{"id":17956,"date":"2018-02-15T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2018-02-12T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:06:09","slug":"tramps-like-us-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2018\/02\/15\/tramps-like-us-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tramps Like Us volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Yayoi Ogawa<\/strong> (Tokyopop)
\nISBN: 978-1-595321-39-8<\/p>\n

Returning to TV screens in 2017 – for the second adaptation since the manga originally debuted – this intriguing, introspective love story offers a beguiling and surprisingly tasteful exploration of modern relationships at the margins of societal norms.<\/p>\n

Eventually wracking-up 14 collected volumes, the series originated from stand-alone story ‘Pet’<\/em> published in the June 2000 issue of Kiss Carnival<\/strong>. It quickly reappeared in expanded form in Kiss<\/strong> as ‘Kimi wa Pet’<\/em>: running to 82 chapters between December 2000 and October 2005.<\/p>\n

The serial was a global comics hit, translated into many languages and spawning a Japanese live action TV drama series airing in 2003 and a South Korean movie in 2011 plus – as previously mentioned – a new television iteration.<\/p>\n

Sumire Iwaya<\/em> is a thoroughly modern woman, with a good job, promising prospects and all her priorities properly sorted. But like so many career women – especially in Japan – the romantic side of her life is problematic.<\/p>\n

Comfortably situated but still recovering from a messy affair with the boss’s son, she is constantly evaluating her admittedly high relationship standards. What this actually means is that most of the time now she’s tired, stressed and terribly, terribly lonely.<\/p>\n

For no reason she can explain then, when she one day discovers a beautiful young man inhabiting a dumpster, Sumire grudgingly gives him shelter in her home. The full-grown waif appears to be an utter innocent: vital, energetic and totally without guile – or manners\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Fed up with her life and with the kind of men she seems to attract, the salary woman enters into a bizarre pact with the vagrant. Naming him Momo<\/em> – after a dog she had as a child – Sumire adopts him as her secret pet.<\/p>\n

She will feed, bathe and pamper him in return for companionship, warmth and the kind of unconditional love only an animal can provide.<\/p>\n

But what is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unconditional\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? As her life proceeds, with friends, career and even a new boyfriend all piling their respective pressures on, her secret pet increasingly becomes her only haven of contentment. But Momo is not a dumb animal. He has his own life no matter how ardently he might seek to deny it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n

And in this classic When Harry Met Sally<\/strong> dilemma the couple are being compelled by their own incessantly and increasingly inharmonious natures to reassess their relationship and thereby endanger the only emotional refuge each can retreat to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Sharp, charming and strikingly drawn, this out-of-print saga is long-overdue for revival: a proper grown-up comics story that manages to be mature and sophisticated whilst still being decorous.
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2000, 2004 Yayoi Ogawa. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Yayoi Ogawa (Tokyopop) ISBN: 978-1-595321-39-8 Returning to TV screens in 2017 – for the second adaptation since the manga originally debuted – this intriguing, introspective love story offers a beguiling and surprisingly tasteful exploration of modern relationships at the margins of societal norms. Eventually wracking-up 14 collected volumes, the series originated from stand-alone story … <\/p>\n

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