A beautiful meditation on love and loss
December 16, 2020 - 10:39am EST
One life lesson you learn quickly is that growing up kind of sucks. Sure, the freedom that comes with becoming an adult is nice, but the downsides are plentiful. The aches and pains that come as you get older. The bills that pile up week after week. And perhaps, most crushingly, the existential dread of trying to figure out what to do with your life. It's certainly something I have dealt with, and a lesson that can be seen in When The Past Was Around. Mojiken's graphic adventure is a slice of life story that recognizes that lessons are learned all the time, and some of them can be quite painful.