O-ei Hokusai is a proper young lady, but she can draw dragons and courtesans just as well as any man. She is her father’s daughter, after all. He would be Katsushika Hokusai. Even if you do not know his name, you will recognize his most famous work: “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.” It turns out his daughter wasn’t just a chip off the wood-cut block. She was frequently an uncredited collaborator. Yet, she is never bitter, but rather pleasingly assertive and altogether charming in Keiichi Hara’s anime adaptation of Hinako Sugiura’s manga “Miss Hokusai.”
Katsushika Hokusai is a remarkable artist, but he is also arrogant and aloof. His daughter O-ei is pretty much the only other person he ever spares a thought for. Unfortunately, that includes Miss Hokusai’s little sister, O-nai, who lost her sight while still an infant and now lives a largely cloistered existence with her mother.
