Incorporating elements of the often lurid and adult-oriented gekiga style for the first time, Tezuka entered into his fruitful late period with this work. From pregnant vistas of the Japanese countryside to closed rooms full of sin and redemption, Tezuka astounds for more than eight hundred continuous pages, his art in turn easefully concise and flamboyantly experimental, his inquiry into our most repugnant instincts and prospects for overcoming them unflinchingly serious. 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. Ode to Kirihito is a work by Osamu Tezuka with a genre bent thats rather difficult to describe. 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. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
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