Eat-Man and the Value of Fearless Adaptation
In 1997 Koichi Mashimo adapted Akihito Yoshitomi’s Eat-Man for television. It got surrealistic. It got symbolist. It got anti-war, anti-hypocrisy, anti-capitalist. It got weird and it got real.
DetailsIn 1997 Koichi Mashimo adapted Akihito Yoshitomi’s Eat-Man for television. It got surrealistic. It got symbolist. It got anti-war, anti-hypocrisy, anti-capitalist. It got weird and it got real.
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