Elle s'appelait Tomoji #[nn]

A young woman sits quietly on a grassy hillside, gazing out toward a sweeping landscape of fields and a distant mountain beneath a pale, bird-dotted sky — Jiro Taniguchi's cover art immediately conveys a sense of contemplative stillness and deep connection to the land. Published by Rue de Sèvres in 2015, Elle s'appelait Tomoji showcases Taniguchi's signature watercolor-inflected linework, where the natural world feels both vast and intimate. A genuinely beautiful volume for anyone drawn to thoughtful, quietly powerful manga storytelling.