PANDORA - Hagiwara Rei
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PANDORA, The Receding Sound of Footsteps is Hagiwara Rei's masterpiece. Rei is a comic artist based in Japan who has self-published their work at Comita through the domestic indie manga scene since 2018. Born in 1993, Rei first become more widely known to English language readers Fall of 2020 through the Glacier Bay Books publication of their sparse and emotionally resonant debut Ripples.
PANDORA expands on this with their second long form work, a lyrical, full color 264 page collection of five stories. Painted in delicate watercolors during 2020/2021 and the initial throes of the covid 19 pandemic, PANDORA simultaneously reflects on current events as well as the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Gorgeous and direct, these stories tenderly reach into your very heart of hearts. Hagiwara Rei masterfully paints the elliptical nature of life and loss in the present time, depicting five scenes of the grief and hope to be found in the modern age.
ISBN: 9781953629265
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"Isolated, searching, Hagiwara's characters grasp at ghosts on these water-soft pages, aching to dissipate into faded hue and lavish smudged ink." - Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal
"Five meditations on grief receding into memory, phantoms of traumas past but not yet forgotten, people struggling to make peace with loss. Hagiwara Rei sets out a sequential tapestry of transcendent watercolor comics which linger in the back of your mind like words you never got to tell someone you loved. Heart-wrenching, intimate. Open Pandora and allow its haunted pages a home in your soul." - Helen Chazan
"Rei Hagiwara’s Ripples is a reflection on grief, emotion, and memory, all in manga form. It’s incredible. Drawn in cold, dark watercolours, the characters and settings in Ripples are only distinguishable negatively, through their absence of shade…Unnamed figures wander through cold bleak environments, speaking of their distant memories and reminiscing on past events. “Where can I return these feelings?” asks one figure. ‘What do I do with this sorrow?’" – Graham Sigurdson, for Broken Pencil
Format: B5, 264 pages, full-color
Editing: emuh ruh
Lettering: Tim Sun
Translation: zhuchka
Availability/Disponibilidade: World/Mundial
