The power of this book is in the fact that Hanazawa takes his time about everything, fully drawing all the minutia of Suzuki’s life, and adding all his delusions to the comic as if they were real. On top of this he has an imaginary friend called Yajima that manifests in the form of a small boy, as well as talking to Yajima Suzuki often see’s evil demons trying to attack him when he is alone, and fantasizes about how conversations would go with his colleagues at work which are presented as actually taking place the illusion is only shattered when his colleagues ask him to stop talking to himself. Suzuki is a veritable smorgasbord board of neurosis, he has low self-esteem, anxiety, social awkwardness, OCD, and irrational fears. Suzuki is a washed up Mangaka who has had to take a job as an assistant artist after his first serialized series ‘uncut Penis’ was cancelled. The zombie story in itself is nothing new, where Hanazawa breaks new ground is with his main character Hideo Suzuki. ‘I am a Hero’ is not only the most refreshing piece of zombie fiction I have come across since ‘Shaun of the dead’ it is one of the most unique pieces of fiction I have read in a long time. Started in 2009 it is currently still running with a total of 20 collected volumes in print in its native country. ‘I am a Hero’ omnibus volume one contains the first two Japanese collected editions of Hanazawa Kengo’s zombie horror Comic.
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