarily provoke in the reader a before and after, in my opinion. It is a deeply political story, where two men will seek to test the wrath of God in a Japan fractured by its leaders. With this work, we go through all the feelings. Indeed, the work is of unprecedented violence. Whether it is in his crazy staging or in his drawings (beware! His style is quite atypical!) with his elaborate cut-outs, Hideki Araiconstantly shakes us in his universe. The scenes of rape and murder are recurrent, and we are constantly confronted with their fatality. All this is obviously not gratuitous, each of these scenes always serving the purpose of the author, who wanted to be very committed to this. The protagonists are very well-written anti-heroes, each of them having a very complex personality, difficult to understand in the first volumes, but which as the story unfolds and the objectives accomplished are revealed, all this to give us the keys to understanding the story.
Much more, each character introduces to the story to a physical or moral character trait that describes him, which enriches the story ...
Damn, hard to go further without spoiler.
You have to know that if you enter the world of Hideki Arai, you will come out of it changed forever.
I think "The World Is Mine" is a life changing work, and it is good to read it at least once.