Talk to My Back (しんきらり, Shin Kirari, Flash of Light[1]) is a 1980s manga series by Murasaki Yamada,[a] serialized in Garo and published in Japanese by Seirindō [ja; fr].
[3] The original Japanese title is a coinage created by poet Yūko Kawano [ja][1] Yamada had shortly beforehand started the process of separating from her then-husband as Talk to My Back was about to serialize.
[4] The image used as the cover for book releases had Seiichi Hayashi do the Japanese calligraphy and Shinbō Minami [ja] do the design work.
[7] Rachel Cooke of The Guardian wrote that "At moments, it’s almost as if Murasaki has set out to fictionalise Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique.
[8] Publishers Weekly stated that the drawings are "so overly spare", citing the "loosely sketched gestural action" and how not all facial features are always drawn.