‘Japan Spettacularis’, reportage under the guidance of Marco Togni in manga ‘format’

“With this book I want to surprise you, showing you some of the most spectacular things I have discovered in almost twenty years! If you have already been to Japan you will be homesick and every page you will exclaim: ‘Incredible, I did not know this!’ and you will not wait to return here. If, on the other hand, Japan is still a dream for you, with this book you will feel like you are traveling and I am sure that you will soon come to see everything with your own eyes “. Born in Trento, born in 1986, Marco Togni, youtuber, writer, blogger, professional photographer and great expert of the Rising Sun, speaks to readers in the very first lines of his new book ‘Japan Spettacularis’ to infect them with love for a land he now knows deeply. Arrived there for a pleasure trip at the end, after a not exciting first impact, he was seduced by it. “What is the meaning of your life? The reason why you get up every morning? In a word: ikigai. According to the Japanese – says Togni in the volume – we all have one or even more ikigai, even if we are not always fully aware of it. Yet the key to happiness lies precisely in this concept, the secret of a long and happy life. This is demonstrated by the Japanese elderly, who even retiring never stop, continue to get up every day with ‘their own ikigai’: a purpose , something to keep them busy. ” And, reading ‘Japan Spettacularis’ it seems that one of the writer’s ikigai is precisely bringing to light an unpublished Japan. In fact, between the pages runs an intense reportage under the guidance of a Marco Togni in manga ‘format’, dedicated both to those who want to live a nostalgic amarcord of the Japanese experience through the places they have loved most, but also to all those who they have never visited Japan, and they want to find out all about this country. “Did you know that you can sleep in a temple and live the monastic experience? Do you know the difference between manga and anime? Did you know that there is an ice aquarium and a parasite museum? And that a myriad of people, smiles, looks and lives do meet and then disperse under the light of the advertising billboards at the Shibuya intersection? “, thus intrigues the reader Marco Togni, author of ‘Japanese Instant’ (Gribaudo 2018) and now followed by hundreds of thousands of people on social networks (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok), while its website www.marcotogni.it is already number 1 in Italy for Japan.