Just So Happens

There are not enough graphic novels on the mainstream market, and is this because putting pictures in books seems somewhat juvenile; taking us back to our childhood and making us think they aren’t ’grown up’ enough? Well, that thought is surely challenged in the reading of Fumio Obata’s Just So Happens.

Set across two very different cities and cultures, protagonist Yumiko travels from her home in London back to Japan for the funeral of her father.