This two-volume manga by Reiko Momochi is an absolute masterpiece. To construct his narrative, the author relied on the testimonies of tsunami survivors and refugees from the region of Fukushima. Result: his story is glaring truth, with phrases shock every two or three pages. She told the daily lives of people facing an invisible and insidious enemy - radiation - unaware how their future will be affected, people as the rest of the country treats plague victims, people shared their love bring to their homes or region and the desire to go as far as possible, people who are trying to take care of the poor and they show an overwhelming solidarity even as the government flees responsibilities and trying to sleep with the beautiful words. Reiko Momochi is also not kind to the Japanese authorities, it openly accused of crime against the population.
Yet despite a more than plombante situation, she manages to infuse great energy to its history, to flower daisies fragile but obstinate in soil contaminated Fukushima. To avoid being annihilated by the precariousness of its existence at an age when she should have a lifetime ahead of her, Fumi, the one that raises the most questions learns to live "here and now" - to savor all small joys that come in range while she still can. During their senior year, all four girls looking his way more than it should be on the edge of his adult life. And even irreparably marked by the disaster, each finally found inner peace. Strong and moving work to put all hands, "Daisy: high school in Fukushima" is an ode to the extraordinary resilience of the human being and the power of solidarity, together with a series of beautiful portraits of young Women face a test which they go out grown.
