His tombstone reads:
"He's on a trip to Ultraman."
*This article is authorized to be reproduced from the machine core network
Have you noticed that in the "Pacific Rim 2" released some time ago, there has always been a word with a somewhat abrupt pronunciation in the lines, "kaiju".
kaiju is an imported word in English, referring to "weird beast". It is the same as the early English words such as bonsai (bonsai), ramen (ramen), origami (origami), and later karaoke (karaoke), otaku (otaku), manga (manga), etc., and the etymology is from Japanese.
This seems a bit bizarre.
If we understand monsters as mysterious creatures in the general sense, terrifying, large, destructive, then this image appears in traditional cultures all over the world, and it is not the turn to become original to the Japanese.
So why did the kaiju culture trigger a national boom in Japan and then go global, with such an impact that it even generated an imported word in English?
Regarding the popularity of close-ups and monsters, you may think of many powerful characters: Eiji Ryo Tani, Ryo Takayama, Akio Shishiro, Honta Inoshiro...
But what we want to talk about today is another creator who has made great achievements and has a strange brain but died young- Shoji Daisuke.
There is a theory that Ultraman can only play on the ground for three minutes, which was first proposed by Masaji Daisuke, and he also offended Eiji Ryotani and was warned not to step into the company.
Of course, more people know da Mate, because he is the author of the famous "Monster Picture Book", the strange man who is keen to split the monsters in half and then "rigorously" draw a cross-section.
Masashi Daisuke is a pen name, and his original name was Shitomoto Toyoshi. Speaking of the origin of the eldest partner, there is a sense of family origin, and his parents are famous cultural people.
Her mother, Aiko Shichimoto, was one of the few female columnists and journalists of the time, and her father was the international journalist Shichihachiro Motomoto, and she had a very strong father-son relationship with manga artist Kazuhira Okamoto and artist Taro Okamoto (creator of the Tower of the Sun). Taro Okamoto has lived in Paris for many years, and when he first arrived in the United States, he was taken care of by his father, who had studied in the United States.
The international father had a great influence on his later creations, as his father was transferred to Mexico shortly after his birth.
Growing up in Aztec culture, daimyo's obsession with surreal things (monsters and sf novels) was entirely due to the fact that he saw too many pyramids and stone statues as a child.
At the age of 22, daima entered Keio University to study, joined Keio's Mystery Novel Fan Club, and began her creative career. In 1963, at the age of 27, he began to participate in the production of the newly established Sōgaya Stunts, and became a founding elder.
The first project that Daisuke participated in was the first work of the Company in early 1963, which was originally intended to be produced and broadcast by Fuji Tv.
Since "Woo" was The first time Thataya was tested on television, and the American science fiction dramas of the sixties were particularly popular, the "Woo" project was full of stars at the beginning of the project, and the people who provided the original case were not only Daisuke, but also Masayoshi Fukushima, Ryo Hanmura, Mitsuse, Komatsu Sakyo, and Hoshi Shinichi, and half of the Japanese science fiction community has arrived.
It's just that the companion did not debut because of this drama, because "Woo" suffered a miscarriage in the planning stage that year, and it was not born smoothly at all, leaving only a mysterious project remnant full of mysteries for unknown posterity to see, like an Aztec pyramid.
The popular "Monster Illustrated Book" annoyed Eiji Ranani
Although his close-up debut was in vain, a year later, he caught up with another good opportunity.
In 1964, after Woo, the original work of the Ultraman series, ウルトラq (Otq), began production until it aired in 1966, and Daiko was involved in the design and planning from the beginning.
And like later in "Cosmic Hero Ultraman", Ultraman can only fight for 3 minutes, the "Cosmic Dinosaur" Jetton's one-mega-degree fireball move that appeared in the last episode, etc., are all the ideas of the big partner.
In the same year that "Otter Q" was broadcast, The Companion began to publish her famous work "Monster Picture Book". The book laid the foundation for his best-known style, in which he split all the monsters in half and meticulously drew the anatomy of these fantasies.
In the catalogue, Da Mate designed a detailed cross-sectional structure for each monster, restoring the monster's physiological structure, circulatory system, internal organs, muscle direction, bone composition and even superpower supply system as meticulously as possible.
These monster anatomys form the aesthetics of the strange magic that are the hallmark of Da companions: the fantasy world that children dream of and the cult style of reality; so evidenced, so absurd; so scientific and rigorous, and so strange and chaotic; so humorous and ridiculous, so disgusting and bloody; so serious, and so nonsense.
This book was so popular that it fueled the mid-Showa monster craze (Weird Monkey ブーム) to the fire. In short, the companion began to rise to fame, and the reputation of "Dr. Monster" also came from it.
Even because of the fame of the Monster Book, some people were killed because of this wind comment - this unlucky egg was the Crown Prince Naruhito.
Naruhito (who was 6 years old at the time) was photographed that year going to a bookstore to buy a picture book, which caused a lot of talk, which led to the general public mentioning Prince Naruhito for decades and then thinking of him looking at the monster picture book.
Prince Naruhito, who was 6 years old at the time, was photographed buying monster pictures at a bookstore
Daisetsu manuscript: "Space Hero Oku-Tokuman", 13th Collection of Summons- Oil Beast Pester
However, to say that it is happy and sad? Or is there a gain or a loss? Such a popular "Monster Book" completely annoyed Eiji Ryotani.
Anzuya Hara-rai kou: "Monsters are children's dreams, don't destroy those dreams." (This is a thought of inconsifion and inability to be broken.) ）
Eiji Ryoji Ryotani is a "close-up cleaner" himself, for example, he has said more than once that he does not like leather jacket actors wearing leather jackets but showing their faces, because that will make children's dreams shattered.
Mothra
Similarly, people like DaBi analyze the physiological structure of all monsters thoroughly, that is, destroy the mystery of the monsters themselves, eat and drink Lasa let you draw it, and how can the audience look directly at these monsters that were originally set as "vicious" and "terrible" in the future?
In this way, After angering, Ranya made a decision: he would not allow Shoji Daisuke to step into the company again.
"Exploded star" atomic bomb family protest incident
It was bad enough to offend Yukiya, and in the same year, the companion also suffered an unfortunate thing, that is, the 12th episode of "Seven Ultraman" was banned.
In episode 12, there is a plot in which Sbel is contaminated with radioactive energy, so the people of the planet hope to invade the earth by replacing the radiation blood with the blood of the earthlings.
This setting did not seem to have been a problem at the time of the premiere, but later, the monster card attached to the magazine "Elementary School 2nd Year Student" wrote the introduction of Speier Starman as "Alias and Exploded Star" (Atomic Bomber).
The word "bombed" deeply touched the scales of the families of the victims of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and other places. As things got worse, the protesters took aim at the perpetrators.
Although the term "exploded star" did not appear on television, it was conceived by Masaji Obi (at this time, Daisuke was a freelance writer for no company to which he belonged), and used the word in his 1968 book カラー版 Strange 獣ウルトラ図鑑), as well as the official setting of The Valley at the time.
On October 21, 1970, the then president of the Company, Yoshiya, made a pact to the atomic bomb victims group to ban Episode 12 of Ultraman Severn forever.
The beams of the Big Companion and the Company seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
"I always say I don't want to live beyond 40"
It sounds like the life of the partner is unlucky enough to drink cold water and stuff your teeth, but it is not. He originally had money, and he graduated from a prestigious school (Keio), got his real estate appraiser qualification certificate at the age of 24, and then went to invest in stocks to make a lot of money, and at the same time as he engaged in literary creation, he began to build a building in Tokyo in the first half of 20 years old.
Large-time manuscript: "Katsuoku Special Man" Medium No.21 Collection and Tossing - Radio Monster Beacon
At the same time, Dai is also one of the founders of the Japanese science fiction industry, he is the director of the Japanese SF Writers Club, and his work ability is super strong, especially the fundraising is a good hand.
His SF Writers' Group supported Shinichi Hoshi, Sakyo Komatsu, Kazumasa Hirai, Mitsuse, Ryo Hanmura, and even Osamu Tezuka.
But the big partner is not so typical of the current charge.
He had never been married in his life, his private life was a mystery, and he was extremely private to the point of morbidity. He began to use a false name when he was a student, and others would be angry when they called him his real name, and even his good friends later did not know what his real name was.
It wasn't until after his death that everyone suddenly realized that he was a rich second generation, he didn't have the surname of Da Mate, and his father was 4 to Motohachiro!
Shoji Daisuke has always suffered from asthma. On January 27, 1973, daima died of a heart attack at a New Year's banquet at the Mystery Writers Association of Japan due to side effects of ephedrine used to treat asthma, the year he was just 36 years old.
My partner has always said that "I don't want to live past 40 years old", and often said that I would die with my friends before anyone else, and the result was an early flag, a slur.
Just 13 days after the sudden death of his companion, Eiji Ryū's son, Ichi Ryutani, died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at home, at the age of 41. Moreover, the two talents had just reconciled from their previous unpleasantness not long ago.
We often say that artists are lucky, that although they are not physically present, they can leave an incomparably rich spiritual wealth. Like Shoji Daisuke and his monster anatomy, even the works of fifty years ago are still absurd but alive and full of life, as if their authors had never left at all.
After all, on the epitaph of The Great Companion Masashi, there is also such a sentence:
I left for the star of ultra. (He traveled to Ultraman's star.) ）
| Author | Kappa
The first Asia-Pacific Science Fiction Convention is here!
May 19-20, China Science and Technology Museum (No. 5 Beichen East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing)
Liu Cixin, Han Song and other nearly 100 science fiction people from more than 10 countries, the top Chinese science fiction IP, as well as creators of cutting-edge science, aerospace, art, film and television, comics, games and other industries, invite you to travel to another planet this weekend.
- Long press QR code to participate now -