BLAST TO THE PAST: HISTORICAL MANGA
@ElliotPage Hibanacon 2018 Who the heck are you, anyway?
I’m Elliot! Hi!
I operate a search engine for legal digital manga availability: Mangasear.ch
I host a podcast about Manga: screentone.club
I have a tiny website: moesh.it
Twitter: @elliotpage Other Panels this weekend:
■ Blast to the Past: Historical Manga – 13:30 Friday – Events 3
■ Screentone.Club Live Podcast – 16:00 Friday – Events 4
■ Very Long Anime Worth Your Time – 14:00 Saturday – Events 4
■ Action Asteroid – 12:30 Sunday – Events 2 Panel Abstract
■ Manga, like many forms of media, can *transport* you ■ So, why not delve into the past? ■ Looking for manga that both: – Transport you to a different time/place – Tell a good story on their own ■ Note: No Nobunagas ■ Not a comprehensive panel! I have blind spots and limited money! ■ Mangasear.ch Useful (Plug Plug) resources ■ House of 1000 manga ■ Manga Aggregator Sites – Baka Updates Manga (Manga Updates) – Anime Planet ■ Twitter/ Discord/ Community MANGA PANEL = OSAMU TEZUKA This is a requirement. If I don’t mention Tezuka I will be targeted Osamu Tezuka
■ Godfather of Manga ■ Wrote a number of historical manga of wildly varying quality ■ Two noteworthy series in particular which are available: – (Message to) Adolf – Buddha ■ Other manga set in historical settings but do not “lean” on it: – Dororo – Phoenix – Ayako – Ludwig B Buddha
■ Historical characters and setting ■ Adds in fictional characters and slapstick to help lighten load ■ Won an Eisner, other awards ■ Philosophical as well as historical ■ Can be melodramatic / overwrought
■ Presented in 8 large-format volumes ■ Available in Paperback and Digitally
(Message to) Adolf
■ Follows the plight of three different people called Adolf ■ Set in 1936 ■ Story based on a conspiracy theory ■ Interesting character work
■ Available in Hardback (hard to find) ■ Also available in Digital format
Adolf image KAORU MORI She can draw the BEST looking jeans Kaoru Mori is a Treasure
■ Basically the reason for doing this panel ■ Amazing art ■ Absurd level of research – shows through in her work ■ Balances human touches with showing the time period ■ “Manga to lounge in” ■ Finally available digitally! A Bride’s Story
■ Set in Central Asia in the late 19th C. ■ Follows a series of women and their circumstances – husbands, families, etc. ■ Strikes a fine balance in mood and information ■ 9 Volumes released so far by Yen Press ■ Hardback Physical volumes ■ Recent digital release
Emma: A Victorian Romance
■ Mori’s previous work, based upon rampant Anglophilism ■ Meticulously researched, hired a historical consultant ■ Melodramatic romance story ■ At times naive and/or predictable ■ But very adorable ■ Rescued by Yen press, available in 3 hardbacks ■ Also available digitally later this month
Anything and Something
■ An anthology of Mori’s other short works ■ Available physically in hardback ■ Also available digitally ■ This is not strictly a historical manga ■ An excuse for the next slide
INTERMISSION
END OF INTERMISSION Showa
■ Historical journey and examination from 1926 until 1989 ■ Written by Kitaro Author Shigeru Mizuki ■ Balance of personal stories, Historical events, comedy, humour, humanism
■ Physical-only, 4 massive paperbacks ■ No seriously, they are huge ■ Drawn and Quarterly release (boo)
YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI Yoshihiro Tatsumi
■ This is kind of a cheating addition ■ Works were written contemporaneously but are an amazing window into that time ■ Passive detail ■ Father of “Gekiga”
■ Drawn and Quarterly physical-only releases ■ “A Drifting Life” is an amazing historical work, both for manga and for the time itself.
QUICK CUTS Oh god out of space Seven Shakespeares Vinland Saga
■ Viking life and war and strife and farming ■ Honking great big volumes Barefoot gen
■ If you want to feel like garbage ■ Turns out nukes are bad ■ Whoda thunk it I’ve run out ■ Altair of space so ■ Vagabond here are a ■ Blade of the Immortal ■ Lone Wolf and Cub, bunch of Samurai Assassin series I need ■ Golden Kamui to mention ■ Arte ■ Ooku: the Inner chambers so people (kinda) don’t get ■ Rose of Versailles (not available but upset at me notable) ■ Fate (lol) ■ Thank you for coming to Questions? this panel! ■ Suggestions very gratefully received – as mentioned at the top, I have my blind spots! ■ If you want more manga, check out my podcast! Screentone.club ■ Slides will be on my website along with (hopefully) a recording! Moesh.it Other Panels this weekend:
■ Blast to the Past: Historical Manga – 13:30 Friday – Events 3
■ Screentone.Club Live Podcast – 16:00 Friday – Events 4
■ Very Long Anime Worth Your Time – 14:00 Saturday – Events 4
■ Action Asteroid – 12:30 Sunday – Events 2 THANKS FOR COMING!
Mangasear.ch Screentone.club Moesh.it @elliotpage