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A review by autumn_plum
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio
Loved it down to the last panel! If not for the story than for the sheer prettiness of Hagio's work. My favourites were "Hanshin: Half-God," "The Willow Tree," and "Iguana Girl." Every time I glimpse this book on my shelf I find myself reading each story again and again and believe me you, they don't ever seem to lose their emotional poignancy or dimension.
In fact, it's one of the few things I've ever read that actually manages to draw me back AND STILL manages to surprise me when I come away from each story with an understanding that has only continued to alter over the years. In short, I recommend it to anyone on the basis that there are stories in this anthology that are barely twenty pages with (at times) minimal dialogue, and yet they always manage to reduce indifferent little me (who barely blinked while watching AND reading about the Red Wedding in ASOIAF) into a blubbery fangirl with more sap than a maple forest in
February.
....Anyway, do your feels a favour and read it and weep, while knowing that somewhere out there in the world, i am probably doing the exact same thing looking like this.
In fact, it's one of the few things I've ever read that actually manages to draw me back AND STILL manages to surprise me when I come away from each story with an understanding that has only continued to alter over the years. In short, I recommend it to anyone on the basis that there are stories in this anthology that are barely twenty pages with (at times) minimal dialogue, and yet they always manage to reduce indifferent little me (who barely blinked while watching AND reading about the Red Wedding in ASOIAF) into a blubbery fangirl with more sap than a maple forest in
February.
....Anyway, do your feels a favour and read it and weep, while knowing that somewhere out there in the world, i am probably doing the exact same thing looking like this.