Jisatsutou review

susumepirates14
Apr 03, 2021
Suicide Island is a "philosophical and spiritual auto biography"... Please bear with me

The "I don't belong" or "I don't fit anywhere" theme is a cliche by this point, but suicide island executes on it in a way Ive never seen before.

The main character, after realizing he doesn't belong in his social circle and society as a whole, tries to kill himself, and fails (nothing new at this point) but then he is sent to an isolated island with fellow "suiciders"

Every other story would use this as a new chance to find a place to belong, and this is precisely what the main characters tries to do. There's your usual 2 factions, good and evil, and the mc tries to belong to the good faction.
But things start to go south. The good faction is not so good as they think they are, and the bad faction is not simply bad. Dare I say it, the world isn't black and white. And our character finds himself in the same spot where we began, I don't belong anywhere. But then...
Our main character realizes he has some skills for hunting and connecting with his partner dog and this is where he finds his place.
In many of his travels to hunt for food, he finds himself belonging to the "Circle of Life™". He discovers what does it mean to hunt, to consume energy, to respect prey, to be a part of something bigger, Nature. And finds himself on a spiritual level.
I've never seen this done before, and done so well at that. It touched me deeply, and this is what I consider art, very good art. 10/10
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Jisatsutou
Jisatsutou
Autor Mori, Kouji
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