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The Lives of Eccentrics
| Alt Names: |  変人偏屈列伝 Henjin Henkutsu Retsuden |
| Author: | Araki Hirohiko |
| Artist: | Araki Hirohiko & Onikubo Hirohisa |
| Genres: |  Drama Historical Horror Mystery Psychological Seinen |
| Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
| Status: | Complete |
| Description: | Aka Henjin Henkutsu Retsuden Explore the lives of the famous-yet-not-so-famous people of history; such as Nikola Tesla, Typhoid Mary, the woman behind the Winchester Mystery House, Kou Yoshio, and many more. (Art by Araki Hirohiko and Onikubo Hirohisa; all stories by Araki Hirohiko) |
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The Araki drawn art and told stories have Araki's flavour of insane gore and exaggerated situations. I like them a lot. As well as his JoJo Part 4 to 6 art style displayed for those stories.
The Tesla story was good too, having that realistic appearance for the characters and very good atmosphere and environment adding to it. There needs to more Tesla stories!
Tesla's story isn't all that accurate. By the time he died he did lose everything he had, but he lost it all quite frequently. His workshop burned down, an experimental fuel blew up while he was at dinner, destroying all of the inventions he had created but had yet to reveal. On top of that, he never really had that much to begin with, none of his inventions were all that successful at the market and while he had Westinghouse and a number of wealthy benefactors, some of whom he was quite fond of, he was always trying to scrape the money for his next project. He died penniless because he could never hold onto a penny. It was what spurred his eccentric self marketing, odds are he never made a death ray but he made sure to tell anyone who'd listen he could split the world at a moment's notice. Even the picture of him seated in front of his Tesla coil is fraudulent, though here it is confused with his exhibit at the World's Fair, the noise the thing produced alone would have blown out his ears. The big thing however, he never made blueprints. He constructed every device in his head and would not proceed making a model until he was sure that it would work.
It's a bit weird to read this as someone who was born and raised a couple miles from the Winchester Mystery House.
Actually, about that house, it's kind of funny. The city where I live (San Jose, California) is the tenth largest city in the USA by population, but there's so little in the way of tourist traps that, bizarrely, the Winchester Mystery House is essentially one of our main attractions--if you could call it that. Aside from a couple of museums in our comparatively small downtown, it's basically all we have for any tourist crazy enough to come here.