Tegneserie - graphic novel. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm in arm with death. An adaptation into a manga of Osamu Dazai's autobiographical novel "Ningen shikkaku" (1948).