Fumio Obata 
Just So Happens 

’I still remember arriving in the city for the first time… It wasn’t easy… But here, London, is my home.’Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident.Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death and confronting a decision she hadn t expected to have to make.Just So Happens is a graphic novel by a young artist and storyteller of rare talent. Fumio Obata s drawing, in particular, is marvellous in its power and delicacy.