<p align="justify"In Mighty Mothers, women cook but their blades are mainly used to slice the bodies of yakuza. Forget the traditional image of the Japanese mother and discover an educational guide that is cutting edge.
A barely futuristic universe
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Mighty Mothers begins as a social documentary. Akane Honjô raises her son Shintarō alone. She pedals like crazy on a bike to arrive in time to drop him off at the kindergarten and then goes to her job as a cashier. She is wrong and customers get upset because she struggles to keep up. His colleagues blame him for these mistakes. However, turning the page, the reader of Mighty Mothers is disconcerted by discovering a scene from a thriller. In a shed, a vendor organizes a sex slave sale with yakuza. A masked woman appears. She comes to save women. Very clever, she leaves no chance to these men. She is one of the Mighty Mothers who wants to restore justice. The reader follows the revelation of a hidden world, that of organized crime. There are networks and hitmen classified by level.
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Cartoonist and writer Eiji Karasuyama describes a dark Japan in the three-volume series Mighty Mothers. Society has become poorer and single mothers are struggling to raise their children. Behind a clean façade, there are many tragedies, especially for women. The police seem to be totally absent. To redress these injustices, women are standing up. They form a secret society that attacks the mafia. This can be seen in the first three chapters. These comprehensive stories introduce a new character each time and the concept of Mighty Mothers. We then discover a chameleon teacher Silvia and a ninja cook then the group and their surprising leader. They don't have a secret base but a café. In the last part, the reader is immersed in a collective attack leading to a female duel.
Mighty Mothers, a feminist social thriller
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Throughout the pages, Mighty Mothers is a doubly original series: by the characters and themes addressed. Indeed, all the main characters are women and more particularly single mothers. They compartmentalize their public image and their private lives. In addition, the series tackles topics rarely read in manga.
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Mafiosi practice sexual slavery. The dialogues of Mighty Mothers show that women are only flesh whose freshness is evaluated by men without morals. This verbal violence is reinforced with very harsh images of chained and dirty in a container. On the one hand, the French reader discovers the harshness of the life of a single mother in a patriarchal society. She is left with low-paying jobs where she has to redouble her efforts. On the other hand, some of these Mighty Mothers are immigrants. They have low-paid and exhausting jobs, and then in the evenings they take Japanese classes.
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The surprise also comes from the drawing of Eiji Karasuyama. Very fluid, it adapts to changes in tone. The beginning of kindergarten is very tender with gentle looks and smiles despite the harshness of society. When the gunfight starts the layout explodes. Like bullets, the boxes go in all directions. The arrangement of the bodies and the immense onomatopoeias further reinforce the dynamism of the scenes. The drawing is clever by using many significant details in a box: the poster of a famous spy, a surveillance image. Further on, the dialogues of a talkative child hide a woman's face. Eiji Karasuyama also knows how to be inhuman during an unbearable rape scene.
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The cover chosen by the publisher Mangetsu sums up the series well. Cut vertically, we see a woman in two radically different atmospheres: a positive mother for her son and a vigilante acting in a very dark world. This first volume begins in everyday life to allow the reader to enter Mighty Mother before accelerating. The twists and turns culminate in a kidnapping promising tense moments in volume two.
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