The story of the manga: Much more than just drawings

June 04, 2019 at 22:07 a.m.


The story of the manga: Much more than just drawings


Caricature characters with real touches, big eyes and deep and fantastic stories have characterized throughout manga history.

These Japanese comic books created at the end of the 19th century, were literally translated as "Capricious drawings or scribbles"By Hokusai Katsushika, master of the Ukiyo-e, who is also awarded the word manga, for his greatest collection of works, Hokusai Manga.

The evolution of the manga

 

The manga although it is traced in the scrolls of the twelfth century, has its prime work in 1902, with Tagosaku to Mokube not Tokyo Kenbutsu, from the cartoonist Rakuten Kitazawa.

Its evolution as we know it now was influenced by the social and economic needs of a Japan disturbed after World War II, as well as Western art derived from cartoons and comics.

The god of manga

 

That terrible post-war moment also inspired Osamu Tezuka, known as the god of manga, who lived to transmit with his drawings optimistic, humanitarian and environmental messages in Japan.

Through Shin Takarajima (The new Treasure Island), Jungle Taitei (Kimba, the white lion), Tetsuwan Atom (Astroboy) and Ribbon No Kishi (The princess knight), the father of manga expanded and spread the reading and consumption of manga in a postwar Japan.

The Japanese artist created the first manga of the shojo genre with The princess knight and continued with the elaboration of more complex and profound issues such as homosexuality, the use of chemical weapons and political corruption.

Hi no Tori (Phoenix), black Jack, Buddha y Adolf, were other of his great successes, until he died to the 60 years because of stomach cancer, in 1989.

Today, the manga continues to have great influence among its Japanese and foreign readers and has managed to survive the times. one piece (1997), written and illustrated by Eiichirō Oda It is the best selling manga in the world, with more than 406 million copies.

And if these Japanese art greats have coincided, it is in the transmission of social and human messages that are sorely needed in times of crisis, and that they continue to inspire children and young people to read and believe in a world where everything is possible. .