[Preview] The owner's first manga, "Bomb Dad: Making a Place for Anger"
HIRATADAI4 days writing → bookbinding. DIY BOOKS owner publishes a preview of his first manga. First 13 pages. Purchase here.
Risograph 2-color print / A5 / 36p
The title is "Bakudan Papa: Creating a Place for Anger."
It's about the importance of having a place for anger and expression.
Our generation, born between April 1982 and March 1983, was once called the "17-year-olds who snap."
Even though I'm past 42, I still find myself getting irritated and angry.
During counseling, my therapist taught me to be aware of the boundary between myself and others. If a problem arises, it's okay to draw that boundary and make a note of it.
For example, you might go out of your way to help someone, but their reaction is just "hmm," and you get angry. However, you can't control other people's reactions. The idea was to reflect on that premise.
Trying to control others' reactions can sometimes be caused by overprotective parents.
What I remembered then was that this Venn diagram is similar to the "definition of literature" I learned in college.
My lingering regret is that I was living near Akihabara at the time and was at the scene 15 minutes prior, so I might have crossed paths with the perpetrator of that mass stabbing.
We were from the same region in Tohoku and the same generation. When the perpetrator was little, his mother would make him write essays, and if they weren't good enough, he would be locked outside in the cold as a form of "censorship."
In Yumie Yamada's "Adult Essay Class," based on comments by Hikari Ota of Bakushō Mondai, she suggests that the "17-year-old" juvenile offenders who snap might be misinterpreting self-expression.
The perpetrator of the Akihabara incident had experiences like playing a character on online forums, having difficulty communicating, and experiencing misunderstandings at work.
Thinking about it in various ways, I came to realize that the root cause might be the lack of a proper place for anger and expression.
Perhaps, at the very root of it, lies the memory of war from my father's and grandfather's generations, "a battlefield always in the heart."
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