Tokyo Higoro

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Synonyms: Tokyo Everyday

Japanese: 東京ヒゴロ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 24

Status: Finished

Published: Jun 12, 2019 to Jun 12, 2023

Genre: Drama

Themes: Adult Cast, Otaku Culture

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Big Comic Original Zoukan

Authors: Matsumoto, Taiyou (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.66¹ (scored by 822 users)

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Ranked: #2032²

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Popularity: #5741

Members: 4,121

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Tokyo These Days

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On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself.

(Source: VIZ Media)

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Tokyo Higoro ranked fifth in the 2022 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division.

The series was published in English as Tokyo These Days by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint from January 16, 2024, to September 17, 2024.

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Shiozawa, Kazuo

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Miyazaki, Chosaku

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May 2, 2025

stuuvtidrc

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I'll start by saying that I believe this manga is an escellent work, a great title by an already famous and skillfull artist.
The story is simple enough, an editor for a manga publishing company resignes after a failed magazine he curated. From here, he starts to question his love for the genre and ultimately decides to publish on his own, as a freelancer, with all the artists he loved most during his carreer.
But this title is not only on manga and the creative process of every author we encounter in its pages, it's about denouncing the serialization of art, against the oppressing system ...

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Jun 14, 2025

lithiumflower

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"I wanted you to read something of mine, just one more time. Well, then. How've you been these days, Shiozawa?"

Do you ever think about how your favourite mangaka feels about their own work? How they've felt about different series they've crafted throughout their career? What makes them keep at it, despite cancellations, tight deadlines, endless rewrites?

Tokyo Higoro is, at its heart, about the love of manga. About how creators and readers are drawn to it, about creating the truest and most authentic works our hearts can produce. About one editor, freshly freelancing after a long tenure at a well-known publisher, seeking out the creators he's ...

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Jul 13, 2025

Ek0

Recommended

Please be patient while reading this review, my thoughts are very scattered and I don't think I can collect them well enough to properly convey how I feel about this manga.
But I will try.

I think I need to preface this with the fact that this is the first thing I've ever read from Taiyou Matsumoto. I haven't also seen anime based on his work before, so this is truly a first hands-on experience for me.

As someone who creates sometimes, and generally desires to tell stories in whatever form feels correct for the story, these books are a truly beautiful read.
Therefore I believe that anyone ... who likes creating, and especially people who really enjoy manga/comics as a medium, will most likely enjoy reading this.

Now without spoiling anything about the story itself, I will talk about the things I really loved when reading this manga.

First is the paneling/ story-boarding(?) (I don't know if this is the correct term for what I'm about to describe, hence the question mark).
When reading this I felt like I was watching a movie. I can't really put it into words better than this. The flow between the panels is so smooth. I genuinely don't know how to better explain this, but it's so damn satisfying. Reading this made me feel like I could see the images in the panels moving, like I could hear the noise of the streets depicted, like the people were actually walking and living in this world.
I don't think I've ever felt so truly immersed reading anything like this before. Honestly, a magical experience.

Second would be the feeling/ vibe.
The entire work is dressed in this melancholy that isn't so heavy as to drown you in it, but it's always there, softly perceptible, coloring everything in its tone. There is a touch of somberness in this, that is palpable throughout the whole story, but again, not to the point that it drags you down emotionally. It feels very grounded and real. The story itself can make you emotional nonetheless.

Third, let's talk about the characters.
The characters also feel very real, very human. Everyone is its own character, with their own quirks, their troubles, their hopes & dreams. It never feels like there's someone that doesn't belong or that is the same as someone else. Everyone's story is unique and interesting enough to read. It keeps you wanting to learn more about these people and their lives.

Fourth is the art.
Again, as this is my first time reading anything from Taiyou Matsumoto, I was intrigued by the art-style. It's most certainly not something I'm used to. It feels like a painting. It's not something that I'd call conventional in the manga space, but it's so unbelievably charming and gorgeous to look at. It quickly grows on you.

Lastly, I just want to say that this man seems like a really good storyteller and I can't wait to read more of his works in the future.

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