Yoshiharu Tsuge shows why he's a powerhouse when it comes to gekiga and serious storytelling. Munou no Hito is a sincere and delightful portray of life in its simplest form, creating with its down to earth narrative an atmosphere that is miserable as much as its hopeful, showing a perspective to being in a bad situation that diverts from what is usually the norm; while other media tend to dwell in the sadness and the depressive nature of failure, the mangaka thrives in the mundane, depicting with earnestness and sympathy flawed personalities that don’t have a “good” life per say. Perhaps a meta biography ofsorts, that bridges the made up and the real with similarities between the protagonists and the author’s life. A manga that should be in the canon of the greats, with Akira and many other, but it’s nature might be too disconnected from what usually makes something be considered a masterpiece, ironically fitting what it so well depicts.