![]() The Father of Manga, is widely credited for laying the foundations for much, if not most, of modern Japanese comics and animation. ![]() 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. Osamu Tezuka (NovemFebruary 8, 1989), a.k.a. 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 fiancée emotionally transformed by Kirihito's mysterious disappearance and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circus-act performer with volatile psychological secrets.įrom 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. 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. Osamu Tezuka (1928-89) is the godfather of Japanese manga comics. It's psychologically complex, dealing not just with Kirihito's experience with Monmow Disease, but also his friend Doctor Urabe's psychosis and deterioration without Kirihito around to help keep him grounded. A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. Ode to Kirihito is a work by Osamu Tezuka with a genre bent that's rather difficult to describe. ![]()
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