I am a Japanese comic starting my career in 2023 while teaching Japanese. Before 2023, I finished writing the book Go To Exist. I decided to publish the book by myself this year.
The book is a contemporary literary fiction, that introduces a protagonist, Atsuya's history, and it also touches on my own. Atsuya weaves in and out of his own life story, until the moment in his youth when conflicts with his father-a physician-and struggles and doubts in university studies cause him to collapse inward on himself with severe chronic pain. Through shifting relations with neighbours, random meetings with a man at a swimming pool, teachers, classmates, and his new friends, Atsuya traces his efforts toward making sense of a world that he finds increasingly impossible to define.
I will write non-fiction-based stories. They look various, some would be about my standup comedy journey all over the world and in Japan. Journey to find shaman. But the stories will always be about justice, existence, and politics, nationalism, monopolistic entertainment.
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Go To Exist is a contemporary literary fiction that explores isolation, friendship, and the struggle to recon...