Harukana Machi e manga by Jiro Taniguchi (.CBR)

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Oct 23rd, 2011, 3:51 pm

#893190 by Ojay

Haruka na Machi e / A Distant Neighborhood manga by Jiro Taniguchi
Requirements: CBR Reader, 98 MB.
Overview: Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers that he’s an 8th grader again, but with all of his adult memories intact.

A shockingly well hidden gem!

Rqmc25 on 20-04-2011 03:31 AM

This is a beautiful and heart touching story, despite its lack of popularity, and had I not read a recommendation for it on another website I would have never had the opportunity to come to love this little beauty.
"A Distant Neighborhood" definitely goes on my list of all time favorites!

Harukana Machi e manga

Drama Seinen Slice of Life

Jiro Taniguchi

Big Comic (Shogakukan)

Shogakukan, Castermann, Ponent Mon (1998; 2004)

Manga-Sketchbook

On his way back from a business trip, the protagonist decides on a whim to take a train back to his old hometown. The moment he pays respects to his mother's grave in the transformed town, he is transported back to a summer when he was still in junior high school, only with all his middle-age consciousness, knowledge and abilities intact.
On this journey across time, he understands for the first time the burdens born by his father, and his mother's tears. This is the kind of fantasy manga were made for, executed by an artist of great talent. This is a serious, delicate, and ultimately moving time travel variation.

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"Personally, I found this books were very delight, interesting and wonder... yup, if seen 17 Again the movie you will understand what I meant. 14 years old teenage but with mind, experience, knowledges and memories of 48 years old, wow!!