My Broken Mariko
Staff Reviews
This stand-alone volume follows a young woman's efforts to spread her best friend's ashes at sea after her suicide. Flashbacks give us Tomoyo's unfiltered perspective of the terrible abuse Mariko suffered as a child. This is a manga that asks difficult, unanswerable questions: what is the meaning of a life defined by suffering? But the hiccups in Tomoyo's journey offset the tragedy with unexpected black humor, underscored wonderfully by Hirako's expressive figures, which call to mind early-2000s Gainax. Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Description
Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko’s life-and Tomoyo’s too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko’s death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko’s ashes for one final journey together… to set free her dear, broken Mariko.
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