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Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets. Some of you may know him from his fantasy novel Night of the Milky Way Railway Others may know him from his short stories or from his poetry. Some have enjoyed the anime Spring and Chaos. Few in the English-speaking world, however, know the full story of his life. This is precisely the story told in The Manga Biography of Kenji Miyazawa From being a somewhat odd child, to his early empathy for others, to his passion for rock collecting, mountain climbing, and the beauty of nature, to his study of soil sciences and fertilizers, his awakening to fantasy literature, poetry, and music, to the devastating loss of his sister, his religious conflicts with his father, his vegetarianism, his heroic and sometime quixotic efforts to come to the aid of impoverished local farmers, and, finally, to his failing health and eventual death at the age of thirty-seven --