Bocchi-Shi no Yakata (Big Comics)

[Machine Translation] A "pure" manga by a 76-year-old artist who lives and portrays aging! The setting is an apartment complex built during the high economic growth period. The setting is an apartment complex built during the period of rapid economic growth, where elderly people are living alone with their cats, waiting for the lonely death that will come one day, the "death of being alone". The author, who is 76 years old and lives in the housing complex herself, depicts the overwhelming present as the future for all of us. This is the latest work by Nazuna Saito, who won the Japan Cartoonists Society Award for Excellence and the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Division Collection Award for "To the Evening".

老いを生き、描く76歳作家の「純」漫画！舞台は高度経済成長期に建てられた団地。現在そこにはひとり身の老人たちがいつか訪れる孤独死、「ぼっち死」を待ちながら猫たちと暮らしている。そんな彼女らが明日迎える現実は、どんな物語なのかーーー自らも団地に暮らす76歳の著者が描く、私たち全員の未来にして、圧倒的現在。『夕暮れへ』にて日本漫画家協会賞優秀賞、文化庁メディア芸術祭マンガ部門収集賞を受賞した齋藤なずな、渾身の最新作。