Hope... is there?





story of "Hope"





In the piece, a male tattooed torso holds himself lost in his thought. On the back, there is a male character inspired by the famous boys’ manga Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac (聖闘士星矢), who is an idealised and fantasized version of the torso. In the speech balloons on the right arm and on the back, this character says "Th...this is … reality?!” and “(Is there any) Hope?". On the bottom of the hip, Japanese katakana characters are used as onomatopoeia (words that phonetically imitate or suggest the sound that they describe): "go, go, go, go, go, go" like the rumble of the Earth. This male Manga character is in process of transforming himself into a superhero with superpowers thanks to his bracelet. Armed with a light sword on his left arm, he is looking straight-forwardly at nuclear radiations willing to fight them…