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8 m e c h a d e m i a Tezuka’s Manga Life Mechademia An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and Fan Arts frenchy lunning, editor Mechademia is a series of books published by the University of Minnesota Press devoted to creative and critical work on anime, manga, and the fan arts. Linked through their specific but complex aesthetic, anime, manga, and the fan arts have influenced a wide array of contemporary and historical culture through design, art, film, and gaming. This series seeks to examine, discuss, theorize, and reveal this unique style through its historic Japanese origins and its ubiquitous global presence manifested in popular and gallery culture. Each book is organized around a particular narrative aspect of anime and manga; these themes are sufficiently provocative and broad in interpretation to allow for creative and insightful investigations of this global artistic phenomenon. Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human Mechademia 4: War/Time Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies Mechademia 6: User Enhanced Mechademia 7: Lines of Sight Mechademia 8: Tezuka’s Manga Life 8 m e c h a d e m i a Tezuka’s Manga Life Frenchy Lunning, Editor university of Minnesota Press minneapolis (cid:127) london “Designing a World” was excerpted from The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution (Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 2007); reprinted by permission. “Konchū shōjo no hōrōki” (Diary of an Insect Shōjo’s Vagabond Life) by Tezuka Osamu was first published in Manga Tokuhon (Showa 30) (September 5, 1955) and later reprinted in Kobayashi Junji, ed., Tezuka Osamu no konchū hakurankai (Tokyo: Isoppusha, 1998). “Tokiwaso monogatari” by Akatsuka Fujio was first published in COM (May–June 1970). “Unico” by Anno Moyoko was first published in Comic Cue 6 (1999) as a special issue of Tezuka Osamu Remixes. http://www.mechademia.org Spot illustrations by Rana Raeuchle Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota “Designing a World” copyright 2013 by Frederik L. Schodt All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Mechademia Editorial Staff Frenchy Lunning, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Ollie, Associate Editor Thomas Lamarre, Associate Editor Christopher Bolton, Associate Editor Wendy Goldberg, Submissions Editor Andrea Horbinski, Copy Editor Margherita Long, Online Review and Commentary Editor Miri Nakamura, Online Review and Commentary Editor Brian Ruh, Research Editor Editorial Board Gilles Poitras Brent Allison Marc Steinberg C. B. Cebulski Toshiya Ueno Patrick Drazen Theresa Winge Pamela Gossin Mark J. P. Wolf Marc Hairston Wendy Siuyi Wong John A. Lent Tom Looser Production Hajime Nakatani Michael Baxter Susan Napier Ursula Husted Abé Mark Nornes Rana Raeuchle Nora Paul Contents ix Introduction. Manga Life: Tezuka . . . THOMAS LAMARRE Nonhuman Life 3 “Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka’s Feminist Species MARY A. KNIGHTON 25 Diary of an Insect Shōjo’s Vagabond Life TEZUKA OSAMU TRANSLATED BY MARY A. KNIGHTON 34 Tezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism G. CLINTON GODART 49 Atom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu’s Essays in Insect Idleness LINDA H. CHANCE 61 On the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of Thought VERINA GFADER 73 The Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu’s Graphic Novels CHRISTINE L. MARRAN Media Life 89 Where Is Tezuka? A Theory of Manga Expression NATSUME FUSANOSUKE TRANSLATED BY MATTHEW YOUNG 109 Phoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and Anime RENATO RIVERA RUSCA 127 Copying Atomu MARC STEINBERG 137 Tokiwasou Story AKATSUKA FUJIO TRANSLATED BY MATTHEW YOUNG A Life in Manga 155 Toward a Theory of “Artist Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the Artist HASHIMOTO YORIMITSU TRANSLATED BY BARYON TENSOR POSADAS 173 Manga Shōnen: Katō Ken’ichi and the Manga Boys RYAN HOLMBERG 195 Implicating Readers: Tezuka’s Early Seinen Manga FUJIKI HIDEAKI 214 Tezuka’s Anime Revolution in Context JONATHAN CLEMENTS 228 Designing a World FREDERIK L. SCHODT 243 Unico ANNO MOYOKO TRANSLATED BY MATTHEW YOUNG Everyday Life 251 An Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku Culture ŌTSUKA EIJI TRANSLATED BY THOMAS LAMARRE 279 Osamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in Akihabara PATRICK W. GALBRAITH 299 Tezuka, Shōjo Manga, and Hagio Moto HORI HIKARI 313 Out of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima’s Long Shadow ALICIA GIBSON 322 Wolf Head in Phoenix UENO TOSHIYA 336 Contributors This page intentionally left blank Introduction thoMas laMarre MANGA LIFE: TEZUKA . . . In 2004, the art quarterly ARTiT published the results of its survey on manga artists. Among the one hundred and nineteen Japanese artists who replied to a question about which manga artist they preferred or felt had infl uenced them greatly, Tezuka Osamu received the greatest number of mentions, top- ping the list. It is diffi cult not to share the sense of surprise, disappointment, and even outrage expressed by art historian Yamashita Yūji: “Really? Tezuka Osamu? . . . I was rather surprised that all these artists were such ordinary children.” 1 Yamashita had expected Otomo Katsuhiro, Matsumoto Taiyō, or Okazaki Kyōko to win top honors, not to mention his personal favorite, Tsuge Yoshihara. His sense of disappointment in the continued ascendency of Tezuka serves as a reminder that the value of Tezuka’s works is determined not only by their inherent qualities but also by the mode of measurement: if Tezuka winds up on top today, even among young artists, it is in Yamashita’s opinion because the mode of measurement selects for a particular quality— the ordinary. Th is interpretation suggests that Tezuka’s success is due to the very ubiq- uity of his work, which is related to its sheer volume and its industrial posi- tioning: Tezuka wrote several hundred manga titles, initially serialized in a variety of magazines, while also working on animated fi lms and television se- ries, both adaptations of his manga and original animations. Such production was made possible by the rise of the editorial system in the context of manga ix
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