Kazuichi Hanawa

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Kazuichi Hanawa ( Japanese 花 輪 和 一 , Hanawa Kazuichi ; born April 17, 1947 in Yorii , Saitama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

From 1970 he worked as an illustrator. After reading the works of Yoshiharu Tsuge , he decided to switch to comics. Hanawa brought his first work as a comic artist in 1971 with the short story Kan no Mushi ( か ん の む し ) about a boy whose mother sent him to a sadistic acupuncturist in the anti-commercial manga magazine Garo , for which he published in his following career mainly worked. From 1992 to 1994 he drew the manga series Tensui ( 天水 ) for the Afternoon magazine, which has a much higher circulation than Garo and similar underground publications. He became known to a wider audience through his work for Afternoon and other mainstream magazines such as Manga Action and Super Action . Hanawa has been working for AX , the successor to Garo, since 1998 .

In December 1994, he was arrested for possession of model guns and sentenced to three years in prison. He later processed his stay in detention in the manga Keimusho no Naka ( 刑 務 所 の 中 ), for which he was nominated for the 2001 Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize. This autobiographical work became a bestseller and was made into a live action film under the direction of Yoichi Sais in 2002 . Masanao Amano describes the “outstanding realism” of the work almost imposing itself on the reader. "Due to the documentary-like design without any sensationalism or political message, [the reader] is completely sucked into the work."

Hanawa is sometimes considered the successor of Yoshiharu Tsuge. At the beginning of his career he devoted himself to the eroguro style and drew erotic-grotesque works such as Akai Yoru ( 赤 ヒ 夜 ; about a samurai who rejects his thoughts of revenge and is urged to commit suicide by his wife) and Niku Yashiki ( 肉 屋 敷 ). Much of these works were parodies of militarism and the traditional values ​​of Japanese culture. From the beginning of the 1980s, his mangas were spiritually influenced by Buddhism and were mainly set in Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods and in a futuristic setting. The faces of his figures are reminiscent of Ukiyo-e ; his drawings are detailed and dark.

His work has been translated into English, Spanish and French. The short story Niku Yashiki was published in German under the title Jinku, Meat of Grace in Strapazin magazine.

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  1. According to other sources (such as Frederik L. Schodt's Dreamland Japan ) 1942.
  2. ^ A b Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan . P. 151.
  3. ^ Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan . P. 155.
  4. a b Masanao Amano: Manga Design . P. 412.
  5. Japan. As Viewed by 17 Creators . P. 227.
  6. Frederik L. Schodt. Dreamland Japan . Pp. 152-153.