The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611720257 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 928 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Schodt is a translator, conference interpreter, and award-winning author of books on Japanese history and pop culture. After working for a period as a free-lancer, he later re-joined Tezuka Productions in 1978 as the sub-chief of manga production for magazines, supporting Tezuka's creative work until the end.Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd., is the now-legendary company founded by Osamu Tezuka in 1968 to produce his own manga and anime. This graphic-format biography of Osamu TezukaJapan's "God of Manga"looks at one of the twentieth century's great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black
This book is a necessary reference for Tezuka fans and a historical document providing insight into the philosophy, creation and manufacture of manga."Shelf Awareness. One of Publishers Weekly'sBest Summer Books of 2016"Beautifully doneentertaining, heartwarming, and quite sad in places, the warmth and charm that defined Tezuka’s work has been captured here an essential book to own."Forbes"The Osamu Tezuka Story offers a reverent and candid review of Tezuka, in a style that memorializes and mirrors his artistic sensibilities--conceptually rich landscapes, clean, complex lines and extreme attention to movement and expression
You'll learn a lot and you'll want more of Tezuka's manga R. P. Glass THE OSAMU TEZUKA STORY is a wondrous, red brick of a book. It is a life-spanning yet intimate biography [in long-form manga] of the man who would become post-WWII Japan’s manga no kami-sama, “God of Manga”, in order to finance his experimental and commercial anime which went on to win film festival prizes globally for more than a decade.Originally collected and published in 1992. Mynetcard said Five Stars. Awesome. Glad I bought this :). Benjamin Boylan said All Good Times, Glosses Over the Bad Times. It's a good book but leaves out a lot. What happened with the animation studio? Doesn't the author know more about why Tezuka was asked to step down as president? Why did it go bankrupt? Whose fault was it? He showed 50 times everyone being amazed with Tezuka compulsively working, why not explain this?How about a little more about his wife? What was her opinion about the fact he was a workaholic?