By : Eka Tresna
Setiawan*
Title : Izanagi x Izanami (The Story
of Gods from Sun Land)
Author :
Anton WP
Place, Publisher : Solo, BukuKatta
Edition : 9th Edition, 2013
Thickness : 96 Pages
Izanagi x Izanami
is a novel describing Japan myth story. Izanagi and Izanami were charactered as
gods. Actually, there are many god included the story. In fact, Izanagi and
Izanagi were not the first gods. Before
them, there was Ameno Minaka Nushi as the first god. He transformed from one
thing like bamboo bud.
I guess why
Izanagi and Izanami becoming the title of the book because they are the first
gods coming to the earth. In this novel, Izanagi and Izanami are only told in
its six first chapters. The novel consist of thirtty chapters. The book tells
us that the story was a hereditary chronology.
When
I read its synopsis, there are some examples of myth stories which is
introducted in many popular media like animation and comic. The writter tell us
about some myth characters in Naruto Comic. Amaterasu, Susanou and Tsukiyomi
which were technics of Uchiha Itachi are some examples of myth stories. In myth
stories, they are gods.
It was out of my expectation at the first I
saw the synopsis. I guessed there would be some correlation between the written
and Naruto’s story. I guessed the writter would tell me some Naruto’s story. In
fact, there’s no Naruto’s story at all.
More
than that, my guessing about Uchiha’s technics was not right at all. For
exmaple, Izanami was not a technic. It’s a god. In fact, there’s no similar
thing between Izanami as a technic and Izanami as a god. Izanami as a technic
is a technic to make sombody taking reality. Izanami in this novel was told not
as anything about taking reality.
The
story is full of prodigies. It could be knowledgeable. However, it’s a genre
which is telling about mythological story. There are many thing out of common
sense if we think by our sense nowadays. How could it be the truth even the
story is a provenance of Japan? Myth is myth. There are many myths in another
nation history beside Japan history.
The story is
related to Yamato Empire. Yamato Empire is none but Japan Empire. The first
emperor of Yamato was Wakanukenu. Wakanukenu came to be called Kamuyamato Iwarehito,
Yamato Emperor and Jimmu Emperor. Yamato Empire was told in the end of the
chapters, epilog.
Its
plot is very simple. Over all, it’s just a forward plot. That makes easy to get
the story. We don’t need to think too much when we read it. The forward plot
make us getting story chronological.
The
language of this book is very enjoying to read. Even though there’s only a
little of rhetoric sentence, over all it’s quite enough amusing. Simple plot,
simple language. It’s very easy to follow the story.
