Friday, December 28, 2007

Japanese comics

A few young friends comment that Death Note is a brilliant piece and has much meaning in depth. I fully agree with the first but have some reluctance to the second.

To me, the most impressive story in Japanese comics was the Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鐵路999) by Leiji Matsumoto (松本零士). A boy seeks to have a machinery (immortal) body, meets the representative from a platent far away, and boards the train to get an eternal life free. When he reaches the destiny, he comes to realize that in exchange for the machinery body, he has to use all his life to fight for the owner of that planet.

I cannot understand why Vatican did not protest.

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