Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand Yoshihiro Tatsumi\'s prolific artist\'s vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan.
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Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt as a result of World War II: in one story a man devotes twenty years to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute.
Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand Yoshihiro Tatsumi\'s prolific artist\'s vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan