If you are a seasoned reader of manga, it may be that one day your curiosity puts on your path an author named Furuya Minoru. An author who is beginning to be known in the West thanks to the publication of his various mangas, but who in the archipelago is already recognized as a great author, who has inspired people like Inio Asano. Here we have the opportunity to talk about Saltiness, one of the most atypical manga of the author. This work features, as in most of Minoru's manga, a rather marginal character. Marginal in his personality, but also in his way of thinking. The storywill make us wander in the desires of this last one, and will show us a part of the accomplishment of his quest: To overcome the monster that is... the life.

It is a manga rather atypical in the way of approaching crucial subjects of society at the present time. Indeed, the temperament of this character gives a special flavor to this slice of life that has nothing in common with others. The manga is full of very eccentric ideas in accordance with the personality of the main character, and at the same time the author takes advantage of it to slip us some life lessons through metaphors rather surprising and a rather funny setting.

If you want to know more about Furuya Minoru's work, Saltiness is a good introduction. You will find your account with this manga if you like to read different things in the slice of life, and if you have a strong taste for marginality. Apparently he likes this kind of character ... but you'll have to read these other manga to confirm it.

What I think is that it is an author to discover. His ideas of staging are very interesting and his scenarios are often present, at least to make manga pleasant to read and that brings us surprise.