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What is The Waiting about?

Status: Finished

The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn’t come. The young family—now four—fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son.

Then 70 years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can’t stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother.

Tags: War , Family Life , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Historical , Rural , Time Skip

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Pur

Also known as Grass.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Ok-Sun Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War — a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history.

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Included short story: Ro Salpyeoboneun Ilbongun 'Wianbu' (로 살펴보는 일본군 '위안부') by Myeong-Suk Yun.
Nominated to the Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2020.

Tags: Biographical , Historical , War , Non-fiction , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Slavery , Achromatic , Rural , Military

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Senjou no Hito

Also known as On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

After Japan lost the War, the country was thrown into devastation. And no one felt this devastation as much as its women, who were forced into menial jobs, fell into sex work, and pawned off as war brides to American G.I.s. In their affecting graphic novel debut, Marina Lisa Komiya follows the lives of two Japanese women and the American soldiers they marry in this tumultuous time period.

Best friends (and possibly more) before the War, Haru and Yoriko are separated in the evacuation of their town during the air raids. As they search for each other afterward, Haru gets by as a waitress, while Yoriko sells her body at a brothel. Their fortunes change when they each meet respectful American soldiers, who take their hand. Arthur, a Japanese American, grapples with the inner conflict of his dual identity, while Scott is at once fascinated by Japanese culture and wracked with guilt over the destruction American forces have wrought.

Amidst the postwar desolation, love finds a way, in this powerful work of manga that explores sexuality, identity, and unlikely cross-cultural connection.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Historical , War , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order , Time Skip ,

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