Blackjack Tome 12

Las décadas de 1850 y 1860 fueron cruciales para Japón. Después de 250 años de cerrazón absoluta al exterior, en 1854 el comodoro Perry de la armada de los EEUU llegó con su flotilla de barcos de guerra al país para tratar de conseguir un tratado de comercio favorable a sus intereses. En ese momento, el shogunato estaba en su época de más profundo declive y el sistema amenazaba con venirse abajo al más mínimo contratiempo (de hecho, en poco más de una década se acabó derrocando el shogunato y Japón entró en su frenética etapa de modernización de la época Meiji. En esta obra se compara al shogunato con un gran cerezo que hay en el jardín de uno de los personajes: ese árbol que proporciona tan agradable sombra (de aquí el título de la obra), protegiendo a quienes se encuentran debajo de él, ha vivido ya 250 años, pero el interior de su tronco está podrido y carcomido por los parásitos, con lo que un simple empujón bastaría para que se desplomase. La metáfora del potencial desplome simboliza, el estado del shogunato en la época en que transcurre la acción de esta obra.

L'arbre Au Soleil (1)

Précipité du haut d'un immeuble par un producteur de télévision sans scrupules, le dessinateur de BD Otohiko Yamanobe acquiert la faculté, appelée «Diletta», de faire physiquement partager aux gens qui l'entourent les fantasmes délirants de son cerveau d'artiste génial. Le producteur va populartiser le « Diletta » en construisant un immense émetteur, créant ainsi un nouveau média bien plus puissant que la télévision...

La grande pagaille du diletta

Kirihito (Tome 4)

Kirihito Osanai is a young doctor who's just been introduced to the Monmow disease, which transforms humans into dog-like beasts and kills them within a month of the metamorphosis. While studying the pathology of the disease Kirihito himself becomes an unknowing guinea pig for his hospital's research into it. Under the auspices of research, Kirihito is sent to a remote village in the mountains, where he contracts the Monmow disease himself, and through a series of misfortunes, becomes estranged from his beautiful fiancee, Izumi Yoshinaga (the daughter of his hospital's Director and Chief Physician), and his close friend and rival, Urabe.  In a remote mountain village, Kirihito learns that the only way to avoid being killed with the disease is to behave humanely an not give in to the animal instincts of savagery and violence.  The disease itself has little to do with humanity and animal instincts, as research in South Africa has proven that high concentrations of mineral deposits from mining runoff has been the cause of a similar outbreak in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.  Meanwhile, Urabe becomes subsumed into the human instincts of opportunism and blackmail, forcing those he loves into compromising situations. In Kirihito's efforts to save his own life, he finds himself in different corners of the world, where he ends up caring for the diseased of all shapes and sizes.  He leaves his village to share the truth, and quickly realizes that humanity as it is percieved is often superficial at best.  With newly cemented beast-like looks, Kirihito now in a more populated city is quickly wrangled up and sold into slavery by Chinese human trafficers.  Shipped to Taiwan as a gift to a traveling human circus, Kirihito is no longer seen as human.  Instead he is treated like a bear or tiger but without fangs or claws.  He has no rights and when his new owners no longer see a need for him, he along with another performer are taken by a local village in need of a witch-doctor.  After performing his duties to save a village chiefton's life, Kirihito fights to escape to the West in hope of sharing word of the injustices of the medical community. However with his new face, no matter what is outlook in life may be, tragedy in the form of racism and bigotry will follow him and all those with Monmow's to the ends of the Earth and possibly beyond.“A thoroughly original, wonderfully bizarre, and compulsively readable masterwork.Ode to Kirihito is a vital testament to Tezuka’s range as an artist, as well as an awe-inspiring example of the possibilities of the graphic novel.” —Adrian Tomine, writer/artist of Optic Nerve and Summer Blonde“Tezuka was like a god for me. He shocked the manga world with the medical thriller genre, and the work he did it with was Ode to Kirihito—a monumental suspense masterpiece that shows off Tezuka’s two points of expertise—manga and medicine.” —Yoshihiro Tatsumi, author of The Push-Man and Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Kirihito (Tome 2)

Vampires Tome 2

The acclaimed Phoenix series is regarded as Tezuka's masterpiece. Osamu Tezuka painstakingly created his epic 12-volume series over several decades, stretching the limits of comics to address fundamental questions about existence. All 12 episodes of Phoenix are linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Beginning in AD 270, ‘Phoenix: Dawn’ follows the ambitions of Queen Himiko, capturing with precise period detail the early phase of Japanese civilization.

Phénix, Vol. 1

Pluto Tome 1 à 8

Traduit du japonais par Jacques Lalloz et Rodolphe Massé1970. Au plus fort des manifestations étudiantes qui secouent le Japon, le vieux professeur Ichinoseki, spécialiste mondial en génie génétique, constate avec amertume qu’au bout d’une existence tout entière dédiée à la recherche, il n’est pas parvenu à percer les secrets de l’univers. Alors qu’il se résout au suicide, le diable en personne lui apparaît sous les traits d’une jeune femme et lui propose un contrat : en échange de son âme, il aura droit à une seconde vie…Transposant le mythe de Faust dans le Japon contemporain, Osamu Tezuka mène une réflexion personnelle sur la fuite du temps et les mystères de la création. Écrit dans les derniers mois avant sa mort, Néo Faust est aussi une relecture symbolique de la vie d’un des plus grands génies de la bande dessinée.

Blackjack Tome 12

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