Tezuka blends many fantastic elements into this saga that pushes readers to fly through this book. Kirihito is not the only one who has become suspect of Tatsugaura’s integrity and lust for power. He will give up everything he has and loved and lose all he has accomplished, but he is determined to enact his vengeance upon Dr. Kirihito sets out to return, but his journey will be long, challenging, and filled with heartache and tragedy.

Shortly after arriving, he too contracts the disease, but not without discovering the cause and realizing that he was purposely sent there in hopes that he would never come back. Tatsugaura, about the cause of the disease, Kirihito is sent packing to a remote Japanese village to verify his findings. When young Doctor Kirihito Osanai officially contradicts the medical opinion of his mentor, Dr. In a Japanese hospital, doctors scour as they try to discover the cause and the cure of the Monmow Disease, a degenerative change that causes humans to take on animalistic features like fur and elongated muzzles. Tezuka’s Ode to Kirihito has been translated into English and bound in a 800-page-plus trade paperback that readers will thoroughly enjoy.

His more famous series include Buddha and Akira, both spanning thousands of pages and still sold today. From plutocratic Taipei and apartheid South Africa to backwater Syria and metropolitan Osaka, ambition and desire beckon 'normal men' to behave uglier than any beast as we examine the true worth of human beings through and beyond appearances.Known as the “godfather of manga,” Osamu Tezuka has drawn tens of thousands of panels in manga form that fans all over the world have viciously devoured.

While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Said to have been the personal favorite of the artist, who held a degree in medicine, and surprisingly attentive to Christian themes and imagery, Ode to Kirihito demolishes naive notions about human nature and health and likely preconceptions about the comics master himself.Ī promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest epidemiological mystery. Yet Monmow Disease, a life-threatening condition that transforms a person into a dog-like beast, is not the only villain in this shocking triumph of a medical thriller by manga-god Osamu Tezuka. Print Ode to Kirihito - New Omnibus Edition

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