[Signed] "Burning Sound (French Version)" Yuichi Yokoyama

Title: "Burning Sound (French Version)"
Author: Yuichi Yokoyama
Publisher: Éditions Matière
Language: French
Size: 24.0 x 17.0 cm

Yokoyama Yuichi's manga is not merely an act of "drawing"; it contains a seemingly modest but crucial element of "collage." From the lengthy drafting process to the finished work, Yokoyama often cuts and pastes his drawings, cutting out lines and replacing them with others. Sometimes this is to make corrections, and sometimes it is to reconstruct the composition.

In Burning Sounds, this collage-like technique is taken to its limits, now finally coming to the forefront of the images, as if the lines, movements and situations in this work could no longer withstand being clearly depicted or contained within a rational frame, but instead collided with each other, crashing into each other in a constant explosion.

The resulting manga is a kaleidoscope of dreams, where scenes, emotions and sensations switch from one to the next without any logical connection: one fragment of imagery displaces the next, only to be instantly swept away by lines of rage and countered by sudden recall and insertions of formulaic phrases like "Action!", "Hurry!", "Smoke!", "Run!".

Yokoyama describes "Moeru Oto" as "an experimental manga modeled on experimental poetry, with minimal narrative," and goes on to say, "Once I read a novel, I don't reread it for the next 30 years, but I keep reading contemporary poetry books over and over again."

Yuichi Yokoyama  
Graduated from Musashino Art University oil painting department. He used to make fine art, but since 2000 he prefers comics as his medium of expression because he can "paint time". Yokoyama's manga, characterized by dashing lines and onomatopoeia, the uninterrupted flow of time and unique characters, is called "neo-manga", and is "New Doboku", "Travel", "NIWA", " Baby Boom”, “World Map Room” and many other books have been translated and published in countries such as Japan, France, the United States, Italy, Spain, and Russia, and have gained popularity. In addition, high-quality works such as "BABY BOOM FINAL", which reproduces Yokoyama's vividly colored original paintings with plenty of high-concentration fluorescent colors, have also been published.