Ayako (Hardcover) (of 1) (Mania.com)  By:Matthew Warner Review
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 Release Date: Thursday,
November 30, 2000  A dark and twisted look at a Japanese family
full of dark secrets.  Creative Staff Writer/Artist: Osamu
Tezuka  What They Say Initially set in the aftermath of World
War II, Ayako focuses its attention on the Tenge clan, a once-
powerful family of landowners living in a rural community in
northern Japan. The war and American occupation have begun to
erode the fabric that binds them all together. The increasing
influence of political, economic and social change begins to
tear into the many Tenge siblings, while a strange marriage
agreement creates resentment between the eldest son and his
sire.  When the family seems to have completely fallen apart,
they decide to turn their collective rage on what they believe
to be the source of their troubles: the newest member of the
Tenge family, the youngest sister Ayako.  The Review! The cover
here is a bold one that readers will lik