“ Stupid Guy Goes to India”- Yukichi Yamamatsu

“ Stupid Guy Goes to India”- Yukichi Yamamatsu
Genre: Graphic Novel

Stupid Guy Goes to India by Yukichi Yamamatsu translated from Japanese by Kumar Sivasubramanian Release Type: Original Price: ` 395 Binding: Paperback, Manga style Imprint: Blaft/Westland Genre: Graphic Novel Page Extent: 230 pp Pub Date: February 2012 Territory: Indian sub-continent About the Book : In 2004, having never before left Japan, 56-year-old manga author Yukichi Yamamatsu travelled to India,armed with little money, less English, no sigmoid colon, and absolutely no idea of what to expect. He did, however, bring with him his formidable art skills, a missionary zeal for spreading Japanese comics culture, and a keen pair of eyes -- through which we are treated to a hilarious, brutally honest look at India as it presents itself to the foreign visitor.
This is the true story of Yukichi’s adventures – playing marbles, searching for bathrooms, betting on horses, visiting a brothel -- and his madcap mission to sell Hindi translations of samurai manga on the mean streets of the nation’s capital.
About the Author Yukichi Yamamatsu was born in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, in 1948. After leaving junior high school, he moved through a variety of jobs in quick succession before selling his first manga manuscript to an Osaka publisher at the age of 16. He has been an acclaimed mangaka for over four decades. Stupid Guy Goes to India, his autobiographical account of his first visit to India, was first published in Japanese in 2008.
About The Translator Kumar Sivasubramanian is an Indian-born Canadian currently living in Melbourne, Australia. He moved to Japan in 1998 and did his first professional translation in 2002. He has since translated over sixty volumes of manga from Japanese to English, including such series as Old Boy, Blade of the Immortal, and Summit of the Gods. He is also an English Language Consultant for the anime production company Sunrise Inc, and he is the writer of the webcomic Weird Crime Theater.