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発表当時、話題を呼んだ伝説のアシッドコミック！ 25年の歳月を経て、世紀をまたいでついに電子化！
299 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 25, 1986
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小池 桂一
4 booksAlso known as Keiichi Koike in English.
小池 桂一（こいけ けいいち、1960年 - ）は、日本の漫画家。 東京都出身。男性。血液型はO型。星座は水瓶座。
幻覚や夢、悟り、瞑想による至高体験などトランスパーソナル心理学的な題材や、薬物等によるトリップ状態を描いたストーリーなど、意識の超越状態をテーマにした作品が多いため、著作は「サイケデリック・コミック」「アシッド・コミック」等と評されることが多い。
また、高度な作画技術と、繊細かつ緻密な描き込みが特徴的である。
小池 桂一（こいけ けいいち、1960年 - ）は、日本の漫画家。 東京都出身。男性。血液型はO型。星座は水瓶座。
幻覚や夢、悟り、瞑想による至高体験などトランスパーソナル心理学的な題材や、薬物等によるトリップ状態を描いたストーリーなど、意識の超越状態をテーマにした作品が多いため、著作は「サイケデリック・コミック」「アシッド・コミック」等と評されることが多い。
また、高度な作画技術と、繊細かつ緻密な描き込みが特徴的である。
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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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