Oddly, each manga sets forth a somewhat divergent “origin story” for Yozo (although only having read the first volume of three of Usamaru’s, they may actually converge.) Yozo is clearly a person who doesn’t know how to ‘human,’ and so puts on a clowning/please-everyone personality.
Yozo Oba, the fictionalize stand-in for Osamu is the main character in both manga. I’ve read a few that I’ve enjoyed? But, they’re always a tougher sell for me. I think I’ve written here before about the various catagories of memoirs that seem to exist: “I had an extremely sh*tty life,” “I have had (a series of) interesting job(s),” “I’m doing a weird thing for a year,” and “I go to/have lived in cooler places than you.” I have the least amount tolerance for the first type of memoir. I have to admit knowing that much of what is written is pseudo-autobiographical make it a lot more… tolerable? Reading both of these and then looking up Osamu’s life was pretty fascinating. Given that at least one version of this was by renown horror mangaka, Itou, you can bet that Osamu did not exactly life a happy life. and, apparently, his life to some extent. Both are based on a novel version Ningen Shikkaku / No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. My library had the first volume of Ningen Shikkaku / No Longer Human by Usamaru Furuya (pictured on the top/left.) To my surprise, when I went looking for it on-line, I discovered the second version by Itou Junji, also called Ningen Shikkaku / No Longer Human .
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