Excellent book. My first of this year -and I hope, of many more to come.-I have considered myself an otaku-wannabe for a while, but after reading this book, I realized that it was a huge joke. Otakus are seriously into it. It is not a mere hobby. I am more of a manga-wota; Johnny-wota.This encyclope...
I can honestly say that I have no idea how the heck this book was the manga that ‘started’ the shounen manga or inspired manga artists with their successful shounen series such as Dragon Ball. This manga is just kinda out there that I have absolutely no idea how I was going to rate this. First off...
I'd never read any Osamu Tezuka before, but we went to see the ballet, TeZuKa, at the Saddlers Wells Theatre earlier this week. An interesting mix of story telling, ballet and martial arts. Before the ballet was a talk by Helen McCarthy on Tezuka's life and works which was very interesting, but also...
Another great volume, although not the best ever. Zolomon's Jewels is long and CRAZY, which is wonderful, and late enough that it shows Tezuka starting on some of the graphic experiments that he would go crazy with in his more adult, 1970's works. Also, The Lying Robot is a great examination of Tezu...
Another great volume, although not the best ever. Zolomon's Jewels is long and CRAZY, which is wonderful, and late enough that it shows Tezuka starting on some of the graphic experiments that he would go crazy with in his more adult, 1970's works. Also, The Lying Robot is a great examination of Tezu...
It feels good to come back to Astro Boy after about a year--the series will probably always remind me of fall and winter now.This volume has a lot of crazy stuff going on, but isn't full of quite as interesting character work or social commentary as usual. Also, for some reason there aren't any of T...
This volume is sort of all over the place, but it's still great fun. It also has one of the earliest Astro Boy stories to show up yet in these books.That early one is also interesting because it has some of the basic overtness of a heavy-handed drug story, except that the drug makes people dance con...
This is the middle part of a longer story, so I'll save a full review for the next volume, but... man, is this good. This final Astro Boy story manages to be extremely touching. There are always emotional and allegorical undercurrents to the series, but here a lot of that comes out in the open, and ...
In the previous volumes, there isn't a single story long enough to fill one book, but suddenly with Volume 6 we get the beginning of one that takes up this volume, the next, and most of the one after that. It's actually the final Astro Boy story that Tezuka ever did (and no, I don't understand the o...
Man, oh man, more Astro Boy goodness. This volume starts right off with a story about slave labor (featuring Satan!... sort of). But, like all Astro Boy stories, it wraps its allegory in cartoony images, fantastical settings, and a lot of action. This story involves a lot of fairytale images, and if...
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