![]() ![]() ![]() Osanai, a member of the Young Doctors’ Association. Tatsugaura, who plans to publish his virus-based theory of Monmow and use it as leverage in order to win the presidential election of the Japan Medical Association (JMA), seeks to eliminate his key rival, Dr. The disease, known as ‘Monmow’, causes the bones of the body shrink and enlarge in strange proportions, making the body of the sufferer twist into a dog-like shape before death. The story opens with the two doctors of “M” University investigating a rare incurable disease found only in the remote village of Inugamisawa – a pun on the Japanese word for “dog”, Inu (犬). ![]() It is also Tezuka’s first step into a genre he would later master with Black Jack (1973-83) and A Tree in the Sun (1981-86) – the medical drama. Ode to Kirihito (1970-71), originally serialized in Big Comic from April 1970 to December 1971, is part of Tezuka’s general shift in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s towards more mature subject matter. ![]()
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