#1960s manga

[asnowperson]

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer), 1818.

Mizuno Hideko, Heliotrope Love (ヘリオトロープの恋, Heliotrope no Koi), 1969.

Different mediums, different artists, but similar vibes...

[zatsu-manga-dump]

Magazine : Gekkan Norakuro (Monthly Norakuro), circa 1964-1965

This monthly manga magazine ran between 1964 and 1965 (approx.). It was aimed as a "family manga magazine", and featured Norakuro stories, manga that were previously published in the Shounen Club magazine, as well as what seems to be exclusive manga not related to Norakuro.

Norakuro was a pretty popular character at the times, and a lot of goodies were being sold. The original manga ran for 10 years in Shounen Club (1931-1941). It was a decision of the Japanese military to stop the serialization of the manga.

It depicted the life of Norakuro, who was in the military. It apparantly depicted war in a fun way according to the few panels and posts on the Internet I read, however I must admit I am not able to judge how much it was war propaganda, and how much it wasn't, since I couldn't access the source material myself.

One of the first issues (if not the first) of the magazine, featuring Boukendan Kichi (Keizou Shimada, 1933-1939) and Robot Santoudai (Koremitsu Maetani, 1958-1962). (Source)

1965/3 issue

1965/11 issue, featuring its table of content, and the front page of 2 manga chapters : Gisou (Norakuro, Suihou Tagawa) and Songoku (Shigeru Sugiura). Songoku is a short manga exclusive to Gekkan Norakuro that ran for 2-3 chapters in 1965.

1965 New Year issue

1965/4 issue

1965/5 issue

Sources: Wikipedia 1 2 3 4 5 + various auctions sites for the pictures.

[welcometopulpland]

Look at this knockoff translation of the Kenya Boy (少年ケニヤ) manga adaptation by Kyuuta Ishikawa (石川球太)!

[himitsusentaiblog]

[cuckoobananapeel]

I drew... BATMAN!!!

If you couldn't already tell, my brainrot is exclusive to both Batman series and Batman 1966. So I drew Batman from 1966.

Here's the Joker, too, from my previous post, but cropped and with an alt black-and-white version.

[keybladespirit]

If you are any kind of minority, you NEED to read Astro Boy.

This might, at first glance, look like me pointing at a protest and superficially comparing it to a Pride protest. But the context of this panel is that cops have introduced a bill that would make it illegal to make the specific robot parts that allow robots to exist as people.

This was kicked off by a crime committed by a robot whose self-defined purpose was to entertain people as a magician. Supposedly, he committed a crime using his magic tricks, which to cops petitioning for the bill was proof enough that robots shouldn't be allowed to do anything not useful to humans.

This started as a fun story about Astro Boy fighting an evil human magician who wanted to steal the robot magician's tricks.

Another story, The Hot Dog Corps, starts as a mystery involving an army of robot soldiers who are somehow able to harm humans something robots are not able to do in this world and turns into like, one of the top ten intentional trans allegories of all time when one of them defects and starts helping Astro Boy.

And it does all of this while perfectly walking the impossibly thin line between real commentary on systemic issues and kid-friendly Saturday morning cartoon villainy. Like yes, Deadcross is cartoonishly evil in his desire to mind control the world's first robot president into abolishing robot rights in his country and then leaving office, but his anti-robot bigotry is exactly the same as a lot of racism and transphobia and other bigotry that I've seen and experienced in the world.

Like honestly I feel like this is so good that it should be taught in schools. Like, third grade or so.

Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy. Read Astro Boy.

[popping-your-culture]

[meringuejellyfish]

adaptations that are a deliberate alternate telling of a story arent all that crazy to me (and also sometimes its as simple as someone like o'malley saying "the books already exist") ive been quite fascinated by this concept for a long time but alas i do not have many examples of this off the top of my head. but i do love picking apart adaptations and differences as a general thing. hoho !

[theatrepup]

"I'm not just 'the man who disappeared from The Stones.' I'm the musician, Brian Jones."

From the manga The Shiori Experience, featuring Brian and the 27 Club.

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Record And Book Set - JQ (Johnny Quest) (c.1960's) (Japanese)

[myretrogamehub]

Astro Boy 1963 vs 1980.

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Batman manga from the 1960s, with art by Jiro Kuwata, co-creator of 8 Man.

[piratespencil]

What if you read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and asked, “What if the child was determined to escape their fate? Would it be morally right to help this child be free, knowing you would be dooming thousands to starvation and poverty and despair? Or would it be morally right to stop this child, even kill this child, to protect those thousands? And what if the child, in order to escape their fate, had to do terrible things? Had to hurt and kill? Is that child still innocent? Even as they get older? At what point does that child become a monster, even if they are a monster of your making? It is not enough to walk away - the child is here, at your doorstep. What will you do?”

If any of that sounds interesting to you then you should watch Dororo (2019), a one season anime that is pretty much exactly this concept except it’s set in feudal Japan and involves demon hunting.

[nikkiredfox14]

TBHK and 60s Film making

The reason Mitsuba may still be on the "bad guy side" is because since TBHK is based off 1960s, in film making back in those days gays couldn't be good guys because being gay was "evil" and you can't let the bad guys win it was even illegal ...Now, of course Mitsuba is far from evil. But he would scare the crap out of a hateful old man lmfao That and times have changed. But, this could be the very reason why Tsukasa is portrayed as "evil" even if his intentions are good and his heart is pure. It could also be the reason Mitsuba refuses to join Kou on the "good guy side". Does that make sense?

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[boyrobott]