Katabami to Ougon

[MangaDex]

 

[4V29LN0n]

Fuck UK.

 

[axelTHEGREAT]

this is a good pick, thank you!

 

[viridescentlights]

I just started, but wow, I don't know if I should cry or smile. It's so good.

 

[Kiirach]

I think this one is so underrated, i love the story.

 

[Justice88]

Daily reminder that it was a genocide, not a famine.

Spoiler

Too heavy for me to read to be honest.

 

[Cyro11]

"Famine" *wink* *wink*

 

[DragonRider45]

Wait, is this Ireland?

 

[vonbraun]

This is a fucking masterpiece.
I cannot even begin to express how much I love this manga.
The settting, the restrained but persistant comedy underlyng the fucking awful conditions of it all... but it's somehow hopeful?! What?!

Come on how the hell are folks not reading this right now what a wonderful time to read something like this.

Lordy. How does it seem evenly plausible that they'll be in California in 10 chapters but also could just still be stuck in new york at this rate? I can't imagine a bad route.

I'm in like sin. Watch 2020 discontinue this art piece before my very eyes. Please spare me.

 

[vonbraun]

Know what holy shit this manga made me learn something. The comments here of all things. Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
I learned today that the choice to not close off exports of food out of the country led to economic forces that exacerbated or straight up caused the mass starvations.

Jesus nothing about this manga flinches away from that possibility or even brings it up. It's not even really part of the story I guess.

The xenophobia and anti-foreigner riots and just deep rooted bigotry isn't all there is to it here. There's no better source of drama than history I suppose. Man this series is a trip.

 

[xyzzy]

@vonbraun

Pretty much. There’s a reason why Ireland and England aren’t exactly the best of friends.

 

[tanooki]

FYI the plant called katabami is from the woodsorrel family (false shamrocks), instead of clover like traditional shamrocks

Still commonly found in Ireland though

 

[Hitachino_evet]

Why it is so underrated?
I love historical survival stories like this.

 

[tanooki]

French translation is L'oxalis et L'oro