After the melee of movies and biopics lined up for April 2013, the over-arching Ghost of Steve Jobs just made it to the annals of the epic Japanese Manga literature.
Authored by award winning writer Mari Yamazaki, the manga book is based on Walter Isaacon's besteller write on Apple's CEO. The book is likely to hit the market this week in the issue of notable anthology Kiss.
Isaacson reportedly wrote the Steve Jobs in 2011 immediately after Jobs death, that became an international bestseller with a record 37, 000 sell out in the first 5 days of release.
The anthology is fairly close to the realistic Jobs was in life as reviews on the work suggest. Sam Byford, opines in the The Verge, called "a semi-realistic monochrome style that is never off-putting, but stays true to the Japanese manga tradition". Yamazaki also talks of his work in the same light. "So this is the reason why I came to Colorado to meet your wife and kids'. 'Yep'. 'I think I would make an interesting subject'."
The installment on the Apple hero takes a slow turn of in the anthology. Moving from the typical real life persona, the transition to a typical manga hero like a "cute, doe-eyed kid who worries about whether his adoptive parents love him...and once he is of college age, Yamakzaki swiftly transforms him into the type of character any teenage reader could fall in love with".
To add to the climax of the coming of age sage, the Kiss installment concludes aptly with Jobs meeting of his partner Wozniack and the eventual co-founding of the tech giant Apple.
Coming to the author Yamazaki, he is a known name in the manga literally circle. His eponymous work is Thermae Romae, released a few years back.
In fact, The Guardian also has taken note of this recent work of literature. They reviewed the biography as being "studded with moments that make you go 'wow'".
Well we sure hope that the over drive of Jobs doesn't overshadow the work of Yamazaka.
Do let us know your opinion on the works and Steve Jobs, if you too are a manga freak like us.
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