Ode to Kirihito (1970)

Kirihito Sanka / きりひと讃歌

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  • Manga: Ode to Kirihito
    © 1970 Osamu Tezuka, Shougakukan Inc.
    • Japanese Kirihito Sanka
      きりひと讃歌
      Type: Manga
      Status: Completed
      Published: 10.04.1970 ‑ 25.12.1971
      Volumes / Chapters: 2 / 20
      Publisher: Shougakukan Inc.
      Mangaka: Author & Illustrator
      Adapted From: Original Work
    • English Ode to Kirihito
      Status: Completed
      Published: 24.10.2006
      Volumes / Chapters: 1 / 20
      Publisher: Vertical
    • German Kirihito
      Status: Completed
      Published: 22.10.2009 ‑ 27.05.2010
      Volumes / Chapters: 3 / 20
      Publisher: Carlsen Manga
    • Synonyms: Eulogy to Kirihito

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Fresh on the heels of the Black Jack series comes this medical-themed epic about the meaning and importance of life by manga god Osamu Tezuka. Kirihito Isanai is a young doctor who, after being sent to a remote village to study the outbreak of a new disease, contracts the illness himself and becomes estranged from his friend and fiancee, who set out on a mission to uncover the medical conspiracy behind the Monmow disease.The disease changes Kirihito’s character and he begins to doubt the medical world. Now available in an affordable two-volume collection.
Klappentext:
Der junge Arzt Kirihito Osanai wird mit einer mysteriösen Krankheit konfrontiert, die in einer entfernten Gebirgsregion der Insel Shikoku ihren Ursprung zu haben scheint: Sie lässt Gesichter mutieren, erzeugt eine Gier nach rohem Fleisch und scheint Menschen in hundeähnliche Bestien zu verwandeln, bevor sie innerhalb weniger Monate sterben. Eine Rettung scheint nicht in Sicht. Kirihito versucht, hinter die Ursachen zu kommen und den Opfern zu helfen, die von der Gemeinschaft verstoßen und verfolgt werden. Eine Reise um den halben Erdball wartet auf ihn, in die Abgründe menschlicher Verhaltensweisen - mit einem medizinischen Establishment im Nacken, das Kranke nur als Versuchskaninchen betrachtet und für gute Forschungsergebnisse über Leichen geht.
Texto de presentación:
Otakuland continúa la edición de obras del imprescindible Osamu Tezuka, en este caso con Oda a Kirihito, una obra humana y muy personal, que sin llegar al nivel de Adolf o Buda, es de lectura imprescindible.

Testo della bandella:

Kirihito Osanai è un giovane medico, alle prese con una strana e misteriosa malattia che colpisce gli abitanti di Inugamisawa – un piccolo e sperduto villaggio di montagna – e il cui decorso modifica i lineamenti degli ammalati, rendendoli simili a cani o a procioni. Gli abitanti del villaggio, terrorizzati, sono persuasi che sul villaggio regni la maledizione di Monmo, uno spirito dalle sembianze canine, e chiamano la malattia morbo di Monmo; le autorità mediche sostengono ch’essa è dovuta a un virus che non si è diffuso al di fuori del villaggio a causa del suo isolamento; l’ipotesi di Kirihito è che si tratti di una endemia prodotta da agenti ambientali da indagare sul posto, e a tal scopo vi si reca. Così comincia il suo dramma umano che espone a tutti i mali della società: razzismo, vizio, arrivismo...

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