As For Tsutsui Summary
Gardner explores the way in which Komatsu and Tsutsui’s early work describes socio-historical transition happening in Japan of the time with their science fictional imagination. Gardner pays attention to Komatsu’s Nihon appachi zoku (1964) that depicts a post-human society where a half man half beast creatures live and they thrives metal from human and eat metal as their meals. What is interesting is that they use a unique language mixed with Osaka dialect and native American language shown in Hollywood film. And they seem to have some connection with the ethnic Korean society in Japan. Gardner argues that this work makes postwar Japanese history complex and unfamiliar by imagining a hybrid form of creature, Appach who are against the mainstream ideology of Japan; also, this tribe reveals a matter of survival from the memories of war trauma and the US occupation period.