Fumio Obata

Praise for Just So Happens

Just So Happens feels so richly intimate... [Obata] is a talent to watch. I like his elegant, understated drawings, which hint at the manga stories he must have read as a boy. Bullet trains, Shinto temples, s ...

Rachel Cooke, Observer

A beautiful and observant graphic novel.

James Smart, Guardian

This is a book you may want to study, a book of inflection and nuance, a delicate, thoughtful book that entrances the eyes and compels the old grey matter.

Bookmunch

Just So Happens feels so richly intimate... [Obata] is a talent to watch. I like his elegant, understated drawings, which hint at the manga stories he must have read as a boy. Bullet trains, Shinto temples, s ...

Rachel Cooke, Observer

A beautiful and observant graphic novel.

James Smart, Guardian

This is a book you may want to study, a book of inflection and nuance, a delicate, thoughtful book that entrances the eyes and compels the old grey matter.

Bookmunch

Just So Happens feels so richly intimate... [Obata] is a talent to watch. I like his elegant, understated drawings, which hint at the manga stories he must have read as a boy. Bullet trains, Shinto temples, s ...

Rachel Cooke, Observer

A beautiful and observant graphic novel.

James Smart, Guardian

This is a book you may want to study, a book of inflection and nuance, a delicate, thoughtful book that entrances the eyes and compels the old grey matter.

Bookmunch

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