„En la naturaleza, personas, animales o serpientes, estamos todos en el mismo barco“
— Osamu Tezuka, Buda
Buddha, Vol. 1: Kapilavastu
Frases de Osamu Tezuka
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Osamu Tezuka
Fecha de nacimiento: 3. Noviembre 1928
Fecha de muerte: 9. Febrero 1989
Osamu Tezuka fue un mangaka y animador japonés, conocido popularmente en su país como «el dios del manga» , debido a que gracias a su obra expandió y difundió masivamente la lectura y el consumo del manga como medio de entretenimiento popular, dando como consecuencia que las mangas, llegaran a tener una influencia profunda en la sociedad japonesa de la post guerra. Su nueva manera de desarrollar y crear manga, basada en las técnicas de la cinematografía de la época y de genios de la animación como Walt Disney,[1] replanteó la tradicional realización de las historietas que apenas ocupaban unas viñetas rígidas y de pocos cuadros con cortas historias autoconclusivas para ser reemplazadas por los llamados story manga, o mangas de larga duración con una trama mucho más elaborada y compleja.
Así esta nueva técnica permitió que adaptará genialmente las grandes obras maestras de la literatura mundial a la historieta gráfica como hizo con Crimen y castigo, o se inspirara en ellas para crear sus propias aventuras como su primer gran éxito La nueva isla del tesoro .
Tal fue el impacto de sus creaciones y de sus obras que hasta el día de hoy la base de su estilo perdura en los nuevos autores japoneses y los personajes que él dio a luz con su pluma siguen viviendo en la cultura popular de Japón, donde se puede encontrar en las librerías la gran mayoría de sus obras. Además, sus mangas han sido traducidas a decenas de lenguas, entre ellas el español.[2] La ternura y el profundo y sincero humanismo que imprimió a sus personajes han dejado una huella indeleble, haciendo de él un autor universal capaz de traspasar culturas. Incluso los ojos desproporcionadamente grandes que son tan característicos de la animación y los mangas constituyen un legado de Tezuka.
Obras
Frases Osamu Tezuka
„I feel there is sensuality … eroticism in the primary things that move, like animals and insects. Being able to inspire the movement to still images … gives me the joy of the creator that breathes life into things that do not have life. The movement must be sufficiently round and sweet … so express its eroticism. In creating cartoons I always think of an ideal, but … half the finish to doubt the rightness of what I'm doing. So I put all my expectations always work next. * * […] I often say jokingly that comics are my true wife and that the cartoons are my lover. The fact that I am fully dedicated to animation, my lover … is because it allows me to express in a sublime … the interesting metamorphosis of a changing body. For me, the greatest fun, no doubt, lies in the draw and give movement to change processes. Always look in my cartons this metamorphosis.“
From Interview to the author , in Osamu Tezuka, Jumping ; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 4, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 178. ISBN 8888063188
„The new readers have mentality, fashions, feelings completely different from those of previous readers. Should I draw comics following my first readers in their growth? Or should I stop doing the cartoonist? … More or less every three years a cartoonist for children is cornered. I, too, every three years, living a crisis. So I decide and I get back to work for my new readers as if they were the first. … This is why I am certain that the good work that will draw able to make happy readers of all time.“
From My Diary manga , 1966; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 3, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 26. ISBN 8888063102
„I conceived this story [ MW ] with the intention of presenting readers a picaresque drama that distort the traditional atmosphere of my stories leave them stunned.
I wish that all the ills of society - conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape - and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity.
Now I feel a great regret. My style inadequate forces me to complete the work without being able …“
— Osamu Tezuka, MW
From the Afterword to April 1978 MW , vol. 3, translation by Francesco Nicodemus, Hazard Editions, Milan, 2005, p. 193. ISBN 887502037X
„Long ago, many of the small hells that took place in the camps right next to my house showed the joy of living, and tirelessly despite everything“
From Save the Planet of glass ; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 1, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2000, p. 106. ISBN 888806303X
„The science fiction and manga readers had the same… Most fiction writers then had had some experience in the comic and some of it had even been absorbed completely… I can not understand why those who love science fiction also loves the manga and vice versa. There are two kinds characterized by a biting satire and at worst are called "extravagant"…. Both are aimed toward the future, and therefore contain romantic adventures for young people.“
Since I cartoonist ; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 3, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 73.
„The children face problems such as violence, abuse, suicide etc. that medicine can not heal. It will never help these children psychologically and be his support …? Even when they are in difficulty, in principle they do not speak with adults, or confide about their true intentions. However, expect some serious messages from adults. I will continue to send messages through manga. Children avoid them what force or what they want to impose anything. That is why I will continue to look for those things that […] inspire their hearts.“
From the intervention to the fifteenth national conference on school health and safety in schools , 1987; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 2, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 79. ISBN 8888063072
„Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures“
As quoted in Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1441185755 p. 5
„What I try to appeal through my works is simple. The opinion is just a simple message that follows: "Love all the creatures! Love everything that has life"! I have been trying to express this message in every one of my works. Though it has taken the different forms like "the presentation of nature," "the blessing of life," "the suspicion of too much science-oriented civilisation," anti-war and so on.“
As quoted in Japan-zone http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/tezuka_osamu.shtml
„Around 1945, daily life might have been hard, but the reputation of Disney was at its highest. The voices of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck had stabilized, Snow White and Bambi were huge hits and had received a number of international prizes. It really was like the brightness of a rising sun. And then Japanese children after the war had no choice but to face the flood of Disney comics that accompanied the brainwashing of “American democracy.”“
That was their merit as propaganda against the Japanese.
Tezuka Osamu and American Comics http://www.tcj.com/tezuka-osamu-and-american-comics/, (1973), as quoted by Ryan Holmberg, The Comics Journal, Jul 16, 2012.
„I am convinced that comics should not only make people laugh. For this in my stories found tears, anger, hatred, pain and end not always happy.“
Quoted in Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka: God of manga , translated by Fabio Deotto, Edizioni BD, 2010, back cover.
