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. Riveting our attention on deformity and its acceptance like The Elephant Man by David Lynch, Ode to Kirihito examines 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. From plutocratic Taipei and racially divided South Africa to backwater Arabia and modern Osaka, ambition and desire beckon 'normal men' to behave uglier than any beast. Hinging upon his fate are those of his loved ones: an unstable childhood friend and colleague trapped between factions of the medical establishment that nurtured him a fiancee emotionally transformed by Kirihito's mysterious disappearance and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circus-act performer with volatile psychological secrets. 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. A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery.
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