He was even more disgusting than Book Yozo when it came to life with Shizuko and Shiori.

He’s prone to self-destructive behavior, doesn’t think things through, and then wallows in bitterness rather than accept the consequences. Rather than just sort of being taken in by Shizuko, he does his best to manipulate her into offering to take him in, making use of both his good looks and his abilities in bed. Furuya’s Yozo is less sympathetic than Dazai’s (who, granted, tended to be pretty terrible), more likely to blame his father for his own problems, and more calculating. My interpretation of the original book and Furuya’s interpretation continue to differ wildly. Although I still end up comparing the two works a lot in this review. I think I’ve finally accepted that this isn’t so much an adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human as it is Dazai’s plot and Usamaru Furuya’s Yozo. Although outwardly things appear to be going well for Yozo - he now has a roof over his head, a job as a children’s manga artist, and somebody willing to fork over money anytime he wants to go out and buy booze - he feels stifled by Shizuko’s love and her young daughter’s wish for him to be her real father.īy the end of the volume, Yozo has finally found something like happiness. She dotes on him, seeing his pretty face and nothing else. Having no other place to go, he ends up living with his friend Horiki's editor, Shizuko. Yozo manages to escape one prison only to end up in another. Yozo blames his father and stews in his own bitterness while essentially living trapped in the former servant’s home. The idea of being punished for her death gives him the sense of purpose he craves, but this is snatched from his hands by the police’s decision to set him free and deliver him to the hands of one of his family’s former servants. Yozo has survived his attempted double suicide with Ageha. This volume picks up where the previous one left off. I checked this out via interlibrary loan.

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