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Egg Stand (1984) / Demian (1919)

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Hagio Moto's Egg Stand (1984)

After seeing the Demian reference in this one shot, I knew I had to translate this. And with the help of my friends with good taste, CiceroCiceronis and shielshi, we present you a movie-like story by Hagio.

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This manga was published in Hagio's Houmonsha (訪問者, 1995) bunkoban volume.

Special thanks to Box Head Idiot, who gave me the chance to translate this beautiful story. I hope Hagio fans out there aren't missing their scanlations on MD!

PS. Egg stand received a stage play in 2017. You can read about it here:

3月に上演される、スタジオライフ「エッグ・スタンド」の製作発表記者会見が、昨日2月7日に都内にて行われた。

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Hagio Moto's Egg Stand

I wanted to get Hagio's Houmonsha (訪問者) one shot collection off my reading list, and read this one shot, Egg Stand (エッグ・スタンド) yesterday. This 100-page one shot was first published in Petit Flower's 1984 March issue. It tells the story of a young orphan boy (Raoul), a dancer girl (Louise) and an activist who's part of the French Resistance movement (Marchand) in an occupied Paris.

I cheated and read the French version (Le coquetier) published in the second volume of Hagio's collected works, De l'humain. This actually kind of added to the story, considering that it takes place in France... Anyway... Egg Stand was quite a depressing story on the worth of life and meaning of death, while terrible stuff happens to another Hagio bishounen. I enjoyed reading a serious, historical work by her.

The page I posted above is a reference to Hermann Hesse's Demian and the chick-egg allegory there. Let's refresh our minds:

“If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born.”

This where the main theme of the story comes from: If a chick dies inside its egg without hatching, does it even know it was alive? Does it realize it's dying? What do people feel as they die? What do people feel as they kill others? The chick's world is inside of the shell, and it lives and dies without ever seeing what's outside... Are we not the same? Do we actually break our shells as we "live"? If you don't, can you still call it "living"? Are we dead inside our shells, or are we really alive? While the whole drama might feel like every other WW2 movie, this one shot leaves you with all these questions, and thus is worth reading. I am weak for literary references in manga.