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Disappearance Diary

Disappearance Diary

失踪日記

In 1989, acclaimed manga artist Hideo Azuma, overwhelmed by the relentless pressure of deadlines, abruptly abandons his career and family. He disappears into the streets, living as a homeless man who scavenges for food and cigarettes, finding a strange routine in survival on the margins of society. His first period of vagrancy ends only when he is arrested by the police and returned home.

A few years later, in 1992, the cycle repeats. Azuma runs away again, this time eventually finding temporary work as a gas pipe layer in another town, while still grappling with his inability to cope with conventional life. The narrative then shifts to 1998, detailing his severe struggle with alcoholism and his subsequent, forced admission into a rehabilitation clinic.

Throughout these three distinct episodes of collapse, Azuma recounts his experiences not with despair, but with a surprising and resilient levity, using his cartoonist's eye to find humor and absurdity in the darkest moments of his life.

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