>>2725I'm not a fan of gekiga but i did like a few works (A Drifting Life, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, The Push Man and Other Stories and Akairo Elegy).
To me there's a feeling that they are edgy just to be edgy, maybe it's not true but i still feel it when reading gekiga manga.
I'm surprised to see many Tezuka manga tagged as gekiga in manga-updates, it's funny because i did not enjoy them but for other reasons and never thought they as gekiga. Maybe they are not and it is a misstag?
Oh, and there are many official translations that mirror the pages, making them left-to-right.
>>2743I think the author wanted to convey a lot more than the pages had space for, so he skipped a lot details, focused on emotions and made each action exagerated and dramatic. Also it is about a very specific moment of Japan and much of it is lost on us who don't know what it was like, and probably many newer japanese people too.
