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Description
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 farmer´s terrible news, if you are 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 daught...
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Type
Manga
Related Series
Associated Names
Ayako l'enfant de la nuit
Ayako, l'enfant de la nuit (French)
奇子
Ayako, l'enfant de la nuit (French)
奇子
Groups Scanlating
Latest Release(s)
Status
in Country of Origin
2 Volumes (1973, Complete)
3 Volumes (1981, Tezuka Daizenshuu)
2 Volumes (1985, Reprint)
2 Volumes (1989, Aizouban)
2 Volumes (1996, Bunko)
3 Volumes (1981, Tezuka Daizenshuu)
2 Volumes (1985, Reprint)
2 Volumes (1989, Aizouban)
2 Volumes (1996, Bunko)
Completely Scanlated?
Yes
Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A
User Reviews
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User Rating
Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (112 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.41 / 10.0
Bayesian Average: 7.41 / 10.0
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Last Updated
January 21st 2024, 8:58am
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Year
1972
Original Publisher
Serialized In (magazine)
Big Comic (Shogakukan)
Licensed (in English)
Yes
English Publisher
Vertical (1 Vol - Complete)
Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #714 
(+28)
Monthly Pos #1728 (No change)
3 Month Pos #2658(+500)
6 Month Pos #3995(+583)
Year Pos #5818(+595)
(+28)Monthly Pos #1728 (No change)
3 Month Pos #2658
(+500)6 Month Pos #3995
(+583)Year Pos #5818
(+595)List Stats
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...the over-abundance of poetic justice prevents it from becoming truly memorable. I'm okay with contrived tales of "karmic retribution" a la Kisshou Tennyo, wherein the heroine is rewarded with vengeance as a result of her bravery, sacrifice, wit and manipulation, but women like Ayako who're granted justice just by sitting around looking pretty and somehow instilling within half the men who meet her a desire to either have sex with her or protect her at the risk of their own lives just annoy me. It doesn't make for an interesting, likeable or sympathetic protagonist at all.
That said, the side stories are intriguing. The plot would probably have been much more engaging if it'd followed Jiro and his ascent from a disgraced spy to a mafia boss, with a separate thread detailing Ayako's quest for revenge (and she should actually have had a quest for revenge, come to that; everything shouldn't have just magically fallen into her lap while she did nothing but offer her body to several men in quick succession). The author's inexplicable desire to link practically everything that happened in the series to Ayako (sometimes throwing all logic to the winds) caused several interesting plot threads to go nowhere. Not to mention that the way Ayako was kept alive by a clan full of ruthless men who'd silenced - in one way or another - countless women before her was just nonsensical.
And of course, too many lust-driven beastly men and too many "pure" women exploited by said men. I understand that this is a story meant to explore the twisted patriarchy of traditionalist Japan, but the fact that there wasn't a single likeable main male character or even one scheming, nasty woman was unsuited to a story attempting a realistic portrayal of the darkness of the human soul.
This comment might seem too harsh (especially compared to my rating), but the criticism reflects my disappointment at all the unrealised potential. A thriller-in-the-making turning into an unfulfilling revenge fantasy is quite the waste, imo.
... Last updated on March 18th, 2015, 6:14pm
That said, the side stories are intriguing. The plot would probably have been much more engaging if it'd followed Jiro and his ascent from a disgraced spy to a mafia boss, with a separate thread detailing Ayako's quest for revenge (and she should actually have had a quest for revenge, come to that; everything shouldn't have just magically fallen into her lap while she did nothing but offer her body to several men in quick succession). The author's inexplicable desire to link practically everything that happened in the series to Ayako (sometimes throwing all logic to the winds) caused several interesting plot threads to go nowhere. Not to mention that the way Ayako was kept alive by a clan full of ruthless men who'd silenced - in one way or another - countless women before her was just nonsensical.
And of course, too many lust-driven beastly men and too many "pure" women exploited by said men. I understand that this is a story meant to explore the twisted patriarchy of traditionalist Japan, but the fact that there wasn't a single likeable main male character or even one scheming, nasty woman was unsuited to a story attempting a realistic portrayal of the darkness of the human soul.
This comment might seem too harsh (especially compared to my rating), but the criticism reflects my disappointment at all the unrealised potential. A thriller-in-the-making turning into an unfulfilling revenge fantasy is quite the waste, imo.
... Last updated on March 18th, 2015, 6:14pm
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