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...horror genre. Three outstanding recent releases range in style from a twist on the teenagers-in-peril subgenre (Junji Ito's Museum of Terror) to extreme gross-out humor (Toru Yamazaki's Octopus Girl) to a disturbing medical thriller by Japan's most revered comix creator (Osamu Tezuka's Ode to Kirihito...
...those interested in a classier package and more novelistic read, Vertical, Inc., publisher of the Buddha series by revered manga author Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), has just released his single volume Ode to Kirihito (825 pages; $25). Best known for his stories on themes of the power of love and karmic justice, here Tezuka has created a sophisticated medical horror story, with so much perversity that it may permanently change the master's American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems...
...Urabe has a melt down in 'Ode to Kirihito...
...Eastern studies, Nelson T. Greaves ’10, and Kristina A. Dominguez ’10 also get big laughs.But sometimes caricature backfires. Emerson senior Sara Collins’ Val, the clear-eyed, self-indulgent cynic, sings “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three,” an ode to career advancement via plastic surgery. The more honest title for the song would be “Tits and Ass,” a phrase Collins sings over and over again with annoying self-satisfaction. There were other, similar missteps, when cast members seem too proud of the joke...
...Lucia), and those moments of revelation that we will never get back (i.e. “Her name’s Alex?! That’s Rousseau’s daughter!”). The second season of “Lost” was a televised ode to innocence; Let us celebrate that via DVD. Even though I despised every moment of your screen-time…Michelle Rodriguez, this one’s for you… TAKE A SHOT WHEN... Desmond says “brother” to someone who is not actually his brother...