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In order to understand Osamu Tezuka, I bought 4 books, Osamu Tezuka's autobiography, two books that teach drawing (manga class), and an original art collection; hayao Miyazaki's autobiography and the first and second sets of hayao Miyazaki also bought.
First of all, talk about these books, give some advice to people who want to buy these books, don't buy Miyazaki's autobiography (starting point, rebate point), don't buy, don't buy, I bought it from beginning to end and then sold it, when I bought it, more than 300, 1 day later 9.9% of the new 100 packs of mail came out on the idle fish.
First of all, the word is a vertical version of traditional characters, because it is a Taiwanese version, it is very uncomfortable to read, and secondly, the content is simply shoddily made, Miyazaki himself wrote very little, all are interviews and interviews, the jump is too big, it is very uncomfortable to watch.
Several of Osamu Tezuka's books are very interesting, especially the following two books, "I Am a Manga Artist" and "The Birth of Doctor Black Jack".
The previous one was an autobiography written by Osamu Tezuka himself, he actually wanted to continue to write, but he did not write it, only wrote this half, which has the story of Tezuka's teenagers, many ideas for manga creation, some tidbits in front of and behind the stage, rich and interesting content, and there are many precious manga materials and illustrations behind it.
The latter is a manga drawn by Koji Yoshimoto and original by Katsuru Miyazaki, a realistic manga that tells the story of Osamu Tezuka from the perspective of God, and in order not to spoil it, it is deeply touching, and I want to read it again, and this one can be read on the manga website.
If you want to analyze Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki, it is not enough to look at their works.
Osamu Tezuka is a manga artist and Hayao Miyazaki is an animation director, so when you read manga, you can make up your mind and imagine, so even if the manga artist doesn't draw a lot of things, it's funny to just think about it yourself.
Comics are a process of active thinking in which you are also using your brain.
Animation is a compact work arranged by the director, and like film and television works, it must always be watched attentively, and it will not leave too much room for the audience to think when watching, which is actually a process of passive appreciation.
If we analyze it from the perspective of characters, most of Osamu Tezuka's works are original works written by himself, such as "Astro Boy", "Strange Doctor Black Jack", "Bird of Fire", "Qizi", etc., and even adaptations, such as "Buddha" (adapted from the biography of Shakyamuni) and "My Sun Wukong" (adapted from journey to the West), have also made great changes to the original story.
To take the more familiar Journey to the West as an example, a fragment in Osamu Tezuka's "My Son Goku" is "Born of a Stone Monkey": after a monkey came out of a stone, he sat under a tree and thought about life, but was lifted up by a group of monkeys and thrown into the sea, it turned out that they were holding the first contest of waiting for the mountain, throwing a persimmon into the sea, competing for who could catch this persimmon.
Because the stone monkey is made of stone, he quickly sank to the bottom of the sea, obtained persimmons, and became the king of monkeys, not only that, he also found a mysterious underground cave water curtain hole at the bottom of the sea. Then he met the Chaos Demon King here, and brought all the monkeys here, very comfortable life, but because he had a dream, dreaming that he was captured by humans for an exhibition, he decided to practice the Immortal Path and went to the Three Star Cave of Lingtai Mountain...
Osamu Tezuka's early works were for young children, at that time there was no manga grading system in Japan, and with the improvement of the author's manga level and screenwriting ability, more and more manga readers began to be picky, and children's manga could not meet their needs, so Tezuka's works began to transform into youth manga.
A large number of stories full of depictions of human nature and social problems appear in his works, mainly in the 1970s, such as "Doctor Strange Black Jack", which is mixed with social chaos, "Qizi", which satirizes political ugliness and middle-class bad habits, "Dororo" that satirizes war and the ugly side of human nature through monsters, and even "Buddha", which adapts the biography of Buddha Shakyamuni.
It is difficult to avoid the topic of "war" in the works of Osamu Tezuka, because Osamu Tezuka's youth was spent in the war of World War II.
In 1935, Osamu Tezuka was 7 years old, but the country was shrouded in an atmosphere of war for all, until the end of 1945, Tezuka stood in the ruins of Japan was 17 years old, and the most precious youth was spent in war, so Tezuka hated war, because the war took his youth only once in his life.
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The japanese people's thinking during the war was extremely distorted, and Shigeru Mizuki, another manga artist who was forced to participate in the war and became a Japanese soldier in World War II, said in his autobiography that his parents sent their sons to the troop carrier and told them that the greatest honor was not to come back alive! The people of the whole country are sending young people to their deaths. However, Shigeru Mizuki's parents were an exception, and Shigeru Mizuki said in an interview at the college of agricultural school that he had learned this to paint, and everyone except him answered that he had come to reclaim these barbarabalas in foreign colonies. Father said to Shigeru Mizuki, the only one who fell behind, isn't that a lie in that answer, what if you go abroad to die as a soldier because you said that? It's good not to go to such a school.
Osamu Tezuka first came into contact with "animation" in such a youth, and in 1942, "Princess Iron Fan", released in Japan, was a patriotic animation produced by the Wan brothers in the occupied area of Shanghai, China, and the other was "Mootaro's Sea Vulture" produced by the Japanese Admiralty in 1943, from which Osamu Tezuka had the idea of becoming a manga artist and worked in the direction of animation all his life.
Miyazaki's animation is also divided into two periods like Osamu Tezuka (children's manga and youth manga), everyone thinks that the white-bearded grandfather Miyazaki is very kind with a smile, in fact, Miyazaki was very radical when he was young, miyazaki hayao, who had just entered Tokyo in 1963, came into contact with a Soviet animation "Snow Queen", was deeply moved, and began to devote himself to animation and accepted Marxist beliefs.
He always expressed his affirmation of the working people and the revolution.
This belief was only abandoned by Miyazaki after the 1997 "Princess Mononoke" anime.
Unlike Osamu Tezuka's "Princess Iron Fan", which influenced Osamu Tezuka, Miyazaki's lifelong influence was "The Snow Queen", when he also met a lifelong close friend, director Takahata Hoshi, who was older than him.
When Takahata died in 2018, the last sentence of Miyazaki's eulogy ended like this:
"Apu (Takahata's nickname), we've worked so hard to live in those past times. Your posture will stay with us. Thank you, Apu. I will never forget Apu who came to talk to me on that rainy bus stop 55 years ago. ”
Miyazaki never forgot the 60s 55 years ago, when I first watched "The Snow Queen" and met my best friends.
Gelda and Guy are a pair of inseparable friends, one day Guy said bad things about the Ice Queen, the Queen cast a spell on Guy, he became cold and never played with Guy again, seeing Guy's transformation, Gelda was very sad, once Guy deliberately bullied Gailda, Gelda while crying and comforting and not caring about his Guy said that he did not cry.
The Snow Queen came to take Guy away, Gelda embarked on an adventure in order to retrieve her little friend Guy II, encountered a comfortable magic manor on the way, in order to walk and finally walked barefoot, experienced countless difficulties, Galda finally defeated the Snow Queen to save her little friend.
The reason why this anime had a great influence on Miyazaki was because Miyazaki, who had just entered Toei at that time, had a meager salary and was not valued for work, and in fact, a straw could completely crush you when people were most vulnerable, but at this time, it was not a straw but a hope, and Takahata Hoon, a close friend who had a comrade-in-hand, met Miyazaki Hayao.
"The Snow Queen" resonates with these two young people in adversity, and it is the real-life Gelda and Guy.
In 1965, the two teamed up to produce "The Adventures of the Sun Prince Halls", which is a completely overhead SF animation, which can be understood as an animated ballad that is full of intestines, and the two young people spent a huge amount of money on the company to play with their own feelings, because of the Marxist beliefs of the two, "The Sun Prince" actually contains a lot of metaphors for the Vietnam War at that time.
"The Prince of the Sun" cost 130 million yen and was released in 1968 after a box office fiasco, which led to the demotion and forced resignation of Takahata and many others.
Many of Miyazaki's works in the 1970s were adaptations, and this kind of adaptation is to show novels and manga in an animated manner, which is very different from Osamu Tezuka's equivalent of a second original adaptation, because of the authorization and assistance of the original author, so it is necessary to faithfully restore the original work as much as possible.
My predecessor, Golden IC, wrote a book review and highly recommended Tezuka's "Anyone Can Draw Manga"
For example, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", Kazuo kazuoka's original manga "Lupin III", Johanna's novel "Heidi" adaptation of "Alpine Girl", Edmundo's "From the Apennines to the Andes" novel adaptation of "Three Thousand Miles to Find Mother".
Even the later "Hal's Moving Castle", adapted from Diana Wayne Jones' novel of the same name.
The biggest difference between Miyazaki and Osamu Tezuka is that the former is good at portraying a person, while the latter is good at depicting sentient beings.
In Osamu Tezuka's works, there are usually many protagonists, no, more accurately, there is a corresponding protagonist in each stage of the story.
For example, in 1972's "Buddha", the protagonist of the first three volumes is Chapra of Shudra, who wants to become a warrior, and finally dies abroad with his mother.
In Miyazaki's original animation, the protagonist chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away is the daughter of his old friend Makoto Okuda; the protagonist of "The Goldfish Princess on the Cliff" is the mermaid in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale; although Miyazaki's animated protagonist also has a prototype in life as a reference, his character is detached from reality, and it is easy to understand that it is illusory when integrated with the SF overhead animation worldview.
However, the role of Osamu Tezuka is very profound, surrounded by such people, especially the psychological activities of the characters sometimes hit people's hearts, and we even get the confirmation of the works of Osamu Tsuka in the details of our own growing environment.
Osamu Tezuka likes to observe life and bring life feelings into manga, while Miyazaki brings his thoughts, experiences, and feelings into animation.
Miyazaki's favorite manga as a teenager was Tetsuji Fukushima's Desert Demon King, an adventure manga with an elevated worldview, which Miyazaki's later anime Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky imitated.
The Miyazaki family is a family of aviation, so he is very interested in airplanes, so he has appeared more than once in his works, such as "Porco Rosso" flying older airplanes, "Castle in the Sky" and "Witch House Rush" in the air thieves and flying broomsticks.
Looking at the characters in Osamu Tezuka's works, there is no good or evil, only to follow their own hearts, good people and bad people must finally usher in the last moment, and everyone survives according to their own behavior logic.
The last page of Osamu Tezuka's autobiography contains a poem by Chief Le:
There are three kinds of steps in "time": the future is long overdue, the present flies like an arrow, and the past is forever still.