Tokiwa was the apartment complex where a group of stellar artists lived in 1953. Hiro Terada, Motoo Abiko and Hiroshi Fujimoto, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka shared the trials and tribulations of being struggling young artists and writers with no money and no luck with editors or girls, with a spirit of insane youthful enthusiasm that enabled them to survive the lean…
ISHINOMORI Shoutarou
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A comedy about the mischievous adventures of a young boy. Each episode contains 2 stories.
A brilliant collection of beautifully animated episodes based on selected masterpieces of Japanese modern literature.
The aim of this series is to appeal to the viewer at large and to give him or her some idea of the variety and individuality which Japanese literature has developed over the last hundred years.
The authors range from Higuchi Ichiyou (Takekurabe), Mori Ougai (…
The story depicts Shimamura Joe and the other cyborgs' struggle with the Bresudo, a group of people who possess superhuman powers and intellect, and have manipulated human history since ancient times. Their goals are unknown, and they cast a dark shadow over the world.
Though few people believe in the Bresudo's existence, one journalist named Lucy Davenport heads to Texas to…
During a time when the cyborgs are no longer in duty and are living normal lives, a mysterious space ship lands on earth. The only survivor aboard the ship warns of an evil conqueror called Zoa that desires domination of the entire universe. With Earth in the cross-hairs, the cyborgs spring back into action...
In this alternate future, the Cold War has continued on for 140 years. The Earth is divided into two diametrically opposed factions — the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc. The two sides maintain a façade of peace, but continue their war with the threat of total nuclear annihilation.
One of the Western Bloc's top agents, Mylene Hoffman — an enhanced female cyborg, codename…
The electronics maker Panasonic sponsored a stereoscopic 3D animation project of Ishinomori Shoutarou's classic science-fiction manga Cyborg 009 with director Oshii Mamoru and the studio Production I.G. The high-definition anime short, which is four minutes and 45 seconds long, was unveiled at the Panasonic booth at the CEATEC Japan 2010 trade show. The show run at the…
Ishinomori is riding on a train to Sendai when he sees a boy near him with a blue kaleidoscope. Reminded of how he used to like them, he asks the boy for it. With his glimpses into it, he begins to have a proper understanding of what made him the mangaka he is...
A one-shot compilation focusing on Ishinomori's life and his relationship with manga, including his relationship…