Osamu Tezuka is well-known for tackling deep philosophical questions in his seemingly unassuming style. “Record of the Glass Castle” is Tezuka’s very dark, much darker than usual take on the question of immortality. An unscrupulous billionaire forces his family to join him in cryogenic sleep, leaving only his youngest son Shirou and the latter’s daughter to tend to the others’ cryogenic pods and wake him up once a year. But Shirou, now forty-two, grows tired of his father’s antics and decides...
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