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Description
Biographical Note:
Furuya debuted as a manga artist in an avant-garde comics magazine called
Garo in 1994. Since then, his manga have appeared in
Young Sunday and other major weekly magazines. His work has also been published in English in VIZ's PULP magazine and
Secret Comics Japan. VIZ published his book
Short Cuts in 2003.
Marc Notes:
First published in Japan in 2008 by Shuseisha Inc., Tokyo--P. facing t.p.;Parental advisory ... contains brief nudity and mild language--P. facing t.p.;Reads from right to left.;After surviving a tragic accident that claimed his friend Chiaki's life, Hikari Hamura learns he must help the people around him to continue living.;Rated T+ for older teen.;Translated from the Japanese.
Publisher Marketing: Sometimes a picture can tell more than a thousand words.
Hikari "Picasso" Hamura, a grouchy teenager with a talent for drawing, dies in a freak accident. The gods decide to revive him, but only on the condition that he use his artistic gift for the good of humanity. Picasso discovers that sketching a person's aura yields a surreal portrait of their psyche. Stranger still, Picasso can dive into these dreamscapes and help people by exploring their deepest emotions, memories and perceptions.
Hikari Hamura, nicknamed Picasso because of his natural artistic abilities, survived a horrible accident, but his friend Chiaki wasn't so lucky. Suddenly, Chiaki appears in front of him and tells him in order to keep living he must help the people around him. Can Hikari save people with his sketchbook and a 2B pencil?
