{"id":17791,"date":"2012-06-30T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2014-05-16T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:14:35","slug":"ill-give-it-my-all-tomorrow-vols-3-4-by-shunju-aono-english-adaptation-by-akemi-wegmuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/ill-give-it-my-all-tomorrow-vols-3-4-by-shunju-aono-english-adaptation-by-akemi-wegmuller\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll Give It My All \u2026 Tomorrow (vols. 3-4) by Shunju Aono, English adaptation by Akemi Wegm\u00fcller"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"I'll<\/a>Nope, tomorrow still hasn\u2019t arrived for midlife slacker Oguro. As volume 3 opens, Oguro continues to struggle with his manga-making, his disappointed father isn\u2019t above smacking him since \u201cjust telling [him] isn\u2019t doing it,\u201d and his teenage daughter has little choice than to detachedly watch the father\/son duels.<\/p>\n

In between having powwows with himself at 15, 17, 22, 32, his current 42-year-old self, and God (!), Oguro works at H Burger, drinks with buddy Miyata, and churns out middling manga. Told by an expensive fortuneteller that changing his name will change his luck, Oguro decides he\u2019s now \u201cPerson Nakamura,\u201d ready to break \u201cthis unconscious tendency toward safety.\u201d His inaugural work as Person, Revamp Yourself: Sayonara Stressful Lifestyle<\/em>, not only reflects his new renegade spirit, but his editor Murakami actually likes the story! Could Oguro\u2019s manga career finally be a possibility?<\/p>\n

Since he dropped out of corporate life to pursue his manga dreams, Oguro himself hasn\u2019t gotten very far, but he\u2019s ironically inspired others to find freedom elsewhere: Miyata announces he\u2019s trading in his white collar for a white apron and open a bakery, and Murakami decides life’s too short not to live an honest life and resigns his editor-ship after two years of holding Oguro\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

So close to being published by volume 4, Oguro is \u2013 not surprisingly \u2013 the last to learn that Murakami has quit. Newbie editor Unami, just 23, offers to take on Oguro when no one else will claim him. At their first working meeting, Unami is blunt: her \u201cI think you need to know when to give up\u201d sends Oguro into a downward spiral so pathetic that he might actually be done with manga.<\/p>\n

In a late-night, drunken reverie in Miyata\u2019s new bakery, the old friends remember their poignant shared youth, and how they\u2019ve always supported each other, even against the biggest bullies. Oguro\u2019s memories of fighting against all odds as a kid, no matter the bloody consequences, recharges his commitment to manga: \u201cI\u2019m sticking with manga to the death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, editor Unami is battling demons of her own. She equates Oguro\u2019s not-yet-successful devotion to her own father\u2019s writing failures, and empathizes with what she believes must be Oguro\u2019s daughter\u2019s anguish over being a failure\u2019s child. But Suzuko is making plans of her own, announcing to a surprised Oguro that she\u2019s off to Finland to study architecture.<\/p>\n

Lives are moving on \u2026 and as Oguro grows older, he hardly seems wiser. Still, his determination to live a life in pictures might yet convince even his staunchest naysayers otherwise.<\/p>\n

Fans of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s Bakuman<\/em><\/a> will definitely recognize many of the processes (obstacles?) of getting manga published, although the experience of reading both series couldn\u2019t be less similar: Bakuman<\/em>\u2019s creators\u2019 artwork is all about rich, glorious detail; Oguro\u2019s maker Shunju Aono doesn’t move much beyond basic line drawing here. Still, Oguro\u2019s simplicity exudes a certain na\u00efve charm, and when even the \u201cbrutally honest\u201d Unami gets pulled back into Oguro\u2019s orbit, hope returns anew that even slackers might someday, somehow give it their all \u2026 even as soon as tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Click here for previous volumes on BookDragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2011 (United States)
\nOREWAMADA HONKIDASHITENAIDAKE \u00a9 Shunju Aono
\nOriginal Japanese edition published by Shogakukan Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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