Pink

by

256 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2013 by Vertical, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-939130-12-9
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OCLC Number:
839389337

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5 stars (1 review)

Yumiko moonlights as a call girl because her day job doesn't pay enough to feed her pet Croc. Haru an aspiring writer who has nothing to say, sleeps with a woman his mother's age not just for the money but to work on his "powers of observation". So when Yumi's step-mom turns out to be Haru's sugar-mommy, it is time for shenanigans. A little bit of drinking, a little bit of blackmail and a visit with Croc is enough to change lives and maybe add some color to a comfortable but bland life.

Daddy kept Keiko's mom as a pet; she keeps Haru as a pet; I keep Croc as a pet...Is Yumiko someone else's pet?? Is she willing to let someone care for her like that?

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reviewed Pink by Kyoko Okazaki

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5 stars

A very fun, poetic, irreverent, 18+, random and decidedly femanine manga! Being decidedly not Japanese I didn't get everything. But I still found myself laughing a lot.

Despite the seeming chaos, it ends up being a very well balanced story. Everything is saying something. Everything feeds into everything else. Okazaki pushes very real character's to their extremes. Modern life in all its hilarious obsurdities.

It's very obvious to me why this book is a classic. I will definitly be tracking down every Okazaki book I can get my hands on! I found this story very creatively inspiring.

Subjects

  • Comics & graphic novels, manga, general