Traveling to the winner of the "Manga & Graphic Novels Sweeps".
I really hope you like it :-)

This got here a few weeks ago. It looks like an interesting story

This was not what I expected when I read the back description. This graphic novel from the creator of Astro Boy takes readers to 1936 Germany and Japan. The story opens during the Berlin Olympics where a Japanese reporter is contacted by his brother who has been studying in Germany. The call seems urgent and when the reporter gets to his brother he finds him dead in a tree. However there is a coverup of the death and the reporter finds himself drawn into the Nazi party to find out what happened to his brother. Here we are introduced to the first Adolf, Adolph Hitler.

The story then moves to Japan and introduces these one and third Adolph's. The second Adolph is a nine year boy who is the half Japanese so of a German diplomat who is also a high ranking member of the Nazi party. He attends the Kobe Christian Academy which is a school for foreigners. He has a secret friend though that his parents don't want him playing with.

His friend is the third Adolph. The son of a German Jewish family. Adolph struggles with being considered a foreigner in the country he was born in. He stumbles across some information that is very shocking and if it gets out could mean death for him and his family.

I thought this introduced the events that led up to the rise of the Nazi Party and how Japan and how Japan and Germany considered themselves allies really well. As the story progressed from 1936 - 1938 there was a page of important events that happened that year in both Germany and Japan. I even learned a few things I was t aware of. However, this volume ended with a fairly cliffhanger ending. I wish the volume had contained more than just the first part of the story in it. I am going to have to see if my library carries the rest of the volumes.

Thanks for sharing this. I have read othe manga by Osamu Tezuko before and xenotransplantation it but never this story series.

Left in the little free library