![]() Kirihito is most likely a prototype for Tezuka's later medical manga series Black Jack. The series also includes a number of references to Christianity that is somewhat unusual in Japanese manga. ![]() Many of the characters are portrayed as neither outright good nor bad. He becomes infected with the disease himself and is led on a wild odyssey around the world as he is kidnapped and maltreated by the ignorant and the curious, meeting strange allies and stranger foes. This series is about a heroic young doctor named Kirihito Osanai and his efforts to cure a strange disease that deforms its victims so that they look like dog-people. It was originally serialized in Big Comic in Japan 1970-1971 and was published in English translation in 2006 by Vertical Inc. ![]() ![]() Ode to Kirihito ( きりひと讃歌 Kirihito Sanka ?) is a graphic novel by Osamu Tezuka. ![]()
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