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I could not see things clearly.
I was unable to work right after.
Among other things we had power outages.
During the following days and weeks, I was in doubt.
I thought about the uselessness of manga.
In such a terrible situation what can one bring drawing manga?
Feeling my powerlessness made me particularly depressed.
Today, the reality is telling us to stop using nuclear power plants,
but the main question is to know how to execute this, how to proceed.
Each of us must individually think about it.
Personally, I do not know if it's possible,
but I believe we ought to lower our standard of living,
and reduce electricity consumption.
When I grew up, we would do with much less.
probably because we were poorer.
Raising our voice does not change anything. As if it was all planned in advance.
So when we think of the best way to act,
not using electricity seems to be the most sensible solution.
It's anyway for me the only possible angle of action.
Yes, we can join a protest
but politicians do not directly react to it,
even though there's so much to do with Fukushima now, nothing gets done.
Witnessing that, we can only be stressed and angered.
And we ask ourselves what could we do on our own.
It is a complex situation.
We can no longer keep on destroying nature like we've done until now.
We have now to find a way to coexist,
to stop its exploitation and demolition.
We have in front of us the opportunity to start thinking of new ties with nature.
Slowness, walking are my themes.
But I am not in search of efficiency as a goal, or use notes to lecture about it.
I'd like to write stories where we can live in slowness, gazing peacefully around.
If I have the opportunity to write such stories,
if I can achieve communicating this through my manga,
then I want to keep on writing.
I don't know if I'd be able to sell that,
but if I am given that chance then yes, I truly wish to write that way.