If an ordinary high school student suddenly acquired a terrible supernatural power with an immature spirit - "Tree of Euphrates" is a honorable mention of such a school SF.
Three high school students of Oya, Sickle and Sei, who came to "Elektror Islands" to make a report of the Biological Society, eat the fruits of the "tree of Euphrates" that grew on the island, It will be turned on. Ohya gains intelligence, the sickle gives a spirit, and Shiko shows psychic powers by playing the piano. Gears start to go crazy from around the time they started planning the world dictatorship with the spirit of becoming so powerful that the sickle became so powerful that sickle, sometimes even himself, could not be controlled at first.
Everyone has thought once, "I want to get super power" wish. Naturally, there is a purpose. Oya is a test, Siyoko gets a supernatural ability to get on the piano recital, but it is also a life-sized problem of the reader of "high 1 course" in which this work was serialized at the same time, There is no doubt that the writer Tezuka Osamu conscious of it. And Tezuka Osamu does not forget the tragedy invited to judge people by dictatorship as a theme. Perhaps it is the message that I wanted to convey most to readers with this work.
Tezuka Osamu himself seems to have not appreciated this work much, but from the first half of suspense tailoring, from the latter half of the fate of three people who begins runaway by supernatural ability to the great circle, "Start the serialization with no whole idea at all I think that it is a splendid composition that will not let the reader get bored, so that it can not be thought of ... "How do you feel?
by tezukaosamu.net
