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Message to Adolf

Adolf ni Tsugu

1983, Manga, 36 ch, 81%

Recommended by 16 Ayako fans on AniList. Both have Espionage, Fugitive, Politics.

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a…

More manga for fans of Ayako

  1. Cover of Sanctuary
    Sanctuary

    1990, Manga, 108 ch, 81%

    Both have Yakuza, Police, Politics.

  2. Cover of The Book of Human Insects
    The Book of Human Insects

    1970, Manga, 4 ch, 72%

    Recommended by 18 Ayako fans on AniList.

  3. Cover of MW
    MW

    1976, Manga, 26 ch, 75%

    Recommended by 19 Ayako fans on AniList. Both have Politics, Crime.

  4. Cover of Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
    Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

    2010, Manga, 32 ch, 85%

    Rakugo, Josei, Male Protagonist

  5. Cover of Monster
    Monster

    1994, Manga, 162 ch, 90%

    Both have Police, Crime.

  6. Cover of Billy Bat
    Billy Bat

    2008, Manga, 165 ch, 86%

    Recommended by 5 Ayako fans on AniList. Both have Police, Politics.

  7. Cover of Record of the Glass Castle
    Record of the Glass Castle

    1970, Manga, 7 ch, 68%

    Both have Fugitive, Crime.

  8. Cover of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
    Ōoku: The Inner Chambers

    2004, Manga, 79 ch, 84%

    Both have Politics.

  9. Cover of 20th Century Boys
    20th Century Boys

    1999, Manga, 249 ch, 88%

    Ensemble Cast, Coming of Age, Seinen

  10. Cover of Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
    Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

    2020, Manga, 62 ch, 83%

    Historical, Astronomy, Seinen

  11. Cover of A Bride's Story
    A Bride's Story

    2008, Manga, ongoing, 85%

    Both have Rural.

  12. Cover of Barbara
    Barbara

    1973, Manga, 15 ch, 72%

    Recommended by 10 Ayako fans on AniList.

  13. Cover of Utsubora - The Story of a Novelist
    Utsubora - The Story of a Novelist

    2008, Manga, 14 ch, 72%

    Recommended by 5 Ayako fans on AniList.

  14. Cover of Goodbye, Eri
    Goodbye, Eri

    2022, One-shot, 1 ch, 85%

    Filmmaking, Meta, POV

  15. Cover of Mushishi
    Mushishi

    1999, Manga, 50 ch, 85%

    Both have Rural.

  16. Cover of Goodnight Punpun
    Goodnight Punpun

    2007, Manga, 147 ch, 88%

    Coming of Age, Seinen, Philosophy

  17. Cover of March Comes in Like a Lion
    March Comes in Like a Lion

    2007, Manga, ongoing, 88%

    Coming of Age, Family Life, Philosophy

  18. Cover of The Climber
    The Climber

    2007, Manga, 170 ch, 87%

    Mountaineering, Coming of Age, Seinen

  19. Cover of Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly
    Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly

    1995, Manga, 9 ch, 75%

    Josei, Female Protagonist, Fashion

  20. Cover of Jibi Eopseo
    Jibi Eopseo

    2018, Manga, 269 ch, 88%

    Primarily Teen Cast, Homeless, Found Family

  21. Cover of Blue Giant
    Blue Giant

    2013, Manga, 80 ch, 85%

    Seinen, Jazz Music, Band

  22. Cover of Death Note
    Death Note

    2003, Manga, 108 ch, 84%

    Both have Espionage, Police, Crime.

  23. Cover of The Summer Hikaru Died
    The Summer Hikaru Died

    2021, Manga, 51 ch, 84%

    Both have Rural.

Anime for fans of Ayako

Death Note2006, TV, 37 eps, 84% A Place Further Than the Universe2018, TV, 13 eps, 84% Renegade Immortal2023, ONA, 180 eps, ongoing, 85% Cosmic Princess Kaguya!2026, ONA, 1 ep, 84% Kaguya-sama: Love is War2019, TV, 12 eps, 83% Delicious in Dungeon2024, TV, 24 eps, 85% Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!2000, TV, 75 eps, 87% The Apothecary Diaries2023, TV, 24 eps, 88%

About Ayako

1972, Manga, 19 ch, 77%

Opening a few years after the end of World War II and covering almost a quarter-century, here is comics master Osamu Tezuka’s most direct and sustained critique of Japan’s fate in the aftermath of total defeat. Unusually devoid of cartoon premises yet shot through with dark voyeuristic humor, Ayako looms as a pinnacle of Naturalist literature in Japan with few peers even in prose, the striking heroine a potent emblem of things left unseen following the war.

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter?

(Source: Kodansha USA)

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