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1970–1971 · きりひと讃歌Ode to Kirihito

Kirihito Sanka · Series · Seinen (adults)

4MT-400
2BT-200
22events
2characters

Titles

Japanese
きりひと讃歌
Romaji
Kirihito Sanka
French
Kirihito
English
Ode to Kirihito

Titles published abroad

  • France Kirihito · Kirihito - Édition prestige
  • Italy Kirihito
  • Spain Oda a Kirihito
  • Germany Kirihito · Kirihito 1 2
  • Netherlands and Belgium Ode aan Kirihito
  • English-speaking countries Ode to Kirihito · Kirihito Sanka · ODE TO KIRIHITO
  • South Korea 키리히토 찬가

Period · Genre

Period
1970–1971 (1970/04/10-1971/12/25)
Volumes
4 vol. MT-400 · 2 vol. BT-200
Type
Series
Genre
Seinen (adults)
Themes
Medicine, Drama
Serialised in
Big Comic ビッグコミック

Summary

Monmow disease, found only in a remote village of Shikoku, slowly turns its victims into dog-headed beings before killing them. The young doctor Kirihito Osanai is sent there by his chief, Professor Tatsugaura, who backs the theory of a contagious epidemic to get himself elected head of the Medical Association.

Kirihito catches the disease, finds that it comes from the water and not from contagion, and is sold, exhibited, reduced to an animal, from Taiwan to the Middle East. Meanwhile, at the hospital, careers are built on his disappearance. An indictment of power struggles in the medical world and of the rejection of difference.

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Chronology 22 event(s)

Start of publication : 1970

+ 10

MT-400 (Manga Zenshū, Kōdansha)

MT-031MT-032MT-033MT-034

BT-200 (Bunko Zenshū, Kōdansha)

BT-043BT-044

Star System

IzumiKirihito Osanaithe Takasago elderFrankensteinMcCrackenMagooMr. YoshinagaIzumi Yoshinaga