A Drifting Life
| A Drifting Life | |
The English cover of A Drifting Life published by Drawn and Quarterly in April 2009
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劇画漂流 (Gekiga Hyōryū) |
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| Genre | Drama, historical, slice of life story |
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| Written by | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| Published by | Seirinkogeisha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Published | November 20, 2008 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime film | |
| Tatsumi | |
| Directed by | Eric Khoo |
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| Written by | Eric Khoo |
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| Studio | Zhao Wei Films |
| Released | May 17, 2011 |
| Runtime | 98 minutes |
A Drifting Life (劇画漂流 Gekiga Hyōryū?) is an autobiographical Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and chronicles his life from 1945 to 1960 when he began submitting and publishing manga. It was released in Japan as two bound volumes on November 20, 2008. It is licensed in North America by Drawn and Quarterly and was released as a wide-ban volume in April 2009. The work has been adapted into an animated feature film, Tatsumi, directed by Eric Khoo and released in 2011.
Hiroshi Katsumi (Yoshihiro Tatsumi) and his sickly older brother Okimasa (Shōichi Sakurai) work on amateur four-panel manga to submit to magazines that feature reader's work, winning several times. After like-minded children correspond with Hiroshi, they form the Children's Manga Association. This results in a round table discussion for the grade school edition of Mainichi Shimbun with Osamu Tezuka. Hiroshi forms a relationship with Tezuka, who encourages him to try making longer stories. Noboru Ōshiro also gives him feedback and advice for his longer manga through letters. After Okimasa rips one of his works in progress, Hiroshi momentarily quits manga, but is encouraged after a letter from Ōshiro. Ōshiro later asks to redraw and publish Katsumi's Happily Adrift, but does not end up doing so. Ōshiro offers Hiroshi a chance to live at his home "dojo" with other aspiring manga artists, but Hiroshi decides to postpone until he graduates high school. One of the members of Ōshiro's dojo, Yoshiyasu Ōtomo, shows Katsumi's Children's Island to the publisher Tsuru Shobo, who publishes it, though they preemptively reject his next work. Hiroshi decides to attend college instead of apprenticing with Ōshiro, studying for entrance exams, but purposefully doesn't finish the exam. He meets with publisher Kenbunsha, who commissions him to create a detective story similar to Lupin, but they reduce their payment offer so instead he publishes Seven Faces with Hinomaru Bunko, with whom he would go on to publish many works. Okimasa also joins Katsumi at Hinomaru.
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