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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   Hi lurkers and posters,   
      
   	It "Just So Happens" is not a manga.  It is by Fumio Obata, a   
   man living and working in the UK.   
   	The story is about a girl in a similar situation who returns   
   to Japan to help bury her father.  Along the way she reminisces about   
   a previous trip and other matters, we get to meet some interesting   
   people including her divorced intellectual mother.   
   	The book is left to right and the art is not generally like   
   manga art,  Fumio Obata captures the variety of London and the   
   uniformity of Tokyo in the art as well as the rigidity of tradition   
   and family structure in Japan. The protagonist is torn between two   
   cultures but intends to wed a UK man.   
   	We do not get to meet him but he is supportive of her while   
   the family and the culture are trying to mold her to be a 'nadeshiko'   
   obedient to the old women and to her male relatives which is shown   
   cleverly.   
      
   	Seems to be published by Abrams ComicArts of NYC at $19.95   
   	Very Good Graphic Novel which I found yesterday at the SFPL Main.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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