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Operacion Muerte (2000)

by Shigeru Mizuki(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8492769505 (ISBN13: 9788492769506)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

review 1: Wow this graphic novel came out 40 years ago, but it seems very fresh. It's about the most non glamorizing book about war I have ever read, and it wasn't achieved thru excessive use of gore. Just the simple story, as the author states, "90% true" of his experience as a soldier during WWII in the Japanese army. This is one of those books that you get done reading and you think, everybody needs to read this, the kind of book that should be a required reading text book for children to read. As far as the style of drawing goes, Shigeru seems to have been on the edge of a method where you draw an ultra realistic background and draw the human characters as simple line characters with no shading, cartoonish, and the effect gives the people a ghostly, energetic feeling, as tho the... morey were illuminated from within as they move thru these detailed darker landscapes. The effect is striking, the ultra realistic drawings pull you in, this is real! And then the exaggerated caricatures of the people serve to express the human emotions of the story. This is the good stuff.
review 2: I have to admit this was the first Japanese format graphic novel I've read (i.e. read right to left) and I had a real struggle with that... Also, as with a lot of military/war comics, I had a hard time keeping track of who was who - as everyone is wearing a more or less identical uniform. Those aren't really complaints about the book - just putting that out there. Despite my troubles the story was compelling enough to keep me hooked and turning the pages. The story is a semi-autobiographical tale of a Imperial Japanese Army battalion stationed on New Britain during the Second World War and is ultimately ordered to make a suicide charge against the enemy that landed there. less

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