World Map Room

Minimalist in story, dialogue and visuals, this is a deliberately flat story that emphasizes the drawing of the city and geometrical shapes, all else being muted. The characters are vaguely futuristic and also bored with all they see in a tour of a city.

Yuichi Yokoyama's World Map Room is a droll, minimalist satire of manga (Japanese comic books) which focuses on three geometrically-stylish young punks who arrive in a big, geometrically stylish city and proceed to make their way to a big, indoor, geometrically stylish garden, where they are expected for a an important meeting whose import is never revealed. Along the way, our three monotone heroes discuss the frequency of low-flying airplanes, the unfriendliness of the city's residents, flip through a few uninteresting books, don't mind having an afternoon drink, ride on a boat, watch a bunch of cars come out of a factory, and gather around an artificial lake to look at a ship that is sunk at its bottom.

The jacket blurb for this is something like "Guys come to a city. They watch planes taking off and cross a river.