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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting exploration of male-female relationships and the distance between people.  Pretty disturbing at times as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it's taken me a little time to review this book, since finishing it. I read it as part of our book group, and i certainly wouldn't have approached it otherwise. i haven't read any other full length graphic novels, so my background on this is thin, to say the least.<br/><br/>that said, the only way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16519363">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka is one of my favorite writers of all time, so when publishers decide to release another one of this under appreciated writer/illustrator's works, its cause for celebration.  Tezuka is the father of Japanese comics and illustration, and though I do not partake in the guilty pleasures of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6901903">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first manga.  I liked some of the pictures and enjoyed the creativity of the story, but felt too much of the text was banal (bad translation?) and learned I didn't much like seeing what the characters looked like.<br/><br/>I'll try 1-2 more manga books to see how I like other others, but I was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42370850">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, though it doesn't reach the heights of Tezuka's &quot;Ode to Kirihito.&quot; Like &quot;Ode,&quot; however, it does feature excellent comic art (with an interesting play between &quot;cartoonish&quot; and realistic illustration), the pleasingly efficient realization of many biza...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71560075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely insane even by Tezuka standards! The book jacket described this as a work of &quot;salty&quot; pessimism, and while I don't completely agree (the cyclical nature of the plot brings to mind a Buddhist frame of reference from another more well-known work of his), it is an odd duck in the ca...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Osamu Tezuka is truly a master. This wasn't the best thing I have ever read by him, but still enjoyable. One of these days I am going to tackle his Buddha series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting idea. A meditation on love and karma, and learning the lessons of life. Unfortunately it stayed pretty shallow, both in writing and imaging. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a strange graphic novel.  But how could I resist reading a book by the grand-papa of Japanese manga that also weaves in characters from Greco-Roman mythology?  While my head spins at the extreme heteronormativity of the piece--which basically apotheosizes heterosexuality--I'm intrigued by Te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37857572">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Een klassieker. Mag meteen op dezelfde plank als de grote tragedies. (Van dezelfde mens die ons het grandioze Buddha heeft gegeven overigens.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic.  I love Tezuka!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In a continuing effort to show Americans the more literary and adult side of Osamu Tezuka's manga-graphic novels, Vertical proudly introduces Apollo's Song, the story of Shogo, a troubled young man who has no faith in love. When his misanthropy reaches its peak, he is met by the Goddess of Love, who condemns him to an eternity of heartbreak.]]>
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