Author:Fumio Obata
'I still remember arriving in the city for the first time... It wasn't easy... But here, London, is my home.'
Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident.
Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death – and confronting a decision she hadn’t expected to have to make.
Just So Happens is a graphic novel by a young artist and storyteller of rare talent. Fumio Obata’s drawing, in particular, is marvellous in its power and delicacy.
Just So Happens feels so richly intimate... [Obata] is a talent to watch. I like his elegant, understated drawings, which hint at the manga stories he must have read as a boy. Bullet trains, Shinto temples, shopping malls, sushi restaurants: he does them all beautifully. His storytelling, too, is crazily accomplished.
—— Rachel Cooke , ObserverA beautiful and observant graphic novel.
—— James Smart , GuardianThis is a book you may want to study, a book of inflection and nuance, a delicate, thoughtful book that entrances the eyes and compels the old grey matter.
—— BookmunchA powerful story dealt with a deft brush in hand.
—— MonocleTold with great care and dignity... The illustrations reflect the mood of the story perfectly, creating a sense of movement and transition which mirrors Yumiko's journey.
—— Vicki Bartram , UK Press SyndicationRich in detail.
—— Yo Zushi , New StatesmanA powerful story with beautiful drawings… It’s a triumph… A debut of quiet and delicate beauty, this is the graphic novel for the thinking creative.
—— Natalie Brandweiner , Creative BloqThe next hot ticket could be British artist Philippa Rice, whose marvellously inventive blogs My Cardboard Life and Soppy have won her fans across the world
—— Anna Baddeley , GuardianMcGuire adds lavish color and some plot, but he preserves the captivating, uncanny sense of love, anger and tragedy flying across the centuries while staying in one place.
—— Mark AthikisOne of the most engaging graphic novel experiments in book form I've ever seen
—— Los Angeles TimesHere heightens our awareness of how much has gone before and is still to come
—— Independent (Best graphic novels of 2014)Rarely does a conceptual work seize the emotions like Here. Every moment seems insignificant compared with the massive sweep of time, and yet the most trivial actions take on an aching poignancy
—— NPRAlmost overwhelmingly poignant. His masterful sense of time and the power of the mundane makes this feel like the graphic novel equivalent of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life
—— Publishers Weekly (starred review)Completely wonderful
—— MetroYou begin to appreciate McGuire's extraordinary command of history and pacing . . . the non-chronological arrangement seems faithful to how consciousness really works
—— FInancial Times WeekendWonderful graphic novel.
—— Arifa Akbar , IndependentThe storyline is exciting and well thought out to give a wide overview of the suffrage movement. I was very pleasantly surprised.
—— Lattice , GuardianA seamless blend of historical fact and fiction ... The illustrations are full of energy and expression.
—— Jacqui Agate , Independent
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