Sunny (VIZ Media English edition) (2013)

The children of the Star Kids home, a mix of group home and orphanage, escape their lives by climbing into the Sunny, a broken-down old car on the front lawn, and imagining they are going anywhere else. Matsumoto has said the series is not autobiographical but that parts are close to his own experience, and it shows in how exactly he draws a child's sulks, small cruelties and sudden bursts of joy. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2016. Viz published all six volumes in English from 2013 to 2016. Slow and episodic, it is his most personal work and a strong case for his finest; start here if you want feeling before spectacle.