Associated Names
モリのアサガオ
モリのアサガオ 新人刑務官と或る死刑囚の物語
最後的日出
Mori no Asagao
Status in Country of Origin
7 Volumes (Complete)
Genre
Drama, Psychological, Seinen, Slice of Life, Tragedy
Author(s)
GOUDA Mamora
Artist(s)
GOUDA Mamora
Year
2003
Description
A work which highlights the “present” of the capital punishment system through OIKAWA Naoki, a newly recruited prison officer, who faces condemned criminals everyday and agonizes. Based on close and careful research, the author tackles with the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on.
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New prison guard Oikawa Naoki gets assigned to the death row section. He strikes a friendship with Watase Mitsuru, who, rather conveniently (contrast with Freeze Me), far from being a sadist, a sociopatic killer or rapist, dangerous to society or even particularly cruel, is actually quite a simpathetic character, someone that, unable to get justice from the system, killed the man that murdered his parents.
The fact that he did not target defenceless and innocent victims for no good reason, but rather had a motive that could be understood, allows the guard to put himself in his shoes and understand his reasons and point of view, and provides a contrast between the unfairness of his circumstances, his undeserved fate, and the fact that system had failed to vindicate his parents, leaving him with no other alternative besides being cast in the role of the powerless victim. Gradually Naoki begins to wonder about the necessity of the death penalty and the meanings of such concepts as repentance and forgiveness.
The series won the 11th Grand Prize for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007. Three years later, it was adapted into a 10-episode live-action television drama for TV Tokyo.
Award Reason
This work earnestly and stoically depicts the life of those who are imprisoned and condemned for committing serious crimes, facing their own death every morning and every day, and the prison guard who takes care of them, but will one day have to execute them with his own hands. The human mind is very unstable; people can be kind and honest citizens or violent and reckless criminals, and with but a little cause. Is capital punishment, therefore, right or wrong? This is a project that Mr. GOUDA Mamora has been working on and agonizing over for a long time, dealing with a difficult theme and seeking to answer his own question; he kept working on it, even though he wandered in a deep, dark, forest. The jury members felt that the attitude of the artist was laudable, being unswayed by popularity or the opinions of the readers, and that, although his manga was rather inconspicuous, the character presentation and story, which are based on sincere interviews and research, combined with the characteristic drawing skill of the artist, has resulted in a very serious work that provokes questions about important issues.
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