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“Two doctors clash over Monmow disease: veteran plots to infect rival to claim prestige.”
Ode to Kirihito
きりひと讃歌
7.83
1,364 rank · 7,800 readers · 100 favorites
Seinen
Medical
Psychological
Drama
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Synopsis
Two doctors clash over Monmow disease: veteran plots to infect rival to claim prestige.
Two doctors, the young, passionate and well-liked Osanai and the veteran, ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmow' diesease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai is sent to the village by Tatsugaura to see if he can find a cause for the disease while also treating the victims to the best of his ability. But in reality, Tatsugaura is scheming against Osanai and intends to infect him with the disease in order to clear the way of any obstacles of presenting his own research, and thus gaining high prestige and rank in the medical world.
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Community consensus
Derived from 7 sampled reviews
7.4
/10
What 7 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.59
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.59 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.57
Running avg · Aug 2012 → Dec 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Two doctors, the young, passionate and well-liked Osanai and the veteran, ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmow' diesease, found only in one remote village, which...”
- 7 “It's a great work, but it has some flaws in the execution of its ideas. We could begin by saying that Kirihito, at least until about halfway through the story, is a very uninteresting character....”
- 8 “Osamu Tezuka is often considered as the god of manga and once you read his works you can genuinely understand where they are coming from.Ode to Kirihito is a very underrated work of his and I found...”
Verbosity
Short · 29%
Medium · 43%
Long · 29%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 20 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 40m approx
- Published Mar 1970 – Dec 1971
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M1221 catalog