by Kevin Wolf In the Afterword (1982) to My Picture Diary—covering most of 1981—Fujiwara Maki, the author, wrote, “The first half of this book is sunny, while the second half is dark—which seems a little wrong to me, though I know it reflects reality. [184]” Tsuge Yoshiharu, her husband and manga artist, suffers from “anxiety neurosis … it’s when worrying too much becomes pathological. … not only was I in no position to help my husband, I joined him on his downward descent into depression. [185]” She thought their son, Shōsuke might like My Picture Diary later. Takano Shinzō, a… Read More