{"id":1510,"date":"2007-11-01T17:25:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:03:41","slug":"mw-by-osamu-tezuka-translated-by-camellia-nieh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mw-by-osamu-tezuka-translated-by-camellia-nieh\/","title":{"rendered":"MW by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Camellia Nieh [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/MW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30180\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/MW.jpg\" alt=\"MW\" width=\"500\" height=\"670\" \/><\/a>Who knew the \u201cgodfather of manga\u201d could be this dark? When a mysterious poison gas kills the inhabitants of a Japanese island that was once home to a foreign military base, two survivors are inextricably linked by tragedy that is sealed by an illicit relationship that cannot be severed.<\/p>\n<p>The older, Garai, turns to God and takes his priestly vows. The younger, Yuki, a brilliant, charismatic, rising banker, is mired in a secret life of torturous murder. Depraved Yuki flaunts his evil-doing as he &#8220;confesses&#8221; to the tortured Garai, who can do nothing to stop him. When Yuki devises the ultimate destruction of the human race, Garai can no longer keep his bond of silence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1511\" title=\"mw\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/mw.jpg\" alt=\"mw\" width=\"128\" height=\"171\" \/>Who knew the \u201cgodfather of manga\u201d could be this dark? When a mysterious poison gas kills the inhabitants of a Japanese island that was once home to a foreign military base, two survivors are inextricably linked by tragedy that is sealed by an illicit relationship that cannot be severed.<\/p>\n<p>The older, Garai, turns to God and takes his priestly vows. The younger, Yuki, a brilliant, charismatic, rising banker, is mired in a secret life of torturous murder. Depraved Yuki flaunts his evil-doing as he  &#8220;confesses&#8221; to the tortured Garai, who can do nothing to stop him. When Yuki devises the ultimate destruction of the human race, Garai can no longer keep his bond of silence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,73,76,6535,66],"tags":[32,84,1968,6608,1831,11,13,3317,217],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-japanese","category-repost","category-translation","tag-adventure","tag-betrayal","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-camellia-nieh","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-mw","tag-osamu-tezuka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MW by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Camellia Nieh [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mw-by-osamu-tezuka-translated-by-camellia-nieh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MW by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Camellia Nieh [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who knew the \u201cgodfather of manga\u201d could be this dark? 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