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[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: Takeshi Kitano, the man who inspired the bestselling book "Saga no Habai-chan" (Saga's Old Lady), and Shimada Yôshichi's best friend. What is their unknown relationship? ...... From their first encounter as rookies, through the manzai boom, to their days at the top, to the Friday Incident, to the motorcycle accident, to their disappointment, to their resurrection......, this is a story of 25 years of friendship between two people who ...
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Really laid back, but I had a pretty good time. I've always liked media that allows for seeing ordinary people leading essentially mundane lives. Their stories are meaningful. And what we have here really is just a loose collection of anecdotes about growing up in poverty post-WW2, living with grandma. It starts pretty sad, considering it's nonfiction, but they soon become just sort of lightly touching. There's nothing that keeps you in suspense, yet I got on with it better and better over time and just found the whole thing pleasant.
As language learning material it has its quirks, but overall feels like a good early book. Grammar is relatively simple, though I took a little time to adjust to the way it's written because it feels a little more conversational than the detached style of narration of other books I've read. It helps on the psychological side that chapters are short and the pages actually include a lot of blank space with many breaks for tiny paragraphs or short bits of dialog. If a big page of text in Japanese still intimates you at all, it's a nice little boost.
The rough sides I see come in 2 parts. The first is Saga dialect. It's a less common one and since I'm doing much more close reading of other material, I opted to not really try to learn it right now. Conversations aren't too hard to intuit without looking deeply into it, but it does lead to some pretty frequent word/conjugation substitutions. The other problem is that the book's difficulty, inasmuch as it has it, is pretty frontloaded. The prologue dumps a lot of economic terms, and I found the chapters immediately following to be a little heavy on words I didn't know when describing his new living circumstances or referencing somewhat traditional Japanese tools. Still, relatively speaking, I think it's not too hard.