Issue: #8
Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across India, and questio...
Creators: Osamu Tezuka
Characters: Lamp, Rock, Hyotantsugi, Maya, Ananda, Devadatta, Yatala, Mustachio, Tatta, Rāhula, Mara, Suddhodana, Yasodhara, Yoda, Brahma, Buddha, E. T., Naradatta, Dhepa, Tonanshipei