Jar's (hopefully weekly) Review

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Review 3: Sodoma 1985 by Usumaru Furuya

Good afternoon (writing this at 6pm) my fellows! Oh, well: I guess I am still not able to keep doing stuff regularly, so I'm here today with this review, probably like 3 week late idk. (I've been pretty busy with projects, school etc. lately TuT). Anyways, I've read this manga in way too much time bc I randomly stopped reading at some point since I was burnt out, but then I finished it and it was pretty good (sorry for the bad English, I'm pretty tired rn lol)! So, this manga contains different mini-stories, like other works by Furuya, but the best ones were Sodoma 1985 (the main story) and Schoolgirl (I won't bother to check if I'm right but ig that was a manga adaptation of Schoolgirl by Dazai?). I really enjoyed the autobiographic insight in Sodoma and tbh now I totally get where Furuya comes from and how his art was influenced by different media, while Schoolgirl was a pretty good adaptation imo, but I'd have to actually read the original book to talk about that: I totally wanna buy more stuff by Dazai, but I don't usually find much in my area -_- (the only book I could find is No Longer Human. It was great! My Literature prof. gifted a copy of ti to my Latin and Greek teacher lmao). Anyways, back to Sodoma 1985: I found the whole feeling of wanting to escape from your town lowk relatable and it isn't generally that much of a story, but it was still pretty nice to read. In conclusion, I'd say this is a pretty good book, but tbh I recommend reading his other manga before this :).

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