The superstar of the manga industry has fallen, and there is no "Fujiko Fujio" in the world.

Today, a superstar in the comic book world has fallen.

Fujio Fujiko A (real name Ansun Tzu Suo) was found dead at Kawasaki's home at about 8:40 local time on the 7th of Japan, at the age of 88.

Many netizens are mourning, "Doraemon has no father since." ”

I think they are mostly the same as "Fujiko Fujio A" and "Doraemon" manga author "Fujiko · F. Fujio " confused. Because few people know, "Fujiko Fujio A" and "Fujiko · F. Fujio" These two manga artists used to be a pair.

The two manga writers once co-created under the pseudonym "Fujiko Fujio" and began their manga careers.

Now that the two manga masters have passed away, Xiao Luo will take advantage of today to tell you the story of these two "Fujiko Fujio"!

Fateful encounters

On December 1, 1933, Hiroshi Fujimoto was born in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture.

On March 10, 1934, An's grandson Suo was born in a Zen temple in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

An Sun Zi Su Xiong's father was the 49th abbot of Cao Dong Jong, and if nothing else, An Sun Zi Su Xiong should have become the next abbot of Cao Dong Jong.

However, the weather was unpredictable, and when An Sun Tzu Su Xiong was ten years old, his father died. The family moved from Toyama to Takaoka City in order to make ends meet.

Yasuko Suo also transferred from Toyama Izumi Elementary School to Takaoka City Dingzuka Elementary School. Here he met his lifelong best friend, Hiroshi Fujimoto.

Su Xiong, who had just transferred to a new school, had no one to talk to him during recess, so he had to paint alone. I didn't think anyone had come up to him and talk to him.

"You painted so well!" He looked up and saw that it was a very thin child, that is, Hiroshi Fujimoto. He asked Fujimoto, "Do you paint too?" Fujimoto then showed his painting to An Sun Zi Su Xiong, and When An Sun Zi Su Xiong saw it, he felt that he was much better than me.

Since then, the two have a good relationship, becoming like-minded good friends, and painting together every day. This relationship lasted until the end of elementary school, and when they were in middle school, the two went to different middle schools separately, and although they could not see each other often, they maintained close contact because they shared common interests and hobbies.

Where dreams begin

If drawing and drawing allowed the two of them to plant the seeds of friendship, then Osamu Tezuka's "New Treasure Island" was the opportunity to set the two on the path of professional manga artists.

At the age of 14, Hiroshi Fujimoto bought a manga called "New Treasure Island" and shared it with his good friend Yasuko Suo. Both of them were shocked when they read this comic book, thinking that this was a movie drawn on paper. Therefore, I am very eager to become a cartoonist and want to become a cartoonist.

In 1950, Fujimoto and Yasuko co-founded a manga fandom called "Little Sun" for students and friends to circulate. There is a certain gap between this fandom comic and modern comics, and it is more in the form of illustrations supplemented by words.

The two men's real manga work is the four-panel comic "Angel Ayu", published in the Daily Elementary School News in 1951, which tells the stories of angels that happen after they came to earth.

The two then wrote Ben-Hur, and before graduating from high school, they went to Tokyo to visit Osamu Tezuka and gave Ben-Hur as a gift to Osamu Tezuka.

The two of them thought that they might be able to get the teachings or corrections of their predecessors, but they didn't expect that after Osamu Tezuka saw it, he just said lightly, "Well, the painting is good." ”

Fujimoto and An's grandson Suo could not help but feel a little lost in their hearts, and returned to Toyama Prefecture overnight. What they don't know is that Osamu Tezuka didn't look at the manga as calmly as he did.

In Osamu Tezuka's World, published in 1977, the first meeting of the three was mentioned. After Hiroshi Fujimoto and Yasuko Suo left, Osamu Tezuka saved the manga, thinking to himself, "Maybe they will become his lifelong opponents in the future." ”

From "Fujio Azuma" to "Fujiko Fujio".

In early 1954, Yasuko Suo and Hiroshi Fujimoto formally formed a duo, and in order to express their admiration for their rival Osamu Tsukasa, their original pen name was set as "Fuji Ashizuka", "Fuji" was taken from the pronunciation of Fuji" and "Xiong" was Suo's "Xiong".

The two have written works such as "Forty Thousand Years of Drifting" and "Utopia, The Last World War" under the pseudonym "Fujio Azuma". The fledgling works of the two men at that time have now become ancient comics, and they are the coveted treasures of countless comic book collectors.

At the end of 1954, the two traveled to Tokyo together, became Osamu Tezuka's assistant, and moved into Tokiwaso, and his pen name was changed from "Azuma Fujio" to "Fujiko Fujio".

Both of them had imitated Osamu Tezuka's style and created science fiction manga in the early days of creation, but the two gradually realized that if they continued in this way, they might not be able to catch up with the teacher for the rest of their lives, and then decided to challenge new fields and try the daily fields that Osamu Tezuka had not set foot in.

The black history of being banned

Hiroshi Fujimoto and Suo Yasuko had an unknown black history in the early days of their creation, and were included in the "blacklist of manga artists" by many magazines.

This brings me to the new manga party formed by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Yasuko Suo, together with Naoya Mori, Takemaru Nagata, Saburo Ban, Hiroo Terada, and others.

Adhering to the purpose of cooperation and mutual assistance, the New Manga Party jointly researched and developed the manga business, and Hiroo Terada contacted various magazines, and members of the New Manga Party contributed articles together.

At that time, publications such as "Juvenile Club", "Manga King", and "Girl" all submitted manuscripts to the "Fujiko Fujio" duo, and the maximum number of manuscripts for the two reached 6 consecutive manga per month.

The workload can be imagined, even if the two spend all their time drawing, they still can't deliver the manuscript on time. In the face of the editor's crazy draft, the two finally could not withstand this huge workload, simply waved a big hand, and ran back to their hometown overnight.

As a publication for public sale, editors naturally do not tolerate such behavior. Editorial offices began working together to ban the two men, even blacklisting them as cartoonists.

After being banned, the two suffered a major blow and even wanted to give up at one point, but with the help and mediation of Terata, a member of the New Manga Party, the two were released from the blacklist of cartoonists by the editors, and they regained confidence to continue to create.

Disbanded "Fujiko Fujio"

In February 1964, "Yokai Q Taro" began serialization. The manga was well received by a wide range of readers, and the two began to flourish in their comic careers.

With works such as "Little Superman Pamen", "Cosmic Little Hairball", "Sour Plum Star Prince", "Doraemon AMon" (written by Hiroshi Fujimoto), "Ninja Elf", "Monster Jun", "Black Salesman" (by Yasuko Suo), etc., they made the pen name of "Tenko Fujio" resound throughout Japan.

The stylistic differences in the two comics became more and more obvious, and finally in 1987, the two decided to disband the group "Fujiko Fujio".

However, the dissolution of the group did not mean that the friendship between the two had come to an end, and both of them used the pen name Fujiko Fujio, and Anko's pen name was changed to Fujiko Fujio A, and Fujimoto Hiroshi changed his name to Fujiko Fujiko. F. Fujio.

Although the reasons for the dissolution of the two at that time were different, in the final analysis, it was because of the difference in the creative direction of the two.

Hiroshi Fujimoto has always maintained a pure childlike heart and focused on the field of children's manga, while Yasuko Suo realized that he might no longer be able to create such manga due to various factors, and became interested in youth manga.

As An Sun Tzu Su Xiong said, "He and I have known each other since the fifth grade of elementary school and have been moving forward side by side for more than fifty years. Because our painting styles are different, we only create the initial works together. Later, we all had to paint our favorite paintings, so we decided to disband. ”

The two of them disbanded and went on their respective creative paths.

Goodbye, two Fujiko Fujio

Until 2:10 a.m. on September 23, 1996, when Hiroshi Fujimoto was drawing Doraemon's large-length novel "The Adventures of Clockwork City", he suddenly lost consciousness and fainted, and died unexpectedly after being rescued.

Fujiko Fujio has been left with Fujiko Fujio A since then, and Yasuko Suo was asked by reporters after attending Fujimoto's funeral whether he would take Fujimoto's brush and continue to paint Doraemon.

An Sun Zi Su Xiong said, "That's the type I can't draw in my life."

After the departure of his best friend, An's grandson Suo continued to work hard, and in 2013 he completed his autobiographical manga "Manga Road".

Now that An Sun Tzu Su Xiong has also passed away, there is no fujiko fujio in the world.

It is undeniable that the two masters are the masters of the comic book industry and have left many excellent works to the world. Even more admirable is the decades-long friendship between the two men.

Yasuko Suo once said to the world, "Mr. Hiroshi Fujimoto is a traditional manga artist and a genius. Because I met him, I became a cartoonist. If I hadn't met him, I would never have been a cartoonist. If Fujimoto hadn't met me, then I don't think he would have become a manga artist, and it is my pride that the two have been inseparable for a long time, supporting each other and becoming manga artists. ”

Now he meets Mr. Fujimoto in heaven with this pride. Since then, there is no Fujiko Fujio in the world, two manga masters, all the way good.

Resources:

【NHK Manga Artist Fujio Fujio A】

【Saturday's Arashi friend Fujiko Fujio A】

"The Friendship Of Doraemon's Two "Dads": Having Their Childhood is a Kind of Luck", written by Aya Koji.

"The Mountain Breaks the Flowing Water, the Boya Loses Its Son Period - A Brief Analysis of the Dissolution of Fujiko Fujio", by Zhu Quanzhong.