Comments of Tableau Numero 20

The one about the painting and the one with the old dudes was amazing. Rest was mush.

8.5 12/2021 Ch long oneshot

Wow
This is art. A masterpiece

Ever since he discovered the rough sketch for a lost painting by the 19th century French artist Maurice Olivier in a library book, a modern-day art expert, also named Maurice, has yearned to see the actual painting. Is it the work of art he's in love with or its mysterious subject?

I've read this before. Oml I finally found it again

apparently great author

Ever since he discovered the rough sketch for a lost painting by the 19th century French artist Maurice Olivier in a library book, a modern-day art expert, also named Maurice, has yearned to see the actual painting. Is it the work of art he's in love with or its mysterious subject?

This was sublime, I'm going to read all of author works, this put me in such a good mood and I live for it

girl i don’t even know what to say

i wish there was more to read about it

So refreshing. Well done. Don’t know why I waited so long to read it. Kept passing it up. How silly.
2020.01

Good stories

Seriously mantep bgt ini! Emg agak creepy kalo dibayangin bener. Tapi mantep juga kalau gambar cowo cantik idaman que bisa jadi nyata wkwk. But yes....this is super good.

I have to say, Esuto Emu is one of the most interesting authors in manga-dom ! The art isn't extravagant and what I would call "minimalist". But the stories are superb ! They are for a mature audience that has all their brain cells intact. lol ! Loved it !

I liked the first and the story about the old man in the park(4th I think). Est Em has such unique style in art and plot. Sometimes I like, sometimes not. But to be unique is worth at least 3 stars every time :)

Really great story.

The one about the old man waiting in the park...so sad yet so warm...

Interesting stories and unique art style.

One 80-page story, followed by three additional shorts, ranging from 25 to 40-ish pages each. All of them are exemplary (ignoring for the moment the quick oneshots at the end which really don't add much).

The first (longer) one is about an art restorer who is asked to work on a strange portrait that had been thought lost but was recently discovered - a picture he has been obsessed with for years. Thanks to a magical-realist conceit, he meets the subject of the painting and unravels a centuries-old mystery. This story blew me away, partially because it is, objectively, perfectly constructed, and partially because it tickles my love of art history and sordid historical mysteries. It is perfect: well-written, spacio-temporally nuanced, and melancholic. This can be said of all the remaining stories as well (two men whose relationship is told through the guiding metaphor of a carousel; a flamenco dancer's tumultuous relationship with the man who plays guitar for him at a seedy tourist trap; an old man waiting for his lover on a park bench for decades). All in all, I was blown away by this collection of tales, all of which are distinct from one another and, as is usual for this mangaka, beautifully bound up with historical details that lend weight to her exquisitely written, realistic stories. No rape/dubcon