Comments on: Adolf 5 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/ manga only if I like it Tue, 15 May 2012 00:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Manga Moveable Feast: My Tezuka Index « Slightly Biased Manga http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-20747 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:51:33 +0000 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-20747 [...] I wrote up Adolf, as a whole, over at Manga Recon some time ago. This has some additional commentary, along with a link to that review. I also reviewed the series as a whole here. The overview is one of the better reviews I’ve got to offer, but the volume-by-volume write-ups I did are five years old and not that great. vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5. [...]

]]> By: Pike http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-9378 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:01:47 +0000 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-9378 I’ve been a manga reader before the Tokyopop years and I just now finished Adolf. I’ve bumped into Adolf several times at bookstores, used bookstores, and libraries, but I never thought to try the series out. I can’t remember if I even gave the series a quick flip through. Maybe seeing Hitler on the cover with the title Adolf put me off, or just the fact that it was written by the manga god, Osamu Tezuka, made it seem intimidating. I can’t say for sure why, but I really feel like an idiot for not reading this amazing story earlier.

Couple more things I want to mention:
- Having the story end in Lebanon/Israel was shocking and brilliant. I’ve never heard of a story that has both the Holocaust and Middle East problem, with a neutral tone, and was completely unprepared for that (despite the cover showing a guy wearing middle eastern clothes). While I’m glad he added that bit of historical irony, it made no sense that a Nazi would be walking around Lebanon.

- Seeing Kamil swapping roles with Kaufman and turning into a killer was a tough read.

- Interesting to see you mention Naoki Urasawa because I noticed similarities as well.

- On Tezuka’s official site, they mention Tezuka rewriting the ending.

What a loss to manga readers that Adolf is now out of print.

]]> By: Brian http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-9339 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:58:56 +0000 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-9339 One thing about this series is each Volume was better then the last. Thus it follows this was my favorite volume. I don’t mean to spoil any thing but the scene where Kaufmann finally finds what he is looking for is one of the greatest scenes in fiction ever. It was simultaneously intense, poetic, tragic and effective in conveying its warning about blind faith. I have gone back to read just that scene multiple times after finishing the series.

]]> By: Connie http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-4359 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:06:01 +0000 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-4359 Yeah, it took me a long time to go back and read this series. It was in the Viz catalogs when I first started reading manga (I think they even had hardcover editions), and they were promoting it as a series by the “God of Manga,” but neither Black Jack nor Adolf interested me much at the time. I’m glad I went back for it though, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

]]> By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Rozen Nation? http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-4336 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:11:48 +0000 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-4336 [...] checks out vol. 1 of Gon. Connie is busy at Slightly Biased Manga, where she gives her take on vol. 5 of Adolf, vol. 2 of Golgo 13, Fake Fur, and vol. 1 of Walkin’ Butterfly. Ed Park reviews Apollo’s [...]

]]> By: ame http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-4302 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:05:53 +0000 http://slightlybiasedmanga.com/2007/09/11/adolf-5/#comment-4302 hey you know several years ago when i was in highschool i was tight with the librarian. She would order books that i suggested. However, the first volume of this series she ordered on her own. I read it and realized it was not a complete story. i don’t think she realized she had ordered a manga either. however i think i got up to volume 3 then gave up. I even got my dad to read it because he’s obsessed with WWII. but i’m not even kind of a fan of Tezuka. however this series(or what i read of it) was intriguing. however adolf has never been a real subject of interest for me so after it got too distrubing for me and it went it way too many directions than i was suspecting i quit. It wasn’t bad..but i was expecting an account of the real hitler..I’m not trying to knock the book. i’m only really posting this cuz i was going to say “omg i thought i was the only person in the world who had discovered this manga”. i was surprised to see it on here. well. later!

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