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G is the story of Tomak, an Amazon tribesmen about to take his initiation journey. His spiritual quest will take him to the boundaries of life, death, fate, spiritual fulfillment, emptiness, past, present, and future.
The Death Grass Spirit is never far...
This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.
Serialized In: Comic Burger (25/11/1986 to 14/04/1987)
Published In: Scholar (December, 1988)
Reprinted In: Enterbrain (2003)
The Death Grass Spirit is never far...
This story is related to the short story "Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour" published in Heaven's Door.
Serialized In: Comic Burger (25/11/1986 to 14/04/1987)
Published In: Scholar (December, 1988)
Reprinted In: Enterbrain (2003)
291 pages, Hardcover
First published November 25, 1986
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About the author
Keiichi Koike
17 books34 followersKeiichi Koike (in Japanese, 小池 桂一) is a Japanese manga artist.
Born in Tokyo in 1960, Koike won the prestigious Tezuka Award in 1976, when he was 16.
His style, similar to Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius, is marked by vivid representations of psychedelic experiences.
Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however, LSD is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of manga Heaven's Door and Ultra Heaven.
His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016.
Born in Tokyo in 1960, Koike won the prestigious Tezuka Award in 1976, when he was 16.
His style, similar to Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius, is marked by vivid representations of psychedelic experiences.
Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however, LSD is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of manga Heaven's Door and Ultra Heaven.
His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016.
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April 18, 2020
Well, since I'm the first to mark this book as read, I might as well leave a short review. Gate 1 is one of the earliest works of Koike, it deals with a lot of interesting aspects such as psychedelics & hallucinations, time & space travel, human groups from Amazon and the process of acculturation provoked by the Brazilian government; Catholic organizations, etc.
G has everything to be an amazing experience, the art is superb, very realistic, but reflecting with surrealistic traits the 'tripping' aspect the author wants to simulate.
The plot is almost as good and shows that some anthropological research was done, but unfortunately it has a rushed ending and we're left with no explanations about most of what was really going on, mainly about the "trip", who was having it? The astronaut in cryogenic / the "tribe warrior", who was who, what's the connection between all? There's no moment of enlightenment, the story itself feels like a bad trip. Still, quite at front of it's time (for a 1986 serialization) it's a nice attempt of the mangaka to connect major sci-fi themes with spiritual themes from ethnobotany.
G has everything to be an amazing experience, the art is superb, very realistic, but reflecting with surrealistic traits the 'tripping' aspect the author wants to simulate.
The plot is almost as good and shows that some anthropological research was done, but unfortunately it has a rushed ending and we're left with no explanations about most of what was really going on, mainly about the "trip", who was having it? The astronaut in cryogenic / the "tribe warrior", who was who, what's the connection between all? There's no moment of enlightenment, the story itself feels like a bad trip. Still, quite at front of it's time (for a 1986 serialization) it's a nice attempt of the mangaka to connect major sci-fi themes with spiritual themes from ethnobotany.
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December 10, 2022underused elements, priest/space. good art, easy to get through and memorable psychedelia, less polished or, weirdly enough, too structured. wish it let more be implicit.
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