Big Book Like Many of Tezuka's genious.
This may be, one of the greatest peices of literature with art of the era, I have read. Its long, deep and smart. It was written with a direction and its a trek to the end at glance (its an omnibus,most are big ie:Tomie) but the journey of the things you will see and read i. Chapter one alone will confuse you and disorent you. Some people might be sensitive to the material I'm not like that at all but its graphic, in a Mr. Magoo kind of way at times almost adding an element new readers to this kind of work will either hate or enjoy. Ito does very good realistic work, for reasons Osamu goes middle ground;less so in this than earlier work, Human Insect's.
Came damaged to hell, i fixed it rebound it with PVA Ph and hard work. Took 45min, I have the hardcover in Japanese but this reviews for English ver.
If anyone wants to know how to say the title. In Japan, it sounds like 'Moo' or "mu" I have heard said in New York.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020
This may be, one of the greatest peices of literature with art of the era, I have read. Its long, deep and smart. It was written with a direction and its a trek to the end at glance (its an omnibus,most are big ie:Tomie) but the journey of the things you will see and read i. Chapter one alone will confuse you and disorent you. Some people might be sensitive to the material I'm not like that at all but its graphic, in a Mr. Magoo kind of way at times almost adding an element new readers to this kind of work will either hate or enjoy. Ito does very good realistic work, for reasons Osamu goes middle ground;less so in this than earlier work, Human Insect's.
Came damaged to hell, i fixed it rebound it with PVA Ph and hard work. Took 45min, I have the hardcover in Japanese but this reviews for English ver.
If anyone wants to know how to say the title. In Japan, it sounds like 'Moo' or "mu" I have heard said in New York.
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By Kojima on January 21, 2020
Big Book Like Many of Tezuka's genious.By Kojima on January 21, 2020
This may be, one of the greatest peices of literature with art of the era, I have read. Its long, deep and smart. It was written with a direction and its a trek to the end at glance (its an omnibus,most are big ie:Tomie) but the journey of the things you will see and read i. Chapter one alone will confuse you and disorent you. Some people might be sensitive to the material I'm not like that at all but its graphic, in a Mr. Magoo kind of way at times almost adding an element new readers to this kind of work will either hate or enjoy. Ito does very good realistic work, for reasons Osamu goes middle ground;less so in this than earlier work, Human Insect's.
Came damaged to hell, i fixed it rebound it with PVA Ph and hard work. Took 45min, I have the hardcover in Japanese but this reviews for English ver.
If anyone wants to know how to say the title. In Japan, it sounds like 'Moo' or "mu" I have heard said in New York.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2007
What happened to the rest of the gas? (The cover-up has of course been enormous.) And what will Garai and Yuki (now, respectively, a Catholic priest and a loan executive at a Tokyo bank) do about it? Garai is haunted by his memory of the dead, and Yuki is simply a madman: he inhaled some of the gas, which gives him occasional attacks of bad health, but worse, it warped his brain, robbing him of every speck o conscience, so that he takes great joy in using, kidnapping, torturing and killing people. We find out his reason--just as insane as the acts themselves--in the second third of the manga. Yuki always confesses his crimes to Father Garai, who--and we don't understand why, at first-- never tells on him.
Yuki and Garai have (since when?) an uneasy homosexual relationship (Yuki is Tezuka's only true homosexual main character). It's very hard to hate our arch-villain Yuki: he's cute as a button , very smart, has a great sense of humor, and really loves Garai (although he loves nobody else on earth). Garai--until the second part of the manga, when he begins to develop a backbone--is a rather poor creature, although he's a big, handsome fellow, not being able to honestly follow any part of his heart. But it must be difficult to be in love with God and a sociopath at the same time. He lies to his father confessor, the police, Yuki, and himself. Of course Yuki lies to evrybody.
There are many fascinating characters in this manga: the reporter to whom Garai finally tells the story of the island, the public prosecuto0r, who has a face like a misshapen dinner plate, but whose brain is in fine order, Yuki's brother, an onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki theater), who looks as much like Yuki as the second pea in a pod. Mistaken identity is common in Kabuki; it occurs here too. Some of Tezuka's best drawing is here--the faces of the dead in the reporter's article, Yuki's disquisition on...Garai's day. There is all you could wish for of political corruption, self-sacrifice, ugly violence, sadness, humor, anger, and occasional very kinky sex (which I have not mentioned). The ending is worthy of the darkest Hitchcock.
The translation (from the French I read) is occasionally disappointing, The French is softer in tone, but--is the French, or the English closer to the original Japanese? I don't know. Sometimes the drawing is too stark. (It'a 30 years since the serialization....what are we looking at?) Perhaps ....an "18+"would be more appropriate than a "l6+" as a rating. The sex is not explicit, nor is the plot just an excuse for it, but a few scenes would be shocking to some, and there is the occasional use of the right word in the wrong place at the wrong time (being used to American films, this really surprised me). I wouldn't want to keep anyone from reading it, but more conservative human beings might see the equivalent of an "X"-----and think, "I think I'll sit this one out."
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"Astro Boy" it ain't...or "Black Jack"...or even "Ode to Kirihito."
By Julie Vognar on October 30, 2007
This is the story of the two survivors of an "accident." In the early `60s, the United States stashed away on a tiny Japanese island, with Japanese cooperation, of course, some deadly gas (Tezuka calls it "MW,"--hence the title)--we really did---but in Tezuka's manga some leaks out, killing all 800 inhabitants of the island. The survivors, Iwao Garai, 15, and Michio Yuki, 9, are protected from the gas because they are sheltered in a cave. When they come out the next morning, it is to an island of the dead: men, women, children, birds and beasts--every sentient being. The gekiga (a manga for adults, which MW is, in spades) tells us about the rest of their lives, (almost...) beginning 15 years later. We find out about the events on the island in flashbacks.By Julie Vognar on October 30, 2007
What happened to the rest of the gas? (The cover-up has of course been enormous.) And what will Garai and Yuki (now, respectively, a Catholic priest and a loan executive at a Tokyo bank) do about it? Garai is haunted by his memory of the dead, and Yuki is simply a madman: he inhaled some of the gas, which gives him occasional attacks of bad health, but worse, it warped his brain, robbing him of every speck o conscience, so that he takes great joy in using, kidnapping, torturing and killing people. We find out his reason--just as insane as the acts themselves--in the second third of the manga. Yuki always confesses his crimes to Father Garai, who--and we don't understand why, at first-- never tells on him.
Yuki and Garai have (since when?) an uneasy homosexual relationship (Yuki is Tezuka's only true homosexual main character). It's very hard to hate our arch-villain Yuki: he's cute as a button , very smart, has a great sense of humor, and really loves Garai (although he loves nobody else on earth). Garai--until the second part of the manga, when he begins to develop a backbone--is a rather poor creature, although he's a big, handsome fellow, not being able to honestly follow any part of his heart. But it must be difficult to be in love with God and a sociopath at the same time. He lies to his father confessor, the police, Yuki, and himself. Of course Yuki lies to evrybody.
There are many fascinating characters in this manga: the reporter to whom Garai finally tells the story of the island, the public prosecuto0r, who has a face like a misshapen dinner plate, but whose brain is in fine order, Yuki's brother, an onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki theater), who looks as much like Yuki as the second pea in a pod. Mistaken identity is common in Kabuki; it occurs here too. Some of Tezuka's best drawing is here--the faces of the dead in the reporter's article, Yuki's disquisition on...Garai's day. There is all you could wish for of political corruption, self-sacrifice, ugly violence, sadness, humor, anger, and occasional very kinky sex (which I have not mentioned). The ending is worthy of the darkest Hitchcock.
The translation (from the French I read) is occasionally disappointing, The French is softer in tone, but--is the French, or the English closer to the original Japanese? I don't know. Sometimes the drawing is too stark. (It'a 30 years since the serialization....what are we looking at?) Perhaps ....an "18+"would be more appropriate than a "l6+" as a rating. The sex is not explicit, nor is the plot just an excuse for it, but a few scenes would be shocking to some, and there is the occasional use of the right word in the wrong place at the wrong time (being used to American films, this really surprised me). I wouldn't want to keep anyone from reading it, but more conservative human beings might see the equivalent of an "X"-----and think, "I think I'll sit this one out."
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