FIR# 11
Title of Comic book/manga: The Embalmer
Author/Artist: Mitsukazu Mihara
Genre: Tragedy, Romance
Volumes Read: 1-4
Date read and finished: August 13-August 28, 2010
Every time I wait for the Manga Website to finally show the next volume, I was always like, "Finally! I can read it!"
The Embalmer was more than I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be some Sci-Fi thing about the Dead, but I never expected there would be heartfelt-drama on it. It's like Grey's Anatomy meets Six-feet under.
The Summary
Shinjurou Mamiya is an embalmer in Japan--a rarity and also looked down upon by the general public. Despite this, Shin--along with his friend and undertaker, Renji, and a few others--does their job to reunite loved ones with the ones who had died and make them understand the importance of grief and acceptance.
For Shinjurou's part, it's just a job, but with it, he comes to an understanding of what it truly means to live.
Insights
I really love reading this, actually. Not only does it make you want to sympathize the characters because they are realistically made by the author/artist, but because it makes you realize how blessed you are to live and that you live the most of it.
In this manga, they not only talk about how inevitable death is, but also how it affects a person's daily life is--especially to the protagonist, Shin, who has to deal with the dead all the time and has to deal with issues regarding embalming in his country.
'Death is a funny noun,' as Shin once said, as everyday he and his fellow morticians try to make the ones who has lost a loved one understand the true meaning of death, as they say death is just a physical state but the spirit lives on, and the ones they embalm are still people and should be respected even after burying them.
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