Stigma (Kazuya Minekura)

Kazuya Minekura achieved fame with a work that has achieved extraordinary success all over the world: Saiyuki. Divided into several series (Gensomaden Saiyuki, Saiyuki Relod and Saiyuki Gaiden), the comic story is inspired by a great classic of Chinese literature by Wu Cheng'en (known in Italy with the title Journey to the West or Lo Scimmiotto) and It has been transposed into an animated series, broadcast several times in Italy by the MTV broadcaster and recently supplemented by an already very successful following in Japan. Of the mysterious author, whose pseudonym is known but her true identity is kept secret, finally arrives in Italy a work that, in the extraordinary Japanese universe of manga, possesses the rare and prestigious characteristic of having been conceived and made entirely coloured. The protagonist is a man without a name, who wanders through a silent and gray world after having awakened in a place he does not know, with a bag full of money but without memory. This premise is sufficient to let us perceive the critical vein of Minekura Sensei: the Teacher places her protagonist on the earth torn apart by an atomic catastrophe, which has left him nothing but useless money, so much loneliness and not even a crumb of conscience of his own. identity, meaning that everything could repeat itself at any moment. Not even the sight of a blue sky or the pleasure of birdsong brighten the days of the gloomy protagonist of Stigma: in the dense haze, no wing flapping, because not even a bird has survived, and with the blue of the sky and with the birds have gone that great possibility - which so often, by distraction, man denies himself - to rejoice in the little things.