>Yoshiharu Tsuge, the manga artist known for his works such as "Nejishiki" and "Muno no Hito," which feature an absurd worldview and deal with themes of travel and poverty, passed away on the 3rd of this month due to aspiration pneumonia. He was 88 years old.https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015085561000
>>287037710RIP.
literally who
R.I.P.
>>287037781Fag
>>287037710>Gekiga mangakaShouldn't it be Gekigaka?
>>287038379i thought it was bakageki
>>287037710rip
>>287037710RIPSomeone compile all the social media tributes from other mangaka, this death is as big to them as Umezu or Shigeru Mizuki
>>287037710RIP
>>287037710Just heard the sad news. Tsuge is a legend. Nejishiki is among the greatest pieces of media ever created.
>>287039565I bet there's only like 5 people who read Nejishiki on /a/
>>287037710Rest in peace to one of the greats.I recommend playing this game after going through his manga. Surreal experience, and a great tribute to his work.
>>287037710GG
>>287037781The guy whose work Anno was ripping off
>>287041502Oh great, here we go again.
I blame memekurage.
>>287037710Rest in power.
>>287037710>due to aspiration pneumoniaGoddamn. Imagine living such a great life and spending your last moments suffocating or coughing in pain because of an infection. If I could wish one thing, I'd wish for the ability to die peacefully while I'm asleep.
>>287043812>Rest in powerback to bluesky pls
Boo hoo WW2.
>>287037710RIP good man.
>>287037710RIPI love some of his more experimental works like "The Outside Inflation". Really great example of a person's fear of the world and anxiety about it. Where even if you fight all your instincts to go out into the world, you can still suffocate in the open air just for trying.His more realistic dramas are also pretty good. Had a good way of handling very normal people without either exaggeration or them being too boring. He didn't do much for the last few decades, did he? Guess he said all he wanted to back in the day.
F RIPI really should get around to reading some of these gekiga some time
Damn, a really important guy this time. RIP
>>287037742>Birthday 1938This is surreal that such a people still live now
whats the difference between gekiga and seinen?I always thought gekiga was the name given to a movement of more adult and experimental manga that started to appear in the 70's I think but that the individual works themselves would still be categorized by the readers as seinenor are there elements that separate them?
>>287047865Gekiga is a specific style that's more realistic than the cartoony manga. A popular subtype is Jidaigekiga with samurai stories and the like.Seinen is a waste bucket term for content that doesn't fit a more specific category. There's no specific style or content associated with seinen, everything can be published in those mags.
>>287047865Seinen, along with the other demographic labels, should really be thought of as terms to describe magazines. Manga just inherit the label of the magazine in which they are published. That's why Berserk and K-On! are both seinen manga.The original gekiga manga probably should not be thought of as seinen manga since the magazines they were published in were experimental and didn't necessarily have demographic labels attached to them. But in a modern context, those experimental magazines look the more like seinen magazines than the other three major demographics, and much of the modern manga which resembles gekiga appears in seinen magazines.
>>287045108Rest in power.
>>287047865Back in the day, the latter didn't exist. There weren't many mainstream magazines running comic strips aimed at adults in the way there are today. But there was a large rental comic market where you could publish stuff with smaller audiences and make up your costs through rental volume. But these collapsed in the 50s. So this led to a few pioneers to hook up together and start trying to change what types of comics were allowed to be published. And gekiga was the name that one notable early artist called Yoshihiro Tatsumi (not to be confused with the OP, he died a while ago) picked for his new type of comic, to counter the perceived frivolity around 'manga'. Others adopted it sometimes. To them it meant a lot of things, including a certain type of darker or otherwise weirdly stylized comic aimed at adults, often published in magazines like Garo. These went from just shitposts, to attempts to accurately document experiencing mental illness, or Japan's urban underclass, to telling dramatic stories of sex and violence you couldn't in mainstream magazines. Even Tezuka got in the action, running his own 'gekiga magazine'. Over time Gekiga became more and more associated with a certain type of heavily inked, intentionally film-styled in its paneling and episodic in its story storytelling work built around protagonists engaging in violent and often destructive lifestyles set in historical time periods. This following Lone Wolf and Cub or Golgo 13 or Kamui, the three biggest hits of the new genre.As you moved into the later 70s and 80s, Gekiga as a term became pretty restricting and writers didn't really like using it for their work anymore. This is around the time that the term 'seinen manga' as a demographic for mainstream magazines to claim to target, became more popular and allowed for artists who didn't fit into the gekiga style to find a good place for their works. Otomo was the hero of this era.
>>287038379>>287038393gekibaka
>>287037710There is a cool episode of VladLove (Oshii's last real project) that is basically a half hour long reference to everything this guy worked on. It is really a charming type of love letter.
>>287043751damn i remember seeing this picture in a book decades ago and the image always haunted me. crazy stumbling onto it here.
It's a bittersweet feeling that I am only just learning about this artist and manga movement and from /a/ of all places.RIP
>>287055057this ep is how i found out about himRIP
>>287037710You will now go and watch Vlad love episode 9.Rip in kino.
>>287037710Not a big loss for manga.
>>287055057Oh nice, I dropped it before that episode.
>>287050467There are explicit gekiga magazines like Comic Ran.Manga Time Kirara is classified as a 4koma magazine.
RIP
>>287037710God it's been a rough month. RIP.
>>287050679Nice write-up
>>287037710RIP Yoshiharu
As if I needed further proof that /a/ is full pleb.RIP to one of the greats.
RIPanother one of the greats gone
>>287043994Dying to aspiratory pneumonia at such age usually means he was suffering dementia and his brain deteriorated so much he lost his swallowing and gagging reflexes. I assure you that dying to pneumonia was barely a speck of suffering he received due to dementia.
>>287055441Time has no mercy. At least you did find out.
Damn, i really liked Munou no Hito
>>287067614kek...
>>287037710R.I.P.
One more bump for the road.
>>287037710R.I.P. I read all the manga I could find from him some years ago.
>>287067614Who was this made for?
F
>>287075217Probably himself. He stopped making manga after it. I prefer his short stories.
>>287037710>almost 90This guy definitely lived a full life. Not even bothered unlike the rest.
>>287078031It's still the end of a legendary mangaka.
>>287037710I didn't know her, but RIP.
>>287075217Jap hippies who were aging out of the lifestyle ungracefully but who still struggled hard to find a path in life.
RIP.
>>287055057>>287055619Oh wow, it looks like they only had $500 to make an episode and $450 went straight into the voice acting.
>>287086414You work with what you have.
>>287086414That just about describes the show.
RIP to the legend he's the best mangaka everone of the most influential tooReikaku from Inio Asano is a modern retelling of his "The man without talent"He actually started drawing manga because he was poor (he even sold blood as a kid)He was a misanthrope that lost all hope on lifeBut his works touched lots of people and had the power to prove that manga aren't just funny pictures but can be dramatic too (that's what the "geki" in gekigs means)I wish the shirt featuring nejishiki was available to buy now that he's dead. I've seen Suehiro Maruo wear it once in an interview
>>287089178>https://www.houyhnhnm.jp/en/news/790516/>https://powerhouse-tokyo.myshopify.com/Is this what you're talking about?You should be able to get something fairly close if you get it screenprinted at a good company in your area. I doubt they'd ask too many questions about copyright. https://files.catbox.moe/u7ro75.pngThere are some very high res scans of the pages online.
>>287089414This is the interview where I have seen ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59-ayb8D9UI have found it once on Mandarake but it was unavailableSame with this amazon link:https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Nejishiki-Screw-Seirindo-Yoshiharu-T-shirt/dp/B0CPT3284GOr for over 500 USD on ebayThe neat detail is the screw on the arm, that's the only reason I haven't screenprinted it yetI was not aware of the ones you posted and some of them looks really nice, thanks for the discoveryI think I could wear some of them around the gym
>>287037710F
>>287089178>>287089414>>287089586Interestng.
>>287037710No a single one of his Manga translated
>>287096461Nigga there are English hardcovers of his manga.
