At home shelves full of thrillers tend to belong to my mustache. But when the detective story is treated as a chronic urban tender and biting, and that the author is a contemporary Japanese writer, then I proudly claim ownership of the books!
Ikebukuro West Gate Park is a popular series in Japan. The first volume was an award-winning drama adapted (TV series) and even in the manga (released in France in Asuka).
The French version is published by Piker ensure that a book of good quality and above all, with a high quality translation. One flat, the price, especially for the third volume, available in large format and pagination of which is low.
Trouble shooter
Ikebukuro West Gate Park is a particular book. He tells us, the first person, the daily life of a young Japanese in Tokyo lost landmark, a pseudo offender who works as a salesman when even the little fruit shop run by her mother. The rest of the time zone there. Makoto is not a bad guy, just a big teenager hesitating, the future unclear, which is swept away by events. But when girls are attacked in his neighborhood of Ikebukuro when a girl is killed, he reacts.
The first book in the series consists of four new unfolding chronologically. One story to another, we find the same places, even characters who hang out, bored and sometimes attend Makoto. Gradually, the young man and asserting the former high school student acquires a special reputation.
Neither a hero nor a villain, Makoto solves any trouble for those who can not afford a private and, for ethical reasons or just common sense, can not go to the cops failing to finish them even behind bars. Some clueless bimbos who prostitutes almost to pass the time, the gang kids, to apprentices yakuza, Makoto meeting, help and sometimes looks away. Takes place between the pages of a newspaper is long days gland, scheming to find the Thune, and accidents that disrupt the lives of humans not really spoiled by life.
And always a special look and tender, an avid observer of life Ikebukuro.
Another Japanese ...
The author, Ira Ishida, Japan describes a dirty, poor, suspended between a glorious past and an uncertain future decided by the laws of capitalism and advertising. A Japan whose roots are corrupted by drugs, sexual perversion, violence. Japan moving a marker and Youth undecided. And yet we are very far from the dark novels by Ryu Murakami. It is with heartfelt hope Ishida describes the Ikebukuro district, have humor, too. His style: a slang flowered without being inaccessible, direct and funny. Withholding any Japanese in the emotions that sometimes crop out a few moments and squeeze the heart between two aftershocks felt good.
The new web is fluid, coherent and composed a colorful picture of a district of Tokyo to the soul affirmed. Ikebukuro made the big difference between an area populated by people from middle class or disadvantaged and employees working in the posh skyscrapers clustered around the Sunshine 60. When one closes the book, we know the streets and shops. You want to walk.
Trilogy ikebukurienne
In all, three volumes recounting the travels of Makoto have been posted. The second, still fairly new form of short continues the momentum with small surveys often triggered by an encounter unlikely that the insatiable curiosity of Makoto. Both stories depict children, with your moving and surprising. I found Makoko and its problems, its ability to fuck himself with the mess, with much pleasure. One regret, consistency provided by the recurrence of secondary characters disappeared.
The third and final volume, thinner, consists of a single plot in the middle of raves and drugs.
Writing always happens to reconcile relatively gloomy subjects with a tone almost weightless. Makoto no longer a confused kid, he is a man who takes his choice, sometimes against the heart, sometimes with painful concessions, but he won a force, a raison d'etre.
And when we close the book, one begins to hope that a fourth book guides us even in the noisy and lively streets of Ikebukuro.
Copyright: Marianne Ciaudo 
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