Tokyo Day 1

People who make comics turn their lives into comics.

Taiyo Matsumoto’s latest work! !

That day, manga editor Shiozawa-san decided to leave the publishing house where he had worked for thirty years. He knows the language of birds and lives alone with Fumintori in Tokyo. Can he really make up his mind to break up with the manga he has loved all his life?

★"Only when I draw comics can I truly be alive."

"Tokyo Days" is a new serial work that Taiyo Matsumoto has been preparing for two years after "Cats in the Louvre" in 2017. Different from previous works, "Tokyo Days" starts from the perspective of a fifty-year-old retired comics editor with a shaved head and a well-organized work. It uses the seemingly ordinary Tokyo life as the background, and uses the "comics" itself as the axis. Heart, outlines the stories and moods of the people surrounding the comic scene, and then cuts into the subtleties of their "daily" emotions.

The story begins when senior editor Shiozawa, who is over fifty and has been quietly working in the comics industry for thirty years, suddenly leaves the company. After resigning, readers will follow Shiozawa as he visits his old friends step by step - admonishing a senior cartoonist whose fame has declined steadily for a while, and being entrusted by Lin, a junior editor with serious personality and unique views, to solve the problem between her and the difficult cartoonist Aoki. He also participated in the funeral of the cartoonist Tachibana who was in charge when he first entered the industry, and visited her studio for the last time, and saw Tachibana’s soul appear and speak to him...

Through the step-by-step journey, readers slowly understand the reasons why Shiozawa was determined to leave his job and unable to put down comics. Following his footsteps, readers gradually face the unshakable love and original intention of comics. At the same time, you can also feel the entanglement between people connected by comics, as well as the precious emotional connection.