Frasi di Osamu Tezuka

“I bambini affrontano problemi come la violenza, l'abuso, il suicidio ecc. che la medicina non può guarire. Si potrà mai aiutare psicologicamente questi bambini ed essergli di sostegno…? Anche quando si trovano in difficoltà, per principio non parlano con gli adulti, né si confidano sulle loro vere intenzioni. Tuttavia si aspettano dei messaggi seri dagli adulti. Io continuerò a mandargli messaggi attraverso i manga. I bambini evitano ciò che li forza o ciò che vuole imporre loro qualcosa. È per questo che continuerò a cercare quelle cose che […] ispirano il loro cuore.”

Origine: Dall'intervento alla XV conferenza nazionale sulla medicina scolastica e la sicurezza nelle scuole, 1987; citato in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: Una biografia manga, vol. 2, traduzione di Marta Fogato, Coconino press, Bologna, 2001, p. 79. ISBN 8888063072

“Kimba, il leone bianco”

“Ho concepito questa storia [MW] con l'intento di presentare ai lettori un dramma picaresco che stravolgendo le tradizionali atmosfere dei miei racconti li lasciasse stupefatti.
Avrei voluto che tutti i mali della società – conformismo, ozio, indolenza, tradimento, violenza, concupiscenza, stupro – e soprattutto i mali della politica vi fossero rappresentati nella forma di una depravazione assoluta.
Ora provo un grande rammarico. Il mio stile inadeguato mi costringe a concludere l'opera senza esserci riuscito…”

1950

“I nuovi lettori hanno mentalità, mode, sentimenti completamente diversi da quelli dei lettori precedenti. Dovrei forse disegnare fumetti seguendo i miei primi lettori nella loro crescita? O dovrei smettere di fare il fumettista?… Più o meno ogni tre anni un fumettista per bambini si trova alle strette. Anch'io, ogni tre anni, vivo una crisi. Quindi mi decido e mi rimetto all'opera per i miei nuovi lettori come se fossero i primi. …È per questo che ho la certezza che i bei lavori che disegnerò riusciranno a rendere felici i lettori di tutti i tempi.”

Origine: Dalla Postfazione dell'aprile 1978 a MW, vol. 3, traduzione di Francesco Nicodemo, Hazard Edizioni, Milano, 2005, p. 193. ISBN 887502037X

“Sento che c'è della sensualità… dell'erotismo primario nelle cose che si muovono, come gli animali e gli insetti. Riuscire a infondere il movimento a delle immagini fisse… mi dà la gioia del creatore che soffia la vita in cose che vita non hanno. Anche il movimento deve essere sufficientemente circolare e dolce… in modo da esprimere tutto il suo erotismo. Nel creare cartoni animati ho sempre in mente un ideale, ma… a metà dell'opera finisco per dubitare della giustezza di quanto sto facendo. Quindi ripongo sempre tutte le mie aspettative nell'opera successiva. […] Spesso dico per scherzo che i fumetti sono la mia vera moglie e che i cartoni animati sono la mia amante. Il fatto che io sia completamente dedito all'animazione, la mia amante… è perché mi permette di esprimere in modo sublime… l'interessante metamorfosi di un corpo che cambia. Per me, il più grande divertimento, non c'è dubbio, sta proprio nel disegnare e dare movimento a dei processi di cambiamento. Ricerco sempre nei miei cartoni questa metamorfosi.”

Origine: Da Il mio diario manga, 1966; citato in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: Una biografia manga, vol. 3, traduzione di Marta Fogato, Coconino press, Bologna, 2001, p. 26. ISBN 8888063102

“Sono convinto che i fumetti non debbano solo far ridere. Per questo nelle mie storie trovate lacrime, rabbia, odio, dolore e finali non sempre lieti.”

Origine: Da Intervista all'autore, in Osamu Tezuka, Jumping; citato in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: Una biografia manga, vol. 4, traduzione di Marta Fogato, Coconino press, Bologna, 2001, p. 178. ISBN 8888063188

“Tanto tempo fa, molti dei piccoli inferni che si svolgevano nei campi proprio vicino a casa mia mostravano la gioia del vivere, instancabilmente e nonostante tutto.”

Origine: Citato in Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka: il dio del manga, traduzione di Fabio Deotto, Edizioni BD, 2010, quarta di copertina.

“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.”

Origine: Da Salviamo il pianeta di vetro; citato in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: Una biografia manga, vol. 1, traduzione di Marta Fogato, Coconino press, Bologna, 2000, p. 106. ISBN 888806303X

Osamu Tezuka: Frasi in inglese

“My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death…”

Quoted in Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka: God of manga , translated by Fabio Deotto, Edizioni BD, 2010, back cover.

“What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.”

“Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.”

Origine: Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters

“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.””

“Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures”

That was their merit as propaganda against the Japanese. <br class="br"> 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.

“Those American comics themselves were heavily influenced by Keaton’s comedies, Mack Sennett, those sorts of films from the golden age of comedy. The gagmen that appeared there, for example Roscoe Arbuckle or Ben Turpin, there were lots of comics that used their style, their faces just as is. Especially Chaplin with his bowed legs and over-sized shoes. Those sorts of features were used directly in comics. In that era, all American cartoonists imitated the stars of comedy. That is what I worked so hard at copying, and so that’s why my comics are bowlegged and big-shoed. At the level of content too I was deeply influenced by the strong social caricatures of Chaplin’s comedies, the tears mixed with the laughter. The biggest influence of all was the rhythm.”

As quoted in Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1441185755 p. 5

“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.”

Origine: http://www.tcj.com/tezuka-osamu-and-american-comics/ Tezuka Osamu and American Comics

“I first followed the comics of Tagawa Suihō and Yokoyama Ryūichi. But suddenly, once I became devoted to Disney, I set out to copy and master that stuffed-animal style, eventually ending up with how I now draw.”

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.”

Origine: http://www.tcj.com/tezuka-osamu-and-american-comics/ Tezuka Osamu and American Comics

“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.”

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

“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.”

As quoted in Japan-zone http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/tezuka_osamu.shtml

“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 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

“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.”

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

“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 …”

Since I cartoonist ; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 3, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 73.

“Tezuka could never completely abandon medicine. Although he never actively practiced, he became a licensed doctor later in life, and one of his most famous manga series stars the rogue genius doctor, Black Jack. But life as both a doctor and an in-demand (though underpaid) young artist was difficult. Tezuka struggled to meet deadlines and commitments. His family feared for his health and begged him to focus on medicine, but he had become too successful, and too passionate, to stop.”

From the Afterword to April 1978 MW , vol. 3, translation by Francesco Nicodemus, Hazard Editions, Milan, 2005, p. 193. ISBN 887502037X

“Now I feel a great regret. My style inadequate forces me to complete the work without being able ...”

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Origine: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/06/books/book-reviews/life-japans-god-manga/#.XSjK_VVKi70 "The life of Osamu Tezuka, Japan’s ‘god of manga’"

“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.”

From the Afterword to April 1978 MW , vol. 3, translation by Francesco Nicodemus, Hazard Editions, Milan, 2005, p. 193. ISBN 887502037X