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George Akiyama (1943-2020)
Hana no Yotaro 花のよたろう (1974-1979, Weekly Shonen Champion)
Hana no Yotaro 花のよたろう (1974-1979, Weekly Shonen Champion)
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Leading mangaka, rebel & enfant terrible, George Akiyama (real name Yuji Akiyama) is famous for his more controversial works such as Asura, Haguregumo and Kokuhaku
After only just graduating Junior high school, he got a job at Houmeido, a rental manga distributor with the dream of becoming a manga creator. Whilst working there he visited the home of manga artist Maetani Koremitsu every single day, in order to achieve his goal.
After working as a manga assistant, he made his debut with the gag-manga Gaikotsu-kun (1966). In 1970, Weekly Shonen Magazine serialized Akiyama's first really controversial manga series; Asura, which got the magazine pulled off the shelves due to the first chapter containing cannibalism. Asura was later adapted into a 75-minute anime film (Toei Animation, 2012)
Akiyama is probably best known and loved for his long-running manga series 'Haguregumo', which was serialized in Big Comic Original from 1973 to 2017 and won him the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award. The series was adapted into an anime film (MADHOUSE & Toei Animation, 1982)
Although Akiyama has always stated that he 'hated manga' and 'reading manga makes you stupid' and 'I've never read any of Tezuka Osamu 's work', he actually loved manga and had great respect for Tezuka Osamu, so much so that he had a framed photo of Tezuka on display.
After an interview for "The Disappeared Manga Artist" (1997) Torii Kazuyoshi (Docteur Toilette) explained that George Akiyama constantly tells lies but that this is his unique way of hiding his embarrassment !?
About Hana no Yotaro :
The series started out as 'Yotarou', a gag manga but from the second half of volume 2 it changes into a school story and thus the name changed to 'Hana no Yotaro'
Yotarou is the second son of a carpenter's family, a cheerful man despite his dysfunctional family not getting along very well. The general themes of this manga are friendship, justice, and hard work set in the hard sometimes cruel world of childhood !
After only just graduating Junior high school, he got a job at Houmeido, a rental manga distributor with the dream of becoming a manga creator. Whilst working there he visited the home of manga artist Maetani Koremitsu every single day, in order to achieve his goal.
After working as a manga assistant, he made his debut with the gag-manga Gaikotsu-kun (1966). In 1970, Weekly Shonen Magazine serialized Akiyama's first really controversial manga series; Asura, which got the magazine pulled off the shelves due to the first chapter containing cannibalism. Asura was later adapted into a 75-minute anime film (Toei Animation, 2012)
Akiyama is probably best known and loved for his long-running manga series 'Haguregumo', which was serialized in Big Comic Original from 1973 to 2017 and won him the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award. The series was adapted into an anime film (MADHOUSE & Toei Animation, 1982)
Although Akiyama has always stated that he 'hated manga' and 'reading manga makes you stupid' and 'I've never read any of Tezuka Osamu 's work', he actually loved manga and had great respect for Tezuka Osamu, so much so that he had a framed photo of Tezuka on display.
After an interview for "The Disappeared Manga Artist" (1997) Torii Kazuyoshi (Docteur Toilette) explained that George Akiyama constantly tells lies but that this is his unique way of hiding his embarrassment !?
About Hana no Yotaro :
The series started out as 'Yotarou', a gag manga but from the second half of volume 2 it changes into a school story and thus the name changed to 'Hana no Yotaro'
Yotarou is the second son of a carpenter's family, a cheerful man despite his dysfunctional family not getting along very well. The general themes of this manga are friendship, justice, and hard work set in the hard sometimes cruel world of childhood !
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