The Longest Photo In The World

By Robert Vaughn

If "The Samurai at Sixteen" paints a picture of the joy and fear of a newborn baby seeing the new world, "The Longest Picture in the World" depicts the prison of puberty. The friend who had just moved away and was the president of the Photography Club told Hironobu, "I'm worried about you for some reason," but Hironobu himself was not aware of it. The portrayal is very realistic. In general, the main character is in puberty, more or less harboring feelings, but Hironobu cannot even perceive the existence of those feelings. Writing this, I suddenly remembered when I was a child, I was very surprised when reading comics for girls. "Girls think about such things? How can I satisfy..." My boys and I were playing together at that time, and none of us would say what we wanted to do or what we were thinking. There are many people who try their best not to think about "What am I thinking?" and end up being idiots. I am one of them. But trying to pretend not to understand your own feelings turns out to be very tiring. Because people cannot isolate themselves. Honda's "World's Longest Picture" depicts that mental prison with ease and precision. Honda didn't pretend to understand and scoffed, "Is this how young people feel?" So his emotions were able to merge with Hironobu's. He could understand Hironobu's feeling of suffocation and lack of oxygen while submerged deep under water. So I was able to read the second half of the book happily. The second half describes the story of Hironobu meeting other people, meeting the world, and meeting himself, even if only little by little. I was able to experience the joy of discovering my own world with Hironobu. The Great Mamiya, Cousin Acchan, the sunflower field, the photo studio uncle, Director Miyoshi, Andou Erika...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F63977Y6
• ISBN13: 9798280824195
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 173 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.4" x 5.8"