Murakami is just a more literary version of those boomer newspaper comics about how much they hate their wives and how all women are mysterious aliens from othe

Murakami is just a more literary version of those boomer newspaper comics about how much they hate their wives and how all women are mysterious aliens from other planets. (Exception for Hard-boiled Wonderland, which doesn't have enough women to be weird, and also was accidentally plagiarized or something by the nearly identical anime Haibane Renmei.) His backstory of just deciding to open a jazz club in Tokyo as a college undergrad is… a lot more possible in Japan than the US, but is still a pretty boomer life story. Strangely, this doesn't stop people from assuming he's going to win a Nobel someday.