Let's Manga

It's not an exaggeration to say that manga of the modern era is rooted in gekiga in terms of its way of expression. In that respect, gekiga deserves more recognition. It seems to me it is time to see the resurgence of the forgotten energy of anger in manga.

Don’t take everything that Satou Shuuhou is saying at face value, there definitely are people that are really poor even while having a regular serialization, but many of them are people who don’t know how to manage their finances properly and just work really slow. Manga can make a lot of money, so please don’t look at manga authors like they’re people that work a lot and get very little in return.

I felt there was something wrong with Shuuhou sensei’s choice to sell chapters that have been published on magazine through his personal website. Is Blackjack ni yoroshiku a manga that was created from the start to the end only by Satou Shuuhou (and his staff)? That is impossible. The magazine’s editors must have helped him somewhere along the line. Such as coming up with new ideas on what to write about, or helping to fix up any problems in the roughs.

The annonymous author Masuda had said that Blackjack ni yoroshiku would not have sold as much as it did if it didn’t run on Morning magazine. So just how many people would read an online manga which has had no publicity and is being distributed on a personal site? Being published on a magazine that is being circulated across the entire nation gives a lot of publicity.

Geert Hofstede & Intercultural Value Dimensions

Perper, Timothy and Cornog, Martha “Eroticism for the Masses: Japanese Manga Comics and Their Assimilation　into the U.S.”

For two Fridays in a row, researchers discussed the impact of popular Japanese culture on society and art in two separate, but related, symposia. Host of the March 6 symposium, Satoshi Ikeda (left) talks with Marc Steinberg, who spoke on anime figurines and art during the March 13 symposium. Currently a post-doc at McGill, Steinberg will join the Faculty of Fine Arts this summer. The March 6 event took a sociological perspective, while the March 13 event explored the impact of anime and manga on contemporary artistic practice.