From This Flame

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“I see so much manga on a daily basis, so many commercial products… When I sat down and I started reading From This Flame I was so happy… This book is so beautiful… each chapter it has this beautiful, lovely, detailed artwork, and I just loved it… when I got to the story The God Beyond the Mountains I was just enamored with every page I was looking at… it was so good… a beautiful, short art film that speaks to their soul… This is fantastic. This is 100% a top runner in my best manga of 2022. That’s how much I loved From This Flame.” [Manga Machinations]

“I really enjoyed reading this collection… If I had to… define From This Flame’s overarching theme[:] ‘the weight of the inevitable’. Like a piece of candy that rolls sweetly on your tongue but sometimes gets stuck in your throat and leaves you gasping for air… I wholeheartedly recommend giving it a try, especially if you’re looking to branch out for pieces that might be out of your traditional manga/comic comfort zone and would be curious about stories that tiptoe around the border between the real and surreal” [Nora]

A friend sent pictures of the recommended review of Oumi Konomi @snzs3 English debut FROM THIS FLAME's in the latest OTAKU USA magazine!

"[A] unique, artistically daring… collection of haunting, delicate modern fairy tales… All the stories are lovely to look at… [1/2] pic.twitter.com/S427RjNrQb

— Glacier Bay Books (@glacierbaybooks) May 29, 2022

https://twitter.com/DialHForHagai/status/1529481469109977092

From This Flame de Oumi Konomi (@snzs3), publié par Glacier Bay Books. C’est un recueil d’histoires courtes tournant beaucoup autour de l’inéluctable et du poids qu’il engendre. Oumi Konomi développe un univers très onirique qui relève plus du cauchemar que du rêve. pic.twitter.com/KZnMvJE0Pd

— Chiara 🐵🎀 (@_chiarara) April 18, 2022

It was incredible. The flow in each of the pages and the art had do much energy. It was both airy and so full of emotion

— Rico 🇩🇴 (@Tsuna1) March 12, 2022

From This Flame by Oumi Konomi

Incredibly beautiful, filled with wonderful little abstract tales about gods in the mountain and air, and some radio exercises as well. A lot of fun moody tales, excited to see if we get more of this artist. pic.twitter.com/YZklZgfikS

— Beldum (@boring_person3) March 14, 2022