Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Mitsuteru Yokoyama (Japanese横山 光辉, Yokoyama mitsuteru; born June 18, 1934 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, † April 15, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan ) was a Japanese manga artist. In his more than forty year career, he created numerous popular manga; so he created his wildly popular Tetsujin 28- gō one of the first representatives of the Giant Robo- genres.

Biography

Although Yokoyama recorded since 1950 manga, he published his first work as a professional artist in 1954 with Otonashi no Ken. Two years later he succeeded with the series Tetsujin 28- gō the breakthrough, which he continued until 1966 worked for the magazine Shōnen. In this approximately 2,100-page comprehensive manga is about a young detective who fights evil with the help of a remote-controlled giant robot. Tetsujin 28- gō was implemented as a 83- episode anime television series and could measure up in popularity even with Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy. Later followed by other science fiction works such as Giant Robo (1967) and Babel II ( 1971-1973 ).

While Tetsujin 28- gō and his other science fiction manga were designed primarily for boys, for girls, he created imaginative Shōjo comic series like Otenba Tenshi ( 1959-1962 ) and Mahotsukai Sally ( 1966-1967 ). Mahotsukai Sally, which was inspired by the American television series Bewitched and the same as Otenba Tenshi published in the manga magazine Ribon, is about the princess of a magical world that goes from boredom to the earth, but there does not have to hide their magical powers. The animated film adaptation of the 340 -page manga was the first Magical Girl Anime.

In addition to his science-fiction stories, especially his reactions of Japanese and Chinese history have had success, which he (later renamed in comic Tom ) published mainly in the magazine Kibo no Tomo and on from the 1980s, he focused almost exclusively. His with a circumference of about 12,000 pages in 60 anthologies longest work is also a historical manga - Sangokushi. This retelling of the story of the Three Kingdoms, where he worked for fifteen years (1971-1986), was in 1991 awarded the Prize of the Association of Japanese comic artist and implemented in the same year as the anime series.

As a result of a fire at his home in Tokyo Yokoyama died on 15 April 2004 at the age of 69 years at a nearby hospital. Posthumously he was awarded in 2004 for his life's work a second prize of the Association of Japanese comic artist.

Works (selection)

  • Otonashi no Ken (音 無し の 剣), 1954
  • Tetsujin 28- gō (鉄 人28号), 1956-1966
  • Otenba Tenshi (おてんば 天使), 1959-1962
  • Gorō no Boken (五郎 の 冒険), 1959-1962
  • Shōnen Rocket Butai (少年 ロケット 部隊), 1960-1963
  • Iga no Kagemura (伊賀の影丸), 1961-1966
  • Maho Tsukai Sally (魔法使い サリー, ~ Sari ), 1966-1967
  • Kamen no Ninja AKAKAGE (仮面の忍者赤影), 1966
  • Suikoden (水浒 伝), 1967-1971
  • Giant Robo (ジャイアント ロボ, Jaianto Robo ), 1967
  • Babel II (バビル2世, Baberu 2 -sei ), 1971-1973
  • Sangokushi (三国 志), 1971-1986
  • Abare Tendō (あばれ 天童), 1974
  • Ōkami no Seiza (狼 の 星座), 1975
  • Toki no Gyoja (時 の 行者), 1976-1979
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳 川 家 康), 1982-1984
  • Kou to Ryuho (項羽と劉邦), 1987-1992
  • Takeda Shingen (武 田信玄), 1987
  • Takeda Katsuyori (武田 胜 頼), 1988
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊 臣 秀吉), 1989
  • Ghengis Khan (チンギス ハーン, Chingisu Han ), 1991
  • Shiki (史记), 1992-1997
  • Inshū Densetsu (殷周 伝 説), 1994-2001
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