All for Nothing: After every horrible thing Tatsugaura did for a chance to be elected as the head of the Japanese Medical Association, he actually does get it but he immediately catches Monmow, gets booted from the position as a result, and dies soon after.Osanai Kirihito" a bit too much of a mouthful. Dog-not out of any disrespect, but because they find "Dr. Affectionate/ Embarrassing Nickname: The residents of the Syrian village Kirihito finally settles down in almost unanimously call him Dr.And don't forget to tell them it was written by the same guy who made Astro Boy. Suggest it to friends who dismiss comics as all being something for kids. Ode to Kirihito is one of those "artsy" manga, dealing heavily with substantive issues in a medium where even today this kind of introspection is unusual. Suffice to say, there's a lot of stuff going on here. And Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes? Prepare to be shocked by how many are used here. There's a deep religious angle as Helen Friese, a nun, is struck with the disease and must come to terms with her identity before God when she appears to the world as a monster. It deals heavily with medical politics and intrigue as Tatsagura, their boss, tries to work his way into being elected president of the Japanese Medical Association. It's psychologically complex, dealing not just with Kirihito's experience with Monmow Disease, but also his friend Doctor Urabe's psychosis and deterioration without Kirihito around to help keep him grounded. Ode to Kirihito is a work by Osamu Tezuka with a genre bent that's rather difficult to describe. But it turns out that he's in for an experience which is most certainly not what he was expecting. Young aspiring doctor Kirihito volunteers to go into Tokushima village to investigate this disease and, he hopes, come up with an explanation for its origin. The patient's bones deform into a dog-like shape, even forming a snout, while hair starts growing all over the body, and the patient loses the ability to digest nearly anything except raw meat. But the most curious part of Monmow Disease is its visual symptoms: the patient begins to turn into what looks like a humanoid fox. Its symptoms are a wide variety of very bad things: the bones begin to atrophy, the patient exhibits an extraordinarily high fever, and eventually even loses the ability to breathe. In an out-of-the-way Japanese village, there is an illness known as Monmow Disease.
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