Book Graphic novel 2021
Children of Mu-Town
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- Publisher
- Glacier Bay Books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Gentrification in literature
- Yakuza
- Social life and customs
- Comic books, strips
Stylistically intermingling themes of gentrification and rebirth within the setting of a classic yakuza crime drama, Children of Mu-Town follows the course charted by youths of an aging residential housing complex who are struggling for their lives: burdened by financial issues, peer pressure, and uncertain futures, ensnared in the clutches of organized crime, they are searching for a way to survive. When a municipal renovation project seems to offer a future of stability for their dilapidated town, the mysterious and far-reaching consequences that their actions set into motion may leave Juichi and his friends with no option but annihilation..... -- Publisher website