Munou no Hito

Synopsis

Unable to find a proper job, former manga artist Sukezou Sukegawa has been reduced to running a doomed business venture of his own design: selling stones on the very riverside from where he collects them. Refusing to sacrifice his artistic integrity and re-enter the manga industry, and with numerous failed schemes under his belt, Sukezou firmly entrenches himself into a position of destitution. Despite having a family to care for—including his breadwinner wife, whose opinion of him is ever-souring—he stubbornly refuses to abandon his stone trade. With one misadventure after another, Sukezou attempts to make a profit in a profitless situation, firmly believing that success is simply a stone waiting to be turned. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Munou no Hito was published in English as The Man Without Talent by New York Review Comics on January 28, 2020. It was translated by comic historian Ryan Holmberg, who also contributed an essay about author Yoshiharu Tsuge to the volume. It was also released in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora Veneta on October 21, 2019. The manga was adapted into a live-action film that premiered in Japan on November 2, 1991. It was also adapted into a TV drama that was broadcast from July 27, 1998, to August 3, 1998.

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