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Trash Market

Trash Market

屑の市

A group of men wait outside a blood bank in post–World War II Tokyo, exchanging stories while they sell their blood to afford a meal for the day. Their lives unfold in the city's slums, where poverty and desperation are a daily reality.

"Trash Market" collects six character-driven stories by Tadao Tsuge, a key contributor to the avant-garde magazine Garo. The tales explore the lives of charming lowlifes, war veterans haunted by their past, and an autobiographical account of growing up in a Tokyo slum during the occupation with an abusive grandfather and an ailing father. Blurring fiction and reportage, the manga captures the gritty resilience of those struggling to survive in postwar Japan.

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