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Shigeru Mizuki (1922–2015)

Auteur van Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

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Shigeru Mizuki was born as Shigeru Mura in Japan in 1922. He fought in Papua New Guinea during World War II and lost his left arm during a battle. He returned to Japan and initially worked as an illustrator for picture-story shows. He later become one of Japan's leading manga artists and was known toon meer for his Gegege no Kitaro series and autobiographical works depicting the frontline in Southeast Asia during World War II. He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1991 for his contribution to academics and arts and was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit by the government in 2010. He died of heart failure on November 30, 2015 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Shigeru Mizuki, 2011 (by 大臣官房人事課 (平成22年度 文化功労者:文部科学省), CC BY 4.0)

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Werken van Shigeru Mizuki

Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (2009) 268 exemplaren
NonNonBa (1977) 206 exemplaren
Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler (1971) 99 exemplaren
Kitaro (2013) 92 exemplaren
The Birth of Kitaro (2016) 74 exemplaren
Tono Monogatari (2010) 62 exemplaren
Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon (2016) 36 exemplaren
The Great Tanuki War (2017) 31 exemplaren
Kitaro the Vampire Slayer (2018) 23 exemplaren
Kitaro's Strange Adventures (2017) 22 exemplaren
Kitaro's Yokai Battles (2019) 18 exemplaren
The Trial of Kitaro (2020) 18 exemplaren
GeGeGe-no-Kitaro, Volume 1 (2002) 17 exemplaren
Dictionnaire des Yôkai (2015) 11 exemplaren
Vie de Mizuki (la) Vol.1 (2012) 11 exemplaren
Enciclopedia Yokai Vol. I (2017) 9 exemplaren
Kitaro 3 (1996) 8 exemplaren
Kitaro 2 (1996) 8 exemplaren
Tante NonNon (2019) 8 exemplaren
Hitler (2009) 8 exemplaren
Yokai (2017) 7 exemplaren
MONONOKE (2021) 5 exemplaren
Mon copain le kappa (1966) 5 exemplaren
Kitaro le repoussant, Tome 4 : (2008) 5 exemplaren
Auf in den Heldentod! (2019) 5 exemplaren
Enciclopedia Yokai 2 (2018) 4 exemplaren
A l'intérieur des yokaï (2018) 4 exemplaren
Dentro de los Yokais (2019) 4 exemplaren
Kitaro le repoussant, t. 07 (2009) 3 exemplaren
水木しげるの妖怪事典 (1981) 3 exemplaren
Kitaro 3: Schloss Yokai (2021) 3 exemplaren
Kitaro 2: Der Krieg der Yokai (2021) 3 exemplaren
妖怪の森 (絵巻えほん) (1995) 3 exemplaren
Kitaro 5 : Das Haarmonster (2022) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro 13 : Der Phantomzug (2023) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro 6: Die Hüter des Hutes (2022) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro 12 : Reiskuchenmord (2023) 2 exemplaren
愛蔵版 妖怪画談 (2002) 2 exemplaren
Yōkai Daizukai (2004) 2 exemplaren
水木しげる 妖怪百物語 (2005) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro 7 : Das Kreisel-Yokai (2022) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro 8 : Der Dürregott (2022) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro 4: Der Vampir Elite (2022) 2 exemplaren
Autobiografía: Libro 5 (2013) 2 exemplaren
Kitaro le repoussant t.11 (2011) 2 exemplaren
YOKAIDO (BLAISE) (2018) 2 exemplaren
A Picture Book of Yukai (2018) 2 exemplaren
Shigeru Mizuki: Kriegsjahre (2020) 2 exemplaren
Showa (Vol. 1) (2021) 1 exemplaar
日本妖怪大事典 (2005) 1 exemplaar
Tetsuroku (1994) 1 exemplaar
3, calle de los Misterios (2011) 1 exemplaar
Nihon Yōkai Taika (2007) 1 exemplaar
悪魔くん 1 exemplaar
悪魔くん千年王国 (1988) 1 exemplaar
総員玉砕せよ! 1 exemplaar
Kitaro, 5 (Comic) 1 exemplaar
NEW-SHOWA 1939-1944 1 exemplaar
Kitaro 11: Der Yokai-Prozess (2023) 1 exemplaar
Kitaro 11 : Der Yokai-Prozess (2023) 1 exemplaar
悪魔くん (ちくま文庫) (1991) 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Mizuki, Shigeru
Officiële naam
Mura, Shigeru (birth)
武良 茂
Geboortedatum
1922-03-08
Overlijdensdatum
2015-11-30
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Japan
Geboorteplaats
Sakaiminato, Osaka, Japan
Plaats van overlijden
Tokyo, Japan
Oorzaak van overlijden
multiple organ failure
Beroepen
Cartoonist
Mangaka
Organisaties
Japanese Army (WWII)

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I think I enjoyed this less for the story and more for the historical value. I enjoy classic manga quite a bit and while I've heard of Shigeru Mizuki before, I had never read him as it's less of my kind of story.

Still I can see the appeal - the style is very different from today's manga and while there is some harsh parts, overall this should catch elementary school kids quite easily.
 
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lexilewords | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 28, 2023 |
Back in 2015, I visited the rural Japanese town of Tono in Iwate prefecture, known as the “City of Folklore,” just a few years after the hundredth anniversary of the publication of the influential Japanese folklorist Kunio Yanagita’s 1910 masterwork Tono Monogatari, a slim, fascinating collection of 119 short vignettes told to him by local citizen Sasaki Kizen. At the same time, I noted that the acclaimed manga artist Shigeru Mizuki had published a comic adaption of the work to celebrate this anniversary, so when I noticed that it had been recently been translated into English, I was eager to read it. Mizuki takes Yanagita’s spare records of the valley's local stories, and crafts a thoughtful comic as the elderly manga artist depicts himself tramping across the Tono valley in the footsteps of Yanagita and Sasaki, making me feel like I was also visiting again.

As the creator of the seminal manga GeGeGe no Kitaro, Mizuki himself also had a significant role in popularizing the yokai and mystery of Japanese folklore both in Japan and across the world, making him an ideal conduit to explore this standard in Japanese folklore study. Along with background information provided by translator and folklorist Zack Davisson on the Shinto meanings behind these lore, the tales lend themselves to Mizuki’s comical yet grounded style. Both eerie and oddly prosaic, the tales reflect the everyday life and concerns of the people of this remote place, both their fears and their desires. Including legends of the kappa, the tengu, snow women, and other supernatural entities, other tales discuss local landmarks and eccentric townspeople while aspects of daily life like farming and hunting continue throughout. Mizuki’s sympathetic yet questioning musings are an ideal medium for revisiting Yanagita’s work and the integral place it has in Japanese folklore study.
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Spoonbridge | 1 andere bespreking | Sep 21, 2023 |
Good graphic overview of Hitler.
 
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kslade | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 31, 2023 |
Shigeru Mizuki is one of the great manga authors, but is rarely translated into English. This is one of his classic stories, based on his personal wartime experience.

A platoon of Japanese soldiers is assigned to defend a beachhead near Rabaul, in what is now Papua New Guinea. They are subjected to a terrifying air assault followed by a landing of marines supported by tanks. Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, their rations dwindle to nothing, and their pitifully low weaponry is useless against the Americans.

Against all advice, the platoon commander decides that the platoon must perform a death-or-glory suicide charge to pay homage to the honour of their ancestors. Since the order is to suicide, anybody who survives and gets back to base is considered a traitorous insubordinate and subjected to the most severe discipline.

The hardship and brutality that the soldiers experience at the hands of their own officers is reminiscent of the wanton waste of life that heedless British commanders wreaked during the trench warfare campaigns of World War 1. It is a reminder that extreme suffering and gross disregard for human life is seen on all sides of a war.
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gjky | 4 andere besprekingen | Apr 9, 2023 |

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180
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2,077
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