The reason why juvenile comics are loved by readers is because of the blood, fantasy and happiness in the story—these are all things that can be expected as a teenager.
Pranks that make people laugh, some slightly vulgar jokes, bridges, and it is also the norm for juvenile comics.
In order to attract more readers, many cartoonists will frantically test the scale and become a regular skill.
The initiator dates back to the late 1960s, the "evil book" that gave parents and teachers a headache.
In 1968, there was an atmosphere of uneasiness in the editorial board of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump.
Being at a sales disadvantage for a long time led them to make a risky decision to introduce adult-oriented works to attract a more purchasing group.
No one knows whether the decision was to save or destroy the magazine, which was obviously a gamble.
Finally, they pressed the treasure on a young man named Nagai Hao.
Weekly Shonen Jump
Go Nagai, real name, Akira Nagai, was born on September 6, 1945, and Was born in Japan.
As a young man, he was playful and playful, and he also had a great interest in painting, and he liked the works of Osamu Tezuka and Shiratori Mihei the most.
At the age of 19, Nagai fell seriously ill and almost died.
After a circle on the brink of death, he had an epiphany and left behind a bold remark.
"If you don't do anything, just die inexplicably, which is the most terrifying life."
Since then, he aspired to become a cartoonist.
Go Nagai
After graduating from high school, Nagai became an assistant to the famous manga artist Shotaro Ishimori.
He grew up rapidly in Akitaro Ishimori's studio and released his debut novel, Edo Nago Agi, in 1967.
This year, Fujio Akatsuka, who also studied with Osamu Tezuka, also studied with Osamu Tezuka, began serializing "Genius Myo Daddy", taking the "extreme stupid" spoof style to the extreme.
Nagai, who has not been an honest child since childhood, also intends to try this genre, so he submitted his new work to Weekly Shonen Jump.
Genius Wonderful Daddy
The story tells the story of a bearded teacher who is a color fan, and a group of young men and women.
And Weekly Shonen Jump needed this at this point.
In 1968, Nagai Hiroshi serialized "Breaking the Shame Academy" in the Weekly Shonen Jump.
Judging by the name, you know that this is not a serious comic.
And it is.
The story is full of many funny bridges, but also has a variety of light and harassment pictures, and use this as a selling point.
These actions, which seemed very surprising at the time, were favored by readers.
Shame-breaking school
In the eyes of parents and teachers, how can such plots and pictures appear in front of children, but teenagers whose bodies are full of young hormones do not care about this.
They just love this crazy farce, the provocative picture, and the ruthless satire of Japan's high-pressure education.
Manga quickly became popular in Japan, and even led to the development of Japanese miniskirts to a certain extent.
But the most crucial thing is to promote the practice of "rubbing the edge ball" in the work to every corner of the manga industry, and this trend has always affected the current anime.
Shame-breaking school
With this, Weekly Shonen Jump jumped to the top of the sales charts of similar publications, laying a solid foundation for ranking among the three major manga magazines in Japan.
However, Nagai saved Weekly Shonen Jump, but offended educators.
The scolding of public opinion has always been in the hands of apologists, who denounced the harm caused by "rogue books" and demanded that the youth policy department ban the work.
The magazine, which relied on the revival of "Shame Academy", chose to compromise and finally stopped serializing the manga in 1972.
Shame-breaking school
The so-called unloading and killing of donkeys is nothing more than this.
In his final words, Nagai, who was extremely disgruntled, drew all his opponents into the manga and killed them all with a school massacre to dispel the anger in his heart.
In any case, it can't change the ending of "Broken Shame Academy". The "shameless" trend it created has a far-reaching impact, but it is difficult to change the prejudices of the times.
One day in 1972, Nagai encountered a traffic jam.
When he was bored looking at the roadside scenery, he was attracted by a motorcycle driving into the container of the truck.
Nagai thought that if he could get inside the robots and control them to fight, such a setting would be very handsome.
Go Nagai
He immediately began to conceive the story and found a co-producer of animation, Prime Force Productions.
This work is "Demon God Z", an unprecedented manga based on the premise of being filmed into an animation, which is enough to influence the immortal masterpieces of the aircraft warfare world in later generations.
This was the first anime in Japan to control giant robot battles, and it was well received at the beginning of the series, and quickly grew into a subculture, and also spawned classic anime such as "Time Fortress" and "Gundam".
The success of "Demon God Z" laid the foundation for Nagai's status as a master in the manga industry.
Demon God Z
He set up his own studio that year, launching anime in a variety of styles, from the bloody and violent Demon Man to the female warrior genre SweetHeart Warrior.
It is worth mentioning that "SweetHeart Warrior" also created a precedent for the torn clothes of beautiful girls when they transformed.
Overall, Nagai maintains his consistent attitude towards manga when he debuted, from edge balls to bloody violence, and can do more eyeballs than dobo eyeballs.
Many of the younger generations who influenced this way, Hideaki Anno and Genfuchi, a series of "warriors of love", were his disciples, so he was also called "the founder of the bloody dark manga".
Sweetheart Warrior
Since his debut, Nagai has maintained a super high creative enthusiasm.
He was an excellent pioneer and a hard-working craftsman.
Nagai's works are all over the major manga magazines, and even though he has long since withdrawn from the front line, he still works hard, and at his peak he also serialized three manga books at the same time.
Maybe he was really afraid of what happened when he was 19 years old.
"To die without doing anything is the most terrifying life."
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