Buddha

[dreamer_easy]

But before there was yaoi, there was Osamu Tezuka, inventor of useful things like Astroboy and Kimba. I've been reading his eight-volume life of the Buddha, which is positively Old Testament in its blood, guts, and nipples (one character loses hers mysteriously on becoming a nun). I had no idea I could enjoy a manga this much. It's a mixture of drama and serious ponderings on life and death, and huge comedy, with much mugging, anachronisms, breaking of the fourth wall, and authorial cameos, as here:



On the next page, for no reason I can discern (and standing behind Shariputra, lol) is the splendid random frog I have used as the icon for this posting.