Mitsuteru Yokoyama

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Mitsuteru Yokoyama ( Japanese 横山 光輝 , Yokoyama Mitsuteru ; born June 18, 1934 in Kobe , Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan ; † April 15, 2004 in Tokyo , Japan) was a Japanese manga artist . In his 40+ year career he created numerous well-known mangas; so he created one of the first representatives of the giant robo genre with his extremely popular Tetsujin 28-gō .

biography

Although Yokoyama had been drawing manga since 1950, he did not publish his first work as a professional draftsman until 1954 with Otonashi no Ken . Two years later he achieved his breakthrough with the series Tetsujin 28-gō , on which he worked for Shōnen magazine until 1966 . This approximately 2,100-page manga is about a young detective who uses a remote-controlled giant robot to fight evil. Tetsujin 28-gō was implemented as an 83-part anime television series and was even able to compete in popularity with Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy . Other science fiction works such as Giant Robo (1967) and Babel II (1971–1973) followed later .

While Tetsujin 28-gō and his other science fiction mangas were designed primarily for boys, he created imaginative shōjo comic series such as Otenba Tenshi (1959–1962) and Mahōtsukai Sally (1966–1967) for girls . Mahōtsukai Sally , which was inspired by the American television series In Love with a Witch and was published in the manga magazine Ribon like Otenba Tenshi , is about the princess of a magical world who goes to earth out of boredom, but does not have to hide her magic there . The animated film adaptation of the 340-page manga was the first Magical Girl anime.

In addition to his science fiction stories, his implementations of Japanese and Chinese history, which he mainly published in the magazine Kibō no Tomo (later renamed Comic Tom ) and on which he concentrated almost exclusively from the 1980s, have also been particularly successful . His longest work with around 12,000 pages in 60 anthologies is also a history manga - Sangokushi . This retelling of the story of the Three Kingdoms , on which he worked for fifteen years (1971–1986), was awarded the Prize of the Association of Japanese Cartoonists in 1991 and implemented as an anime series in the same year.

Yokoyama died on April 15, 2004 at the age of 69 in a nearby hospital as a result of a fire in his home in Tokyo. In 2004 he was posthumously awarded a second prize from the Association of Japanese Cartoonists for his life's work.

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 Bōken ( 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
  • Mahō Tsukai Sally (魔法 使 い サ リ ー , ~ Sarī ), 1966–1967
  • Kamen no Ninja Akakage ( 仮 面 の 忍者 赤 影 ), 1966
  • Suikōden ( 水滸 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 Gyōja ( 時 の 行者 ), 1976–1979
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu ( 徳 川 家 康 ), 1982-1984
  • Kōu to Ryūhō ( 項羽 と 劉邦 ), 1987-1992
  • Takeda Shingen ( 武 田信玄 ), 1987
  • Takeda Katsuyori ( 武田 勝 頼 ), 1988
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( 豊 臣 秀吉 ), 1989
  • Ghengis Khan ( チ ン ギ ス ハ ー ン , Chingisu Hān ), 1991
  • Shiki ( 史記 ), 1992-1997
  • Inshū Densetsu ( 殷周 伝 説 ), 1994–2001

Web links

Commons : Mitsuteru Yokoyama  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masanao Amano: Manga Design . P. 560.
  2. ^ Announcement from Yomiuri Online, April 15, 2004 ( Memento from April 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Yokoyama, Mitsuteru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 横山 光輝 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe , Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2004
Place of death Tokyo , Japan