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   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   Hi there,   
      
   	Well as most of those familiar with me know due to limited space I read   
   most of manga online.   
   	Recently several old Tezuka manga have shown up including the   
   dramatic manga "Ayako" and "Barbara" both stories about young women.   
     I do not remember why i did not investigate Barbara more thoughly   
   but I did get into "Ayako".   
   	The setting is 1949 Occupied Japan.  Tenge Jiro has returne4d   
   from WW II POW camp, to the bosom of his family which is throughly   
   corrupted from the old man Sakuemon to the rest.  Formerly landowning,   
   the family has been forced by the occupiers to divest themselves of   
   their large holdings.   The short account of the manga provided by   
   fanfox.net is quoted below.   
      
   > Jiro Tenge (???? Tenge Jir??), one of the eldest sons of the moderately   
   wealthy Tenge family, has become an agent working for the United States,   
   and his secret murders are discovered by Ayako Tenge (???? Tenge Ayako?),   
   his youngest sister. This problem is aggravated by her discovery of   
   terrible incestuous affairs in her own family; the wife of her older   
   brother   
   is actually her mother, who has to frequently have sex with Ayako’s father,   
   the family patriarch Sakuemon. To hide these secrets, the family—under   
   pressure from Sakuemon and his eldest son Ichiro—decides to keep Ayako   
   locked up in the basement for the rest of her life. Despite the efforts   
   of her mother and younger brother Shiro, she lives for nearly two dozen   
     years under the family’s house, while great political and social changes   
   occur above her. Ayako eventually leaves the basement after growing into   
   a beautiful and attractive woman, and seeks affection from others while   
   remaining terrified of the outside world. This sets off a chain reaction   
   of events which spells tragedy for the Tenge family.   
      
   	I find this very interesting and very far from the usual Tezuak fare.   
   Art is more realisticaly slanted, than cartoonishly slanted   
      
   	bliss   
      
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