50 Powerful Illustrations By Japanese Artist That Will Make You Think

Feeling like your batteries have worn out.

Wanting to make everyone happy. I’ve felt that

Your lifes s**t but online u look like a real winner

This just makes me want to cry...

Time is killing us slowly

This is what depression is like to me.

Look at the shadow... it seems that his own chipped parts are casting that chipping shadow. Maby it meens that we are our greatest enemies. I know that I can be great... as long as I trust myself. On other hand, when I am insecure, I am dumb as hell 😉😎

Awww...I irrationally hope they get to meet again!

Oh god me as a boy... Coffee

Welcome to the machine

life's greatest pleasure!

The different interpretations of this are fascinating....

Feeling like someone is cutting the strings that hold you up.

Sometime darkness will be your best friend

This illustration is more poetic than much of the artwork that is out there today.

Amazing - this is one of the few illustrations that exactly sums up how my depression feels to me

a sheltered and restricted child being lured out of their cage and safety by someone taking advantage of their innocence

Those trowing the darts are wearing their own masks as well

We reap what we sow

Hedwig, why!?!?

Wanting to preserve your childhood

Sometimes you need to let go all you have just to be with someone

Hoping for the parents you never had. Wanting a complete family...

having to use yourself to keep others happy

temporary freedom

Trying to find yourself!

drained

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes

Orchestrated death

childhood trauma

Surrounded by a bunch of airheads?

Such a big heart with no one to love..

Darkness will clnsume you even if you're grasping at your last bit of light.

Again, time is deadly

This says to me "So many things that want to plug into you. To use your energy and lifeforce, and drain you." Perhaps referring also to the electronics and devices that seem to consume our lives, in this illustration, quite literally.

when life has no more meaning after you finish reading a good book

Be patient when helping someone who's struggling to adapt. (There's enough yarn)

Kill them with kindness

Feeling like no matter what move you make, it will not end well

I may be looking way too deep into these but heres what i thought: The flower could be repesenting love and the picking of the petals could be playing on that whole "he loves me, he loves me not" rhyme sooo it could be representing a broken heart and the more times the person's heart was broken the more desensitised the person became, leading on to become a doll which is made of plastic and emotionless...?

there are multiple doors waiting to be opened by you in this tree of life

Loneliness to the point of imagining they're there...

Paint on a smile, and pretend you aren't depressed.

The night owl. Or insomnia, depending on how early you have to get up in the morning.

wanting the perfect child

I'm fine, really

People are slowly chipping away at you, then they leave behind you and their tools of distruction

sure, life experiences will kill you slowly, but surely

This is kind of what depression is like.. you try to stop crying but there isn’t really a reason for it., it makes sense to me

there is a plethora of emotions trying to burst out but you bottle them up inside a cage

Listen to your heart

Comfort food? ...or is it too obvious?

Feeling like everyone's watching and judging you

this is me waking up going to work

locking your emotions

this reminded me of the book "The Kite Runner", pomegranates are a symbol of life

In this together

I believe this shows how our constant destruction of others will only lead to our own destruction.

When we see the ballerina dance, we only see the beauty and gracefulness of her dance. We never thought of the harships she had gone through to perfect her moves. The anching feet for one. Beauty comes with a price.

your parents controlling you to do what they want you to do

Work is draining your soul, creativity, imagination, aspirations.....

That's a lot of bread.

Fit into society's impossible molds

Life is a choice. There’s an easy way out (exit door on the right). To end it once and for all(the noose). Or the journey may be long and high, but it’s the light at the end.

Sometimes the rain is fruitful.

Yeah, this is grad school too.