Burororororo

When we speak of “manga,” what is usually taken for granted is the continuity between one panel and the next, and between one page and the next, as well as the format of the book, in which pages are turned from right to left (although sometimes the direction is reversed).

Could we set all of that aside for a moment, bend the continuity between panels and between pages, and experiment with a different experience of time somewhere between continuity and discontinuity? That was the thought behind this work. This way of making things seems to have become a method that TARKY Toshima continued to use afterward, though whether it can properly be called a method is another question.

To rethink manga not as something contained within the time enclosed by a book-like format, but as something in which time unfolds freely in space. To put it that way sounds far too pretentious. The actual content consists of stupid texts and stupid manga, or panels, built around the motif of rotation. Since rotation is the motif, the text is placed at the center, with the individual panels arranged around it. That's all there is to it.