Dōmu
Dômu (童夢 Dômu ) is a Manga of Katsuhiro Ōtomo. He was written between 1980 and 1982 and was published at Futabasha in 1983. Published in France under the title Child's dreams , this work was sold with more 500 000 copies with the Japan.
Katsuhiro Ōtomo develops certain topics to with it (telekinesis, great power of the children misunderstood by the majority of the adults, (visions of destroyed buildings) who will nourish his future work, in particular the manga Akira .
History and Topic
A series of suspect suicides draw the attention of the police force. Indeed, in a residential zone, not less than twenty-five dead are listed for only one building!! The inspector Yamagawa and his team inquires and they end up understanding that the killer is not interested in the people whom it kill, but just with the building and the people who live there, other strange detail, each death lost a particular object (rings of family, shows, etc…). The investigation progresses, but little of time after, Yamagawa commits suicide in its turn.
Here not of great mysteries on the murderer, who is revealed as of page 43 (one nevertheless will not say to you who it is, history to maintain so much is little the suspense), the topic is other share. It is more question of childhood, as well as Akira is a topic on adolescence. There is here a true child and a false , all two equipped with great capacities. Their fight is the image of the child who refuses to become an adult (and also with the child who wants to be adult). Dômu is also worked under a very cinematographic approach, the drawing being in extreme cases of the Scénarimage.
Edition
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1st French edition: Humanoïdes Associated (in 3 volumes)
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2nd French edition: Humanoïdes Associated (1997)
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3rd French edition: Humanoïdes Associated (2003)
Price
- 1983 : Grand Prix of the Science fiction to the Japan.
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