The tragic trajectory of Yakumo’s flashback follow its natural arc in the third volume of Descending Stories as he and adopted brother Sukeroku move beyond their long apprenticeship to define themselves not just as shin’uchi – rakugo performers in their own rights – but as …Read more »
Read Austin’s review of the manga’s first volume here! While the second volume of Haruko Kumota’s Descending Stories manga delves more deeply into Yakumo’s tragic past and so into more sensitive psychological territory than the first volume did, it still retains the coarse emotional framework that …Read more »
I anticipated the first volume of Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju with a mixture of joy and dread. Nick Creamer, one of my favorite contemporary critics, had recommended the anime adaptation’s first season with great enthusiasm, but not without reservation. “The larger than life... …Read more »
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