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...book begins as Kirihito (which means "Christ" in Japanese), a brilliant doctor, visits a remote village to investigate the cause of monmow disease, a disorder that slowly twists its victim's features into that of a dog, eventually killing them. But when Kirihito himself contracts the disease, his world is turned upside down. Erased from the rolls of his hospital by an ambitious boss who sees Kirihito's work as a threat, Kirihito finds himself a total outcast and put on display in a private freak show for a group of decadent patrons. As Kirihito struggles for his freedom...
...Urabe has a melt down in 'Ode to Kirihito...
Tezuka creates a devestating portrait of corrupting ambition as Kirihito's boss rises to power by exploiting victims of monmow disease. But the storyline that follows Kirihito's former colleague, Dr. Urabe, may be the most disturbing to Western audiences. While searching for the true cause of monmow disease Urabe struggles with his own predilections as a sexual predator. Ode to Kirihito has plenty of stunningly sadistic moments - including a giant snake consuming a baby for the pleasure of an audience - but the gratuitous scenes of rape, often followed by the victim's falling in love with the victimizer, will...
...always, Tezuka provides a master class in graphical storytelling. Mercifully printed in left to right format, Ode to Kirihito has many stunning sequences, including one where Dr. Urabe begins going mad. His body disappears and a wedge cleaves his head in two in a psychedelic sequence that wouldn't be out of place in a drug film of the same era. (Kirihito was originally serialized in 1970.) The design of Tezuka's pages endlessly varies in shape and flow to reflect the action of a sequence or a character's state of mind. He never shies away from crazy experimentation...
...most complex book we have yet seen from Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Kirihito uses the core elements of any good horror story, fear, madness, disease and sadism, to explore morals and the broad consequences of an individual's actions. So whether you like your scary stories to be sophisticated like Kirihito, traditional like Museum of Terror, or rude like Octopus Girl, you won't lack for material this Halloween...