Character designs of Nagai in Manga and Anime

 

            Nagai had been a great author of fantasy, erotica, science fiction and horror. The author is known for creation of Mazinger Z, Devilman and Cutie Honey. He is still the pioneer of ecchi genre. He has been given credits for coming up Super Robot genre. Nagai has also been credited for designing the very first mecha robots (Patten, Macek & Overdrive Inc., 2004).  . The period when Shueisha had been preparing to the first manga publication, entritled, “Shonen Jump” with an aim of competing with other rival companies, Nagai had been invited to publish the new magazine as the first artist. The design succeeded well and had enabled Shonem Jump sell over million copies of the magazine. Nagai had been in the position to introduce eroticism in Manga which had enabled him to be opener of the door towards the new period in Manga. He created, Debiruman or Devilman in anime series explaining a demonic hero who had been having a fight with demons’ hordes. This appeared less violent than those of Manga.

            Nagai had created Harenchi Gakuen which made him face much opposition and which led to emergence of protests. The protests had been directed to Manga as well as the television series. The distribution of the magazines had been restricted in various parts of Japan and this led to Nagai changing the theme in the magazine (Patten, Macek & Overdrive Inc., 2004).  The theme became serious and mature. During this period of protests, Nagai had been able to design Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko and the main theme had been war between adults and youths. Later, he designed Abashiri Ikka and the theme had been grounded on the results of protests. This magazine succeeded as well as Harenchi Gakuen

 

 

 

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Patten, F., Macek, C., & Overdrive Inc. (2004). Watching Anime, Reading Manga. Place of publication not identified: Stone Bridge Press.

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