Domu: A Child's Dream

Domu: A Child's Dream is the title of a manga written and drawn by Katsuhiro Otomo, who played for he became internationally known with Akira . It came from 1980 to 1982 as serial, whereupon it from 1983 appeared as a complete aggregation. Otomo received that year, the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prix for his story.

[Story Edit ]
When Mr. Ueno suicide commits by jumping from the roof of the Tsutsumi Public Housing Complex, is the 32nd similar incident to the police totally does not know how. The riddle is for inspectors Yamagawa andTamura any clearer if it appears that Ueno has jumped from a place where he could come impossible. What the reader already knows is that Chojiro Uchida - or Old Man Cho - the evil genius is. The old man does nothing but the whole day dozing and doze on a bench in front of the apartment and no one knows what is going on inside him. With his telepathic and telekinetic abilities he nevertheless drives victim after victim to madness, while he leaves look just a muscle. All of his face and read spiritual manifestations, is a childish pleasure in playing his games. After the death of his victims Cho picks from each of them for their belongings as a souvenir.

When a little girl named Etsuko comes to live in the building, be Cho's games shattered. He notes that for the first time when losing a baby out a window. This does not fall to pieces because Etsuko the child with her telekinetic abilities collects near the ground. She warns the old man that he should quit his games. When there is nothing attracts, it comes to a confrontation.

[Main Theme edit ]
The main theme that crosses Domu, the child's mind. Where the little girl Etsuko is very mature for her age, her great opponent Cho is a severe dementia more than a big kid. Another important character, Yoshio 'Yo-Yo' Fujiyama, is a fantastic huge apparition whose mental capacities are never grown beyond childhood.