This is more akin to Charles Burns' incredibly dark and moving Black Hole or Art Spiegelman's Prisoner on the Hell Planet. Ode to Kirihito is not the same bouncy and optimistic outlook as his work on Astro Boy. From philosophical tales of robots in a bleak future ( Metropolis) to his epic imagining of the life of Buddha ( Buddha), Tezuka not only concocted themes that still dominate Manga, but also introduced a vast array of visual storytelling elements which have had an incredible impact on modern comics throughout the world. Tezuka has consistently shown throughout his career his ability to explore and essentially create most of the genres that Manga adheres to today. Tezuka is often heralded as the Godfather of Japanese Manga, and with good reason. Tezuka is mostly known to American audiences for his character Astro Boy, a small robotic kid with amazing powers who fights for the good of the public. Urabe acts as a brilliant counter-protagonist to Kirihito, evolving into a psychological beast while Kirihito is simultaneously trying to assert his being a human. Urabe, on the other hand, continues to investigate the enigma, going to South Africa and discovering outbreaks of the disease there as well. Kirihito is soon expelled from the town, however, and undergoes a desperate journey home, encountering sadistic criminals and madmen along the way. Kirihito contracts the disease, and through his research is able to pinpoint how to stop his progression into a wolf-man. Kirihito encounters a backwards town where secrets and cover-ups run rampant. Tatsugaura, a deceivingly corrupt man with political motivations, instructs Kirihito to go to the remote village which seems to be the contamination point for all these victims. Urabe, seek to get to the bottom of what is the mysterious cause of this disease and find out how it can be stopped. A modern thriller set in early 1970s Japan, Tezuka presents the question, "Who are the real beasts? The wolf-men? Or man alone?" These are the symptoms of Monmow disease, a mysterious condition that turns humans into wolves in Osamu Tezuka's Ode to Kirihito, published for the first time in English. Very soon you start behaving like a wild beast, and at a certain point your body can not take anymore, and you die.
Your facial bone structure gradually morphs into that of a dog's. Long, thick hair grows all over your body. Before you know it, pangs of hunger start settling in. It starts with what is seemingly a simple cold.
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