Ganmanga: We Have a Serious Disease

Manga artist Shungiku Uchida, whose numerous hit works include the revolutionary child-rearing manga "We are Reproducing," and "Minami's Lover," which has been dramatized for TV many times, was suddenly diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2015...! The slapstick events leading up to the discovery, hospitalization, and surgery, the mechanism and side effects of anticancer drugs, the physical and environmental changes that ensued, and the turbulent days with her four children before and after the surgery... The author's unique comic essay on the battle against cancer faces cancer head-on and describes it in her trademark frank style. (Source: Bunkasha, translated)