Koji Nakamura interview
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togawa jun 1983
Humans are a foolish animal that injures nature, friends and themselves.
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penthouse_october 1984
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Creating manga is kind of like you’re a child who’s stolen some money, and when asked about it you lie and say you found it on the ground, but then the grown-ups keep asking more and more questions, and you have to keep making up more and more lies and make it more real. Like, I’ve already gone and said that I’d make this series, so now I have to follow through on that original lie to the end and make it look like something real. People who are good at making manga are really good liars, I think.
Taiyo Matsumoto, in a 1997 interview.
Oh putain! Le vrai, l'original, Matsumoto!
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Azuma: The advantage to making manga lies in the fact that Yotsuba is Yotsuba, I believe. That’s another thing I wanted to do in Yotsuba&!: to get rid of the constrictions of doing a story. To just let Yotsuba naturally do as she likes as much as possible, without explanation. The parts that would get cut out of a story manga because nothing happens, Yotsuba&! serves up as the main dish.
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戸川純、小川美潮_music magazine_july 1984
Shichiro Kobayashi, Japanese animation art director
Rencontre internationale avec les auteurs japonais Suehiro Maruo et Atsushi Kaneko, qui s'est tenue le 31 janvier 2014 dans le cadre du 41e festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême.
I’ve downloaded it and if it gets deleted I’ll re-upload it again. Recently a lot of videos got deleted like the one time Maruo was in a Kitano show or the one were Hino and Umezu drew a manga page. Probably going to buy a new hard drive for all these back-ups.
The Downtown comedy duo — comprising Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada — are sitting on a train speeding towards Narita Airport outside Tokyo. It's not like they're going anywhere, or ...
The paperback of Banana Yoshimoto's The Lake is in bookstores today. The novel has been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and praised by The New York Times (which noted that the novel "attests to the power of…
Uploaded most of the interview here:
https://mega.co.nz/#!vBI2mR4T!KFFh6DJt0kR_r8RcEiQZtmLbtJAo8Iz0Kuo0r3O8jTk