A very nice album to be played

The first page of this "comic" is a message of Jiro Taniguchi. He explains how his interest in European comic strip was born. His dream to edit a database at European them by mingling its Japanese style was heard by Casterman who wanted to try the adventure where the "Western" format while the regulars Jiro Taniguchi expect rather a manga.

Ken-ichi and Sakiko are fatherless. Gravely ill mother has to go to the hospital. Children are entrusted to their grandparents. Ken-ichi spend a lot of time with his friends to play at the castle ruins at the foot of the magic mountain. She's decked out with a legend used to scare children that features an old witch sucker.

Found in the drawings of this album, many similarities with "distant neighborhood." They are more elaborate than those manga albums. There is a history, a thread. The story is cute, very friendly, perfect for a child despite a share of sadness, misfortunes like most albums of Jiro Taniguchi. Adults will find may be a little short story and a bit silly but just leave assess the child in us.

And as always with this author, the designs are very pleasing. There is a sweetness that emerges from these drawings that will soften the smallest as the greatest.