Tôkyô est mon jardin - Précédé de Love Hotel

In this slender 2018 volume from Casterman, French cartoonist Frédéric Boilet presents two linked manga-influenced stories set in Japan: the titular Tôkyô est mon jardin, a meditation on urban solitude and connection, and the earlier Love Hotel. Boilet’s delicate, cinematic linework and intimate observation of Tokyo’s transient spaces mark this as a key work in the "nouvelle manga" movement he helped define. Though just a single issue, it distills the cross-cultural sensibility that makes his oeuvre quietly essential.