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Showa:History of Japan 1953-1989 by Mizuki Shigeru [message #301926] Tue, 06 October 2015 21:24
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Hi readers and posters,
This was delivered today.
I finished reading it a few minutes ago. But I was too tired
to finish this note last night so finally think i had pulled it together.

Worth the pittance they charge. Includes a lot of color plates
after the bunka notes. These were in the original Japanese editions.
They cover the whole series and run the gamut from touching in dealing
with childhood to frightening over the War Period and remind us that
Mizuki spent a good part of his youth painting.

I mention in the spoilers a bit of what transpires in this
fourth and final volume of the series but you are really safe from
spoilers because I can in no way show you the art and the events
are a matter of public record as he covers the miseries, crimes
and politics of that period with a few comments from his mother and
father before they exit. Not to mention that Nosumi Otoko aka
Rat-man does most of the public event narration. He is accompanied
by at least 2 other yokai much of the time.

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Shigero lost an arm during the ware remember? and
had to teach himself to execute his art one-handed and as his work
became more marketable as he moved from doing scrolls for story tellers,
to rental manga, and finally magazines. As the magazines wanted more
work he hired assistants. More stories about the
assistants' foibles and relationships. Uses other mangaka of
the period for more stories and episodes.
Mizuki-sensei the mangaka, struggles though years of poverty before he
hits it good with Rocket-man, a riff on Superman. Then he was forced by
his parents to marry at 40 very quickly.
Largely he speaks through Rat-man and introduces us to the human
person on whom Rat-man was modeled. He introduces us to some of his
dreams and nightmares as well as revisiting the jungles of New Guinea
first with a former comrade in arms the alone and finally with his
Japanese family. He helps out the people who had as younger folks
and even children had helped him survive in war time.

Finely the Showa Emperor passes on and Misuki-sensei goes
on to greater renown with his Showa: A comic history of Japan originally
published in 8 volumes and being a best selling book and winning
Mizuki-sensei a big prize. He finished the series around the time of
Showa's exit which gave him a bit of head start on other books
that might be written about the Emperor and his times, plus it
was also Shigero's autobiography...

The whole series is a magnificent production.

bliss
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