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A review by studiomikarts
The Minamata Story: An EcoTragedy by Sean Michael Wilson
dark
hopeful
informative
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I unintentionally started reading this. I was trying to get a Humble Bundle of books loaded onto my Kindle when I was told that this file was too big to send. That seemed odd for an .epub format, so I opened the file to see why it was so large. Well, a manga greeted me, and I flipped through the first pages, just to see if it was manga all the way or if it changed to text-only at some point, and that was enough to hook me! I went back to the beginning and read the whole thing in one go! Although the story is rooted in a dark historical event (caused by an ongoing problem: industrial pollution) it was overall filled with hope and a sense of wanting to share the story with the world to help us stop repeating history. While I can't speak to whether the latter is happening, the book has a great story, well paced, and told with lovely artwork. I'd recommend it to anyone curious about this event in Japanese history or wanting an example of the effects of pollution on human and other animal life.
Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Death, Terminal illness, Violence, and Grief