He Lost His Keys in Space
£16.49
Crybaby Mermaid
Sale price
£11.99
Regular price
£15.99
Skip to product information
Crybaby Mermaid
Illustrated Memoir of Yuumi Uotani
Sale price
£11.99
Regular price
£15.99
Out of stock
The Crybaby Mermaid: An Illustrated Memoir of Yuumi Uotani is about the quiet difficulty of continuing when doubt never fully disappears. It follows Yumi Uotani, a professional mahjong player, through the uncertain early years of a public career, where each setback lingers, each success feels temporary, and the question of whether she truly belongs never quite goes away.
Rather than a story of sudden breakthrough, the story focuses on the emotional weight of performance: the pressure of expectations, the anxiety that follows setbacks, and the quiet effort required to continue despite uncertainty. Uotani’s progress unfolds through everyday moments of practice, reflection, and gradual change, presenting achievement as something built over time rather than defined by sudden success.
Rendered in a restrained visual style that lingers on expression and silence, this is a portrait of a working life built in increments, and of the fragile, ongoing work of learning to stand in a role that still feels uncertain. Together, Suda and Junta create a character-driven account of how confidence develops slowly, and how a professional identity emerges through endurance, self-awareness, and time.
Yoshiki Suda is a Japanese writer and manga original author whose work focuses on character-driven stories drawn from real lives and contemporary professional experience. A graduate of the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering, he began his career writing essays and serialized nonfiction about personal identity, career pressure, and the emotional realities behind public achievement.
His best-known work, The Crybaby Mermaid: An Illustrated Memoir of Yumi Uotani, follows professional player Yumi Uotani as she faces self-doubt and performance pressure while gradually building confidence and emotional resilience in a demanding profession.
Suda’s work takes a documentary-style approach to personal experience, focusing on how people handle expectations, setbacks, and the slow process of inner growth behind visible success. His stories explore the private effort and adjustment required to sustain a career under modern professional and social pressures.
- ISBN-13
- 9781969071065
- Publisher
- Mahjong Pros
- Imprint
- Mahjong Pros
- Publication date
- 25 August 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 212
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 mm
- Language
- English
