Yoshihiro tatsumi biography of mahatma

Gandhi: a manga biography.

Tatsumi is considered the “grandfather of Japanese alternative comics,” coining, in 1957, the term gekiga to describe the gritty style of story.

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro (2009): Gekiga hyōryū [A drifting life].

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Manga and the Representation of Japanese History (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series) [1 ed.] 041569423X, 9780415694230

Table of contents :
Title
Copyright
Contents
Editor’s notes
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: the representation of Japanese history in manga
2 Sabotaging the rising sun: representing history in Tezuka Osamu’s Phoenix
3 Reading Shōwa history through manga: Astro Boy as the avatar of postwar Japanese culture
4 Representations of gendered violence in manga: the case of enforced military prostitution
5 Maruo Suehiro’s Planet of the Jap: revanchist fantasy or war critique?
6 Making history herstory: Nelson’s son and Siebold’s daughter in Japanese shōjo manga
7 Heroes and villains: manchukuo in Yasuhiko Yoshikazu’s Rainbow Trotsky
8 Making history: manga between kyara and historiography
9 Postmodern representations of the pre-modern Edo period
10 ‘Land of kami, land of the dead’: paligenesis and the aesthetics of religious revisionism in Kobayashi Yoshinori’s ‘Neo-Gōmanist Manifesto: on Yasukuni’
11 Hating Korea, hating the media: Manga Kenkanryū and the graphical (mis-)representation of Japanese history in the Internet age
12 The adaptation of Chinese history into Japanese popular culture: a study of Japane

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The Hooded Utilitarian
Most of the comics I’ve consigned to the Manga Hall of Shame are there for obvious reasons: a script so hammy you could serve it for Easter dinner, for example, or a female character conjured straight from the pornographer’s imagination. But the manga that earns my greatest scorn isn’t a boob-fest like Eiken or Highschool of the Dead or The Qwaser of Stigmata. No, my least favorite manga looks positively wholesome in comparison, with a nifty cover design and a familiar corporate logo just below the title. Don’t be fooled, however: Gandhi: A Manga Biography is a bad comic.
As I noted in my original review, Gandhi has problems like a dog has fleas. The script is tin-eared, with passages of old-timey formality punctuated by California dudespeak. (One character actually calls another “bro.” No, really — “bro.”) The pacing, too, is uneven, focusing so heavily on Gandhi’s formative experiences in South Africa that his crusade for a sovereign India reads more like an epilogue than a second act. Equally frustrating is author Kazuki Ebine’s tendency to reduce major historical figures such as Jawaharal Nehru to walk-on roles; from the few panels in which Nehru appears, one might
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