![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. Translated by Camellia Nieh Graphic Novel / Manga New Paperback Editions for 2010 Part One: 978-1-93, 480 pages U.S.14.95 / CAN18.95. 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. ![]() Osanai Kirihito, a medical doctor at a large university hospital, tr. ![]() 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. Kirihito Osanai is a young doctor whos just been introduced to the Monmow disease, which transforms humans into dog-like beasts and kills them within a month of the metamorphosis. Read 22 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]()
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