Tezuka, pt.2

[furtech]

Part two of three on my favorite of Osamu Tezuka's works.



Again, I'm not sure what the title of this work is (though it's volume 4 of "The Best Of" series of Tezuka's works). Fred Patten would be the person to ask about anything-manga.

This story involves a boy and his jackal-y wonder dog and a supernaturally powerful leopard. He and two other trained dogs are hired to hunt down a she-leopard who has been causing trouble. Fairly straight- forward story about a dog-hero (with an unusual twist as to how he defeats the evil she-leopard). Again, I like the designs and the story.

Hey, Calicougar!
At one point one of the dogs is trapped and beset by vipers...and for some reason this really reminded me of Cody and his reaction to a vicious straw wrapper on a recent dogwalk...heh. (Just replace snakes with straw wrappers or Red Vines)




These are some panels I've put together for an idea of what this looks like.


And if you want to see full pages (fairly small...each is about 170K), check these links out:

http://www.akela.com/IMAGES2/TEZUKA/dogb-jackalattack.jpg
http://www.akela.com/IMAGES2/TEZUKA/doge-mother.jpg
http://www.akela.com/IMAGES2/TEZUKA/dogf-leoparddeath.jpg
http://www.akela.com/IMAGES2/TEZUKA/dogdeathsm.jpg

Comments

Enjoying These...

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

...even though it's too bad that some characters seem to be dying... :|

O' course the most wanton bit of savagery I've seen from Tezuka was when he illustrated the evil of the bad guys in the Phoenix2772 (unedited) movie, where one of them takes a machine gun to those innocent critters in the cold blood shooting gallery... :/

Re: Enjoying These...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

These were his more adult stories...though even his kid stories didn't shy away from death. A lot of them are pretty depressing.