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Mw
Tezuka, Osamu ; Nieh, Camellia
Synopsis "Mw"
Comics god Osamu Tezuka's darkest work, MW is a chilling picaresque of evil. Steering clear of the supernatural as well as the cuddly designs and slapstick humor that enliven many of Tezuka's better-known works, MW explores a stark modern reality where neither divine nor secular justice seems to prevail. This willfully anti-Tezuka achievement from the master's own pen nevertheless pulsates with his unique genius.Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations. During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island's inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness--one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate. Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night--perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he's killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience. There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki's past--and frequently his bed.Serialized beginning in 1976 in Big Comic magazine, where Tezuka's trailblazing medical thriller Ode to Kirihito had appeared a few years earlier, MW probes the complexities of homoeroticism as well as the reality of extensive U.S. military presence in Japan. The result is as bracing today as it was thirty years ago. "Darker than you think--than you want to think [...] MW took on the stuff of today's headlines some thirty years ago." --The Agony Column "MW is the newest of those masterpieces to be translated into English, and like everything else with [Tezuka's] name on it, you are cheating yourself out of one of the best graphic novels out right now if you don't read it." --Advanced Media Network "Tezuka spins an entertaining, slightly preposterous yarn, serving up more plot twists, car chases, and gender-bending costume changes than Dressed to Kill and The Manchurian Candidate combined." --popcultureshock "You'll stare at the page, eyes popping and muttering, 'I cannot believe I just read that.' But you did, and it worked, and you turn the page." --David Welsh, Comic World News
Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu?, Toyonaka, 3 de noviembre de 1928-Tokio, 9 de febrero de 1989) fue un mangaka y animador japonés, conocido popularmente en su país como «el dios del manga» (漫画の神様 manga no kamisama?), debido a que gracias a su obra expandió y difundió masivamente la lectura y el consumo del manga como medio de entretenimiento popular, dando como consecuencia que los mangas, llegaran a tener una influencia profunda en la sociedad japonesa de la post guerra. Su nueva manera de desarrollar y crear manga, basada en las técnicas de la cinematografía de la época y de genios de la animación como Walt Disney, replanteó la tradicional realización de las historietas que apenas ocupaban unas viñetas rígidas y de pocos cuadros con cortas historias autoconclusivas para ser reemplazadas por los llamados story manga, o mangas de larga duración con una trama mucho más elaborada y compleja.
Así esta nueva técnica permitió que adaptará genialmente las grandes obras maestras de la literatura mundial a la historieta gráfica como hizo con Crimen y castigo, o se inspirara en ellas para crear sus propias aventuras como su primer gran éxito La nueva isla del tesoro (Shin Takarajima).
Tal fue el impacto de sus creaciones y de sus obras que hasta el día de hoy la base de su estilo perdura en los nuevos autores japoneses y los personajes que él dio a luz con su pluma siguen viviendo en la cultura popular de Japón, donde se puede encontrar en las librerías la gran mayoría de sus obras. Además, sus mangas han sido traducidas a decenas de lenguas, entre ellas el español. La ternura y el profundo y sincero humanismo que imprimió a sus personajes han dejado una huella indeleble, haciendo de él un autor universal capaz de traspasar culturas. Incluso los ojos desproporcionadamente grandes que son tan característicos de la animación y los mangas (sobre todo en el shoujo) constituyen un legado de Tezuka.
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Customers reviews
Carlos Alejandro Riveros HoltheuerWednesday, May 19, 2021
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La edición es de muy buena calidad, como indica es tapa blanda, lo único malo es que tiene orientación occidental.
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Cristián SilvaMonday, June 07, 2021
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No esperaba que la edición fuese americanizada (cambiando el sentido de lectura japonesa, derecha a izquierda, por el sentido occidental de izquierda a derecha) solo por eso no quedé del todo conforme con el libro.
