Kazuki yone biography of mahatma gandhi

It's an ambitious task to summarize the life of one of the modern world's greatest humans into one 200-page graphic novel. Ebine does this fairly well, though his attempt falls somewhat flat, if for the only reason that it flies through Gandhi's life at an overly rapid pace.

Part of the reason may be the format: the smallish size pages don't give the creator much space to work with for such a monumental biography.

The drawings are fine, and I enjoy reading manga as much as the next person (along with the characteristic bead of sweat sliding down the face or forehead of a vexed character). And what Ebine does include is executed very well. But again, it just goes by so fast, it's hard to digest the magnitude of these events in the Mahatma's life.

Ebine also seems to have been heavily influenced by the 1982 film "Gandhi," starring Ben Kingsley, which is one of my all-time favorites.

This is apparent in several of his scenes, where the same