Billed as the biography of famed Japanese manga artist Yohihiro Tatsumi, the movie instead is an animated retelling of his works, book-ended with parts of the artist’s life. While this may seem an interesting enough concept, all it does is reproduce the books as they are on-screen (with voice-overs). While there may be a small segment of the audience that does not prefer reading the books instead of watching them on-screen, the movie is a gross injustice to the artist’s works. The stories are interesting enough, but do little to explain why Tatsumi is a celebrated artist. Therefore, on a fundamental level, the movie fails.
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