「豆の木」「桃の伝説・前編」「桃の伝説・後編」「いつか王子様が」「月の輪」「狙われた三人」「灰」「赤いパーカーの女」「７人の小さな老人」「地蔵は歌う」「ロバの街」「月にお願い」

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she returned to teaching, her storytelling interests had shifted. Before suffering a stroke she drew “In Captivity” (2012) and “Solitary Death Building” (2015)—both focused on aging and death. Offshore Lightning collects Saito’s early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas. Stories like “Buy Dog Food and Go Home” and “Offshore Lightning” focus on middle-aged men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and lost loves. By contrast, “In Captivity” follows three siblings visiting their ailing mother who is succumbing to dementia and resentful at her loss of agency. The siblings take a drive as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with attempting to honor this woman at the end of her life. “Solitary Death Building” documents an eccentric cast of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing complex where they all live.. 1. **Toward The Sunset** (夕暮れへ) 2. **Offshore Lighting** (沖の稲妻) 3. **Parakeet God** (インコの神) 4. **Buy Dog Food, Then Go Home** (ドッグフードを買ってお家に帰ろう) 5. **Countdown** (カウントダウン) 6. **A Mother of Pearl Ship** (螺鈿の舟) 7. **Gingko** (銀杏) 8. **Upskirt** (スカートの中) 9. **In Captivity** (トラワレノヒト) 10. **House of Solitary Death** (ぼっち死の館) (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

1 - Dokuro Chichi (髑髏乳) [Young Comic 1972-9-27] 2 - Buta Onna (豚女) [SM Zasshi] 3 - Kami ni Chikau Ko (神に誓う子) [Garo 1974-9] 4 - Hakoiri Musume (箱入娘) [Garo 1972-11] 5 - Inga (Dai Ichi-bu (因果(第一部) [Garo 1973-6] 6 - Inga (Atsui) (因果(暑い) [Garo 1973-9] 7 - Inga (Samui) (因果(寒い) [Garo 1974-3] 8 - Niku-yashiki (肉屋敷) [Garo 1972-5] 9 - Tatakau Onna (戦フ女) [Garo 1973-5] 10 - Misemono Goya (見世物小屋) [Garo 1971-11] 11 - Tsuki no Hikari (月ノ光) [Original 1980-8]

The story of a boy named Domon Ken and his hardships, struggling with his abandonment, the death of his grandfather, and the madness of his mother.