While much of Weekly Shonen danceIts current headline matches the style, genre, and story of manga that manga fans have made it clear they like and want to see more of, Deadly Sins of the Ichinose House away from popular trends and fan service to deliver a manga masterpiece of epic proportions. The good thing about Taizen5’s The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins is that it succeeds at something that few mainstream contemporary manga attempt to do, namely telling a bold David Lynch story without the clues of The auditory, visual, and non-native Japanese culture that make Lynch’s work stand out for its compelling oddity.
The story of the Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins is simple on the surface. While on their way to a vacation spot, a family of six got into a car accident. Everyone survived the crash, but all of them strangely developed amnesia. This begins their collective journey to find out who they are and what circumstances led to the accident that brought them all to where they are now. However, they are not completely ignorant. They know their names, from their ID cards and their relationship to each other. They also have access to their home and all the clues to their past lie within.
The Ichinose family’s fatal sin is Lynchian at best
The Lynchian aspects begin as soon as the family arrives home from their hospital stay. While the kitchen and living room may seem like things found in every home, the strange thing is that everyone lives in a private room that only they have access to. Grandparents, parents, and children communicate with each other only in the common areas of the typical home: the hallway, bathroom, living room, and kitchen. However, each person’s private room is their sanctuary, inaccessible to others, and for good reason, as the rooms reflect each member’s unique character. For example, in Tsubasa, the main character’s room, every available space is covered with the word “death”.
The story’s flamboyant character only fades away from there. After 17 chapters of family pairing the reality that they are pathos or sociopaths at the border, the story adds alternate dream realities. The reader must not only be faced with the possibility that the strangeness of the series might just be a recalibration of reality caused by Tsubasa’s dreams, but that his dreams could be influenced and influenced by other characters’ interactions with him. Thus, this can be considered as the author’s frank criticism of contemporary Japanese life.
Like Lynch’s works, Taizen5’s manga deliberately makes its meaning ambiguous and open to the attention of individual readers. While it’s a popular and useful way for film and television, it’s less common and riskier in the comic book industry where fans, some of them quite young, like their content as much as possible. as clearly and openly as possible. But on the other hand, it is because of those risks that Shonen dance‘S Deadly Sins of the Ichinose House A striking and classic title that hits instantly.
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