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Hokushin Denki vol. 1
Nov. 1st, 2010 10:45Ohtsuka Eiji & Mori Yoshinatsu. Hokushin Denki vol. 1. Tokyo: Kadokawa, 2004. [1997]
I would bet money--not a lot, but, say, ¥500--that I'm the only person in the country to have read this manga. It's never been translated, which is a shame, because like all of Ohtsuka Eiji's manga it's quite interesting.
So. This manga is set in Japan and Manchukuo in the fraught, fascistic 1930s and follows one Hyoudou Hokushin, a former disciple of the folklorist Yanagita Kunio and a self-proclaimed "heresiologist"--he's been excommunicated by Yanagita for his interest in what he calls "hidden ethnology," to which Yanagita retorts that there is neither back nor front to ethnology.
( The legend of the heresiologist; the price of nationalism )
I would bet money--not a lot, but, say, ¥500--that I'm the only person in the country to have read this manga. It's never been translated, which is a shame, because like all of Ohtsuka Eiji's manga it's quite interesting.
So. This manga is set in Japan and Manchukuo in the fraught, fascistic 1930s and follows one Hyoudou Hokushin, a former disciple of the folklorist Yanagita Kunio and a self-proclaimed "heresiologist"--he's been excommunicated by Yanagita for his interest in what he calls "hidden ethnology," to which Yanagita retorts that there is neither back nor front to ethnology.
( The legend of the heresiologist; the price of nationalism )
