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Credits

Writer: Osamu Tezuka; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Vertical

EW PICK

After contracting ''Monmow Disease,'' which turns people into werewolf-like beasts, a doctor travels from decadent Japanese palaces to South African slums seeking a cure in Osamu Tezuka's Ode to Kirihito.

For Fans of...
Medical thrillers and gekiga-style art.

Does It Deliver?
This dark epic with oddball elements (a dancer performs something called ''the human tempura'') is a smart, redemptive, and nicely bizarre study of human nature.


 

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