Dororo v.1 by Osamu Tezuka

I picked this up at the Newport Beach Public Library.

I read it mostly while watching Cody and his friend Will run around the house.

Amazing. Simply amazing. This is one of the books that I cannot imagine how I missed for so long–staggering in its art, its story telling, it mashing of classic theme’s and architypes with modern struggles. Really a fantastic read–there is a great quote”one does not speak of Tezuka’s weaknesses. There aren’t any” from animenewsnetwork.com which I think is very very nice.

The story is operatic in the sense that it feels like a retelling of a story that you have heard before. I liked the footnotes (Tezuka means hand bury as he buries his hand, etc.)