I finished reading it yesterday, I couldn’t wait to get to the end. The characters really got to me, I love a good anti-hero. There were several elements that reminded me of Lautreamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror, although I have to say I vastly prefer Maldoror. Maldoror is a horrible being, the shark scene and the God scene will be forever branded in my brain.
MW is a political work, Tezuka launches a serious critique of US foreign policy and a sort of call for Japanese sovereignty. This line of critique echoes Yukio Mishima in The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Unfortunately, I also see condemnation of homosexuality in Yuki, Father Garai, the Lieutenant, etc. There always seems to a “girl” in a pairing. Ugh.
