James and Will talk about the concluding volume of Shunju Aono's adult slice of life manga. Although the manga itself has some upsetting themes, and the genre isn't as popular compared to shonen stories, it however proves to be a genuinely heart-warming experience that deserves to be read and talked about. Skip synopsis @ 4:35
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083: I'll Give It My All Tomorrow… vol. 5
Chapters 23 and 28, 'Goodbye for Today' and 'Suzuko'
By Shunju Aono
Translation by Akemi Wegmuller
Lettering by Steven Rhyse
The final volume begins by recapping previous events. Where Shizuo Oguro, a middle-aged man who makes the decision to devote himself to making manga, his daughter is nonplussed by the decision but his father is the one who berates him for it. His editor would butter him up with compliments on his manga despite the rejections. When his editor leaves, he gets a new one, Aya Unami, and she is more brutal with her criticism. Shizuo becomes friends with a young man, Ichinosawa and his best friend, Osamu Miyata sets up a bakery with Ichinosawa's help. Through his days of playing videogames, playing football in the park with kids and working part time at a burger joint he still pushes through towards making manga. Hoping to get published.
Aya Unami tells Shizuo that because of his age, the stakes are too high for him to get published. He lacks the hope and future growth that an 18-year-old may bring, yet she also tells him that he has potential to tell better stories because of his age and that life experience can be a benefit for him. She suggests to him that in order to write better stories he should think as if he was writing a letter to someone, to treat his manga making process with the same respect and consideration as if he was saying something to someone special.
Soon afterwards Ichinosawa arrives to the bakery to find that Miyata has disappeared, leaving letters addressed to both his friends and the business within Ichinosawa's hands.
This adds an incredible amount of stress on Shizuo now that he has to help Ichinosawa with the bakery, but he does so with determination and grace in the hopes that he will see Miyata return. Shizuo also manages to make a manga for Miyata, one that not only tells Miyata's story but gives it hope and a happy ending that both Shizuo and Miyata so desperately need.
In the final chapter, we see an epilogue that takes place from Suzuko's point of view, where we ultimately find out what she thinks of her dad, Shizuo Oguro.
Topics:
- Why 'I'll Give It My All… Tomorrow!' is a great manga despite its genre as a slice of life adult manga being an acquired taste.
- We find out the name of Suzuko's mother is Akari, which means that Eriko is not the mother and Shizuo didn't have a chance in hell with Eriko.
- A Hostess/Host club is a bar where people pay for the company of the opposite sex. The type of establishment that Susuzko's mother worked in is similar to what Ichinosawa worked in too. Read here for more information on host clubs.
- Suzuko as a character and her relationship with her father Shizuo.
- 'I'll Give It My All… Tomorrow' is not Shunju Aono's autobiography, the closest thing he has to one is the later manga 'Slapstick' which portrays his childhood experiences. Not to be confused with the Marvel character that shares the same name.
- 'I'll Give It My All… Tomorrow' has a sequel roughly translated by name as 'I'm Not Serious… Yet', Not too be confused with Nazuna Miki's manga which has a similar name. Aono's companion piece comprises of one single Tankobon volume and acts more as an anthology based on the characters from 'I'll Give It My All… Tomorrow', with individual stories set before and after Shizuo becoming a mangaka.
- Million Yen Women… a 4 volume manga, which has been made into a Netflix show, 12 episodes to be precise.
- A live-action film adaptation of I'll Give It My All... Tomorrow was announced in June 2012. The film is directed by Yūichi Fukuda, starring Shinichi Tsutsumi as Shizuo Ōguro and Renji Ishibashi plays his father. Going against expectation, Aiko does not perform any songs for the movie, instead the girl group Scandal fulfils that role, whilst Gontiti is responsible for the score.
Other references:
- Shizuo's T-shirts: Homerun (a baseball reference), Semi-sparkling, Maradonna (The Argentinian footballer, known by the nicknames The Golden Boy, the Artful Dodger and The Hand of God, because of an incident in the 1986 FIFA world cup), Gum, Team Leader, Baby (Because Shizuo behaves as such), Mi Yata, HP-5 (An unusual one, that may refer to a series of Hewlett Packard's Laser Jet Printers), Organic, Oguro Union, Bunt (another baseball reference), Non Sugar, Dobu, Papa, Figure.
- Konowata a.k.a Sea Cucumbers is referenced once again.
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