Devil Boy - Akuma-kun

...In the 1960s, against the backdrop of the obvious recovery of the Japanese economy, gekiga, which had a dark anger that contrasted with the cheerful mood that ran through society's surface, first appeared in rental bookstores and later in weekly boys' magazines. Shirato Sanpei's Ninja Bugeicho (17 volumes, 1959-62), which centers on peasant uprisings, and Mizuki Shigeru's Devil Boy (2 volumes, 1964), which depicts the evil forces that dominate the modern world, are representative works of gekiga that were sent to rental bookstore readers who had grown up on picture-story shows. In terms of drawing technique, as Tatsumi Yoshihiro, who coined the term, said in his book Gekiga Daigaku (1968), the distinctive feature of gekiga is the use of many frames to depict one action, which is similar to high-speed film. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Devilman" is listed below.

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…60年代にはだれの眼にも明らかになった日本経済の復興を背景として，社会の表層をながれる明るい気分とうらはらな黒い怒りを主調とする劇画が，はじめは貸本屋に，後には少年週刊雑誌にあらわれた。百姓一揆を主軸にすえた白土三平《忍者武芸帳》全17巻(1959‐62)，現代を支配する悪の力をえがいた水木しげる《悪魔くん》全2巻(1964)は，紙芝居のなかで育った貸本屋読者層におくられた劇画の代表作である。描法からいえば，命名者辰巳ヨシヒロが自著《劇画大学》(1968)でのべたように，劇画の特色は一つの行動をえがくのにコマ数を多くすることであり，映画の高速度撮影に似ている。…

※「《悪魔くん》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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