Ayako

奇子 Manga

Informações adicionais

Format MANGA
Status Finished
Start date Jan 25, 1972
End date Jun 25, 1973
Average score 75/100
Popularity 5370
Favorites 173
Genres Drama

Tags

Historical 93%
Partly or completely set during a real period of world history.
Politics 91%
Centers around politics, politicians, or government activities.
Seinen 88%
Target demographic is adult males.
Espionage 85%
Prominently features characters infiltrating an organization in order to steal sensitive information.
Psychosexual 79%
Work that involves the psychological aspects of sexual impulses.
Incest 79%
Features sexual or romantic relations between characters who are related by blood.
Fugitive 79%
Prominently features a character evading capture by an individual or organization.
Crime 79%
Centers around unlawful activities punishable by the state or other authority.
Yakuza 79%
Centered around Japanese organised crime syndicates.
Rural 79%
Partly or completely set in the countryside.
Tragedy 79%
Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
Nudity 72%
Features a character wearing no clothing or exposing intimate body parts.
Time Skip 70%
Features a gap in time used to advance the story.
Police 70%
Centers around the life and activities of law enforcement officers.
Urban 40%
Partly or completely set in a city.
Gangs 40%
Centers around gang organizations.
Rehabilitation 40%
Prominently features the recovery of a character who became incapable of social life or work.

Links externos

Kodansha USA
Mangas.io
Official Site (Japanese)
Kodansha USA (Japanese)

Sinopse

Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master Osamu Tezuka’s most direct and sustained critique of Japan’s fate in the aftermath of total defeat. Unusually devoid of cartoon premises yet shot through with dark voyeuristic humor, Ayako looms as a pinnacle of Naturalist literature in Japan with few peers even in prose, the striking heroine a potent emblem of things left unseen following the war.

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter?

(Source: Kodansha USA)

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