Theediscerning's Reviews > Hibakusha

Read in English courtesy of Europe Comics and Netgalley.

Hmmm… A bloke getting sucked off by a strange, beautiful hitch-hiker, Nazis… This would seem to be right up my street. But then (certainly if you don't read the blurb first) the book meanders onto a very different path, and a quite unexpected one. Only finally, after some pretentiousness unfortunately, does it yield its real substance. Which would be fine in itself, but the proceedings were so varied, almost schizophrenic, that I don't think this works. It's an elegiac love story with more death than the average, a telling look at humanity with a lot else besides, and a nice look at a singular romance, but through a quite pompous lens. Visually it's fine, but I think the story needed to grip on to what it wanted to be about a fair bit more firmly. Two and a half stars.