A somewhat absent father and a bully for an older brother fill in the rest of the picture. For example, his mother was previously embroiled in an affair with her flamenco teacher. With his variously disappointing family members, it’s no wonder that Makoto entered a period of intense disillusionment that led to his taking his own life. As the narrator explores Makoto’s world, the drab colors of his home life come into focus. Prapura names the terms, effectively giving him a year to improve the state of his soul while occupying Makoto Kobayashi’s body before reentering the cycle of reincarnation. The narrator occupies this strange limbo, enacting a pantomime of the deceased’s life prior to his suicide. Guided by the angel Prapura, the dead soul comes to occupy the body of a terribly unhappy 14-year-old boy, Makoto Kobayashi, who took his own life. This begins the unnamed narrator’s afterlife journey in Eto Mori’s Colorful, an unusual coming-of-age story. “As my dead soul leisurely drifted off to some dark place, this angel I’d never seen before suddenly appeared right in my way.” Colorfulby ETO MORI GENRE: FICTION | Counterpoint 2021 | REVIEWED BY Esther ro
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