There's biographical manga that strives to share a story with exaggerated engagement, and the other kind, like this one, fiction that reaches the deepest levels of realism I've ever seen. “A Journal Of My Father”. The title itself sent that kind of sensation through my brain. The kind of feeling that this isn't something simple to digest. A personal story, obviously relating to the past, to family, to whom a father was for a son. The only thing left for one to do is read it, and endure the reality of a person who could never stop on its tracks and understand the man whodid everything for them.

The manga tells the story of a family man who hasn't gone to his hometown in years, and years. His father died while he was absent, leaving a bitter taste in his mouth. Not much of a feeling. Our main character wasn't connected to him, and his resentment never allowed him to bond, but, why?

Obviously, this is the story of finding that sweetness in the bitterness of the past. The views we had as kids should never shape what happened with the understanding of being an adult. As our MC explores what actually happened, and who his father was, for so many people. It goes on to truly explore a guilt like none other. It isn't the fictional kind of extreme guilt, but one that we're probably one step away of being a part off.

“There are children, not thinking of their parents, but there's no parent that doesn't think of their children”. The story goes where you might think, but it doesn't try to change those ideas, and truly walks the mile without trying to manipulate you into feeling more. It doesn't fabricate scenes. The manga will never use a scene, other than to tell you the truth.

8/10. I'll call my parents, and so should you.