Format: MANGA
Chapters: 30
Volumes: 1
Status: Finished
Published from: Mar 1, 2004
Until: Mar 1, 2005
Source: Original
Average score: 70%
Mean score: 73%
Popularity: 1,717
Favorites: 30
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Slice of Life
Romaji: Shissou Nikki
English: Disappearance Diary
Native: 失踪日記
Synonyms: The Great Escape of the Comic Book Writer Dziennik z zaginięcia Il diario della mia scomparsa Journal d'une disparition Дневник моих исчезновений Diario de una desaparición

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Disappearance Diary

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In 1989, comic artist Hideo Azuma succumbs to the pressures of deadlines and tries (unsuccessfully) to hang himself using the slope of a mountain. He leaves his family, wandering as a dumpster bum looking for scraps of food, cigarette butts or discarded alcohol. After several months he is arrested as a vagrant and returned to his home. He then repeats the cycle in 1992 this time becoming a gas pipe fitter in another town. Later, in 1998, his alcohol dependence is so bad he is forced into rehab. This book is his expression of those three periods of his life told, not in a deep or depressed way but, as befits his nature, in a buoyant and cheerful cartoon art.

(Source: Ponent Mon)