![]() ![]() For that reason he is named Hikaru (meaning ‘to be bright’ or ‘light’ in Japanese.) All is initially well, though there are soon signs that Hikaru is not the same as other children – seemingly quiet and inward-looking, disengaged from events around him, becoming upset at things that do not normally upset young children and not upset at the things that do.Īt about one and a half years old, Hikaru is tested for deafness, though eventually it is realised that he is not deaf but autistic. ![]() ![]() With the Light (published as Hikari to Tomoni in Japan) tells the contemporary story of a young mother, Sachiko Azuma, whose first child is born as the sun is rising. Here though, from a new imprint, we have a very different novel in a graphic format. I understand that the TokyoPop imprint has been very successful, for one, not to mention the Ghost in the Shell and the Akira series for another. Sales outside Japan though are on the rise. Not all manga is like the suggestions given above, though outside Japan, to be fair, such a broad range is less common. However, those who know a little about the topic (which I admit, I am not one) will tell you that in Japan there are as many types of manga as there are genres in fiction. Images of biologically impossible physical feats, computer super-brains, cybernetically or anatomically enhanced young people (usually female), mega-weapons and all-out Armageddon spring to mind? Published by Yen Press/Orbit, October 2007 ![]() With the Light: Raising An Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe ![]()
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