{"id":1849,"date":"2007-05-01T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T17:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:54:07","slug":"ode-to-kirihito-by-osamu-tezuka-translated-by-camellia-nieh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/ode-to-kirihito-by-osamu-tezuka-translated-by-camellia-nieh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Kirihito 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\/05\/Ode-to-Kirihito.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30363\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/05\/Ode-to-Kirihito.jpg\" alt=\"Ode to Kirihito\" width=\"366\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>From the \u201cgodfather of manga\u201d \u2013 who also had a medical degree! \u2013 comes the first English translation of the mysterious story of a dedicated young doctor, Kirihito Osanai, who is initially sent to a remote Japanese village to study the effects of \u201cMonmow disease\u201d which allegedly turns human beings into dog-like beasts. Kirihito inevitably contracts the disease and becomes the unwitting victim of a corrupt medical establishment. Page-turning thriller \u2013 with lots of elegant allegory even more relevant today \u2013 that should not be missed! A big nod of thanks goes to the fabulous folks at Vertical who also brought you Tezuka\u2019s award-winning eight-volume <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2007\/01\/01\/buddha-by-osamu-tezuka\/\">Buddha<\/a> <\/em>series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1850\" title=\"ode-to-kirihito\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/04\/ode-to-kirihito.jpg\" alt=\"ode-to-kirihito\" width=\"128\" height=\"174\" \/>From the \u201cgodfather of manga\u201d \u2013 who also had a medical degree! \u2013 comes the first English translation of the mysterious story of a dedicated young doctor, Kirihito Osanai, who is initially sent to a remote Japanese village to study the effects of \u201cMonmow disease\u201d which allegedly turns human beings into dog-like beasts. Kirihito inevitably contracts the disease and becomes the unwitting victim of a corrupt medical establishment. Page-turning thriller \u2013 with lots of elegant allegory even more relevant today \u2013 that should not be missed! A big nod of thanks goes to the fabulous folks at Vertical who also brought you Tezuka\u2019s award-winning eight-volume <em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/2007\/01\/01\/buddha-by-osamu-tezuka\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buddha<\/a> <\/em>series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30363,"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":[32,84,1968,6608,1831,341,11,3394,217],"class_list":["post-1849","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-colonialism","tag-friendship","tag-ode-to-kirihito","tag-osamu-tezuka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ode to Kirihito 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\/ode-to-kirihito-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=\"Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Camellia Nieh [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the \u201cgodfather of manga\u201d \u2013 who also had a medical degree! \u2013 comes the first English translation of the mysterious story of a dedicated young doctor, Kirihito Osanai, who is initially sent to a remote Japanese village to study the effects of \u201cMonmow disease\u201d which allegedly turns human beings into dog-like beasts. 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