Ben is the sort of cat who walks into a Korean wedding and says, “Man, look at all these Asians,” while Miko programs Asian-American independent films and both are equally skilled in the underhanded art of “fighting without fighting.” As you might imagine, their relationship is in full decay. His girlfriend Miko (alas and tragically) is an Asian-American community activist of the moderate variety. Is set primarily in an almost otherworldly San Francisco Bay Area its antihero, Ben Tanaka, is not your average comic book protagonist: he's crabby, negative, self-absorbed, über-critical, slack-a-riffic and for someone who is strenuously “race-blind,” has a pernicious hankering for whitegirls.
Tomine's lacerating falling-out-of-love story is an irresistible gem of a graphic novel.
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