dajna's review against another edition
3.0
Come lettura di Halloween 2023 ho ripercorso l'ascesa politica di Hitler.
Il manga è una biografia che si concentra sull'ascesa politica del dittatore, partendo dalla prima guerra mondiale e finendo con il colpo di pistola nel bunker a Berlino. Per una volta, cosa che mi è tutto sommato "piaciuta", non c'è nessun excursus sul genocidio, ma solo una lucida narrazione della pazzia del peggior dittatore della storia
Il manga è una biografia che si concentra sull'ascesa politica del dittatore, partendo dalla prima guerra mondiale e finendo con il colpo di pistola nel bunker a Berlino. Per una volta, cosa che mi è tutto sommato "piaciuta", non c'è nessun excursus sul genocidio, ma solo una lucida narrazione della pazzia del peggior dittatore della storia
robin_dh's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.0
catherinelouise's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
HE WAS VEGETARIAN????
chelseamartinez's review against another edition
4.0
I didn't LOVE this like I have loved every other Mizuki book; I think because all of his others that I have read, even the History of Japan, are interleaved with his personal experience and this one is not. You can still feel and see his sensibility; the looming block capital letters of propagandistic songs and chants, the use of grainy photographs, the desire to lean into showing the foolish and cowardly aspects of villains. Perhaps there is a touch of self-abnegation in the way he depicts the sloveny freeloading of Hitler-the-Artist? Anyhow, this is still very good; it's interesting to see how he is not interested in painting Hitler as DEFINITELY THE WORST PERSON EVER or a mad genius but simply someone who was skillful in channeling the anger of some of the masses after failing at many other things. A bit of a non sequitur but it really blows my mind that Franco was still in power when my mom went to study abroad, 30 years after the other fascists had fallen. I should probably read something about all that, it returns to my mind as something I'd like to understand better every few years.
poenaestante's review against another edition
4.0
Riveting account of the life and times of Hitler by a true master of Manga and storytelling. I am always embarrassed to realize how the version of history I got in American school textbooks was so abbreviated. People talk about going back in time to kill Hitler, but the most amazing revelation for me was that loads of people tried to kill him IN HIS OWN TIME. It's like the dude refused to be killed save by his own hand. That persistence, luck, and ability to champion batshit crazy ideas (along with leveraging a weak state and receiving ample funding from anti-communist aristocrats) was really what kept him in circulation long enough to gain a popular foothold. Hitler's rise was quite slow and improbable in many ways (and ALWAYS vigorously contested by a vocal few!) but I have no doubt the same sort of person could rise to power today and probably has in a great many places where people either don't know or refuse to acknowledge history.
stephee's review against another edition
4.0
Once I realised I was reading the panels the wrong way (it is printed in the Japanese style) this book made a lot more sense! It is a sort-of biography of Hitler's life, from just before World War I until he died. I knew a bit of the stuff in here and I learned quite a bit too. It was interesting to read something that was not written from a Western perspective. It does not contain much about the treatment of people under Nazi rule or "The Final Solution", rather it focuses on Hitler's rise to power and his machinations to maintain it. A really interesting read. Highly recommended.
jeremydaniel's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
tense
fast-paced
2.5
The opening talks about portraying the human side of Adolf Hitler but I feel like this ends up being disingenuous. Mizuki’s Hitler does shine light on the early years of Hitler but it’s incredibly brief. The main content focuses on his beliefs and his rise to power. It moves very fast, while context of people, places, and events is mostly served in a separate set of brief notes which, for me, disturbed the flow of the presentation.
This isn’t very surprising; an attempt at covering 56 years of someone’s life, especially someone that made such a huge impact on the entire world, is a large feat for a graphic novel. I imagine this would most likely not be the first place someone would head seeking an in-depth biography in the first place.
Some of the art was fantastic, particularly the artist’s signature style of mixing realism with manga elements. It’s eye-catching and unique, but I was left wondering what purpose it served in regards to recounting Hitler’s life.
The Holocaust itself is hardly mentioned which I found bizarre.
Ultimately, I found this manga to be shallow overall due to the reasons above. Covering the history of Hitler and all the events surrounding his rise to power is a massive undertaking, especially in this format. It’s the first graphic novel I’ve read where I didn’t think the genre was fit to tell the story.
This isn’t very surprising; an attempt at covering 56 years of someone’s life, especially someone that made such a huge impact on the entire world, is a large feat for a graphic novel. I imagine this would most likely not be the first place someone would head seeking an in-depth biography in the first place.
Some of the art was fantastic, particularly the artist’s signature style of mixing realism with manga elements. It’s eye-catching and unique, but I was left wondering what purpose it served in regards to recounting Hitler’s life.
The Holocaust itself is hardly mentioned which I found bizarre.
Ultimately, I found this manga to be shallow overall due to the reasons above. Covering the history of Hitler and all the events surrounding his rise to power is a massive undertaking, especially in this format. It’s the first graphic novel I’ve read where I didn’t think the genre was fit to tell the story.
tarsia_kim's review against another edition
5.0
The art style is amazing. Got to know some of the facts that I did not know before.