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Go Nagai in his studio, Tokyo, 1987; photo by Sally LarsenKiyoshi Nagai ( 永井潔, Nagai Kiyoshi, born September 6, 1945), better known by the pen name Go Nagai ( 永井 豪, Nagai Gō), is a Japanese and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating,. He also pioneered the genre with. He is credited with creating the genre and for designing the first robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with Mazinger Z.
In 2005, he became a Character Design professor at the. He has been a member of the 's nominating committee since 2009. Contents.Life Early life Go Nagai was born on September 6, 1945 —in the city of. He is the son of Yoshio and Fujiko Nagai (永井芳雄・冨士子), and the fourth of five brothers. His family had just returned from. While he was still in his early childhood, he along with his mother and his four brothers moved to after the death of his father.
As a child, he was influenced by the work of (specifically, a Japanese edition of the ) and (Nagai's brother gave him a copy of ).He graduated from the Metropolitan of Tokyo. While passing his in a prep school in order to earn placement at, he suffered a severe case of for three weeks. Aware of his own mortality, he wanted to leave some evidence that he had lived, by doing something that he liked as a child: working on manga. He was determined to create one work of manga in what he thought were his last months. As Nagai prepared for the task, he went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with, and soon healed. But this was the turning point in his life. Convinced that he would continue working on manga, he stopped attending school after three months and started living as a.With the help of his brother Yasutaka, he created his first manga works.
Despite the fact that his mother opposed his manga aspirations, he submitted his works for publication, accumulating many rejections. It is said that when the young Nagai submitted his tables to publishers, his mother secretly convinced publishers to reject them. However, his work was noticed by, which contacted. Thanks to some trial manga he created with the help of Yasutaka, Nagai was finally accepted into the studio of Ishinomori in 1965.The trial manga was about a, and was a prototype for a different story, Kuro no Shishi. Nagai was 19 years old when he made this work; it started at 15 or 16 pages and ended up being 88 pages long after a year, and was untitled at that time. Ishinomori saw this work and praised Nagai for it, but commented that the design was too chunky and he should improve it a little.
Two or three days later, Nagai was invited to become an assistant to Ishinomori and this work was forgotten until 2007, when it was published in the magazine Comic Ran Twins Sengoku Busho Retsuden (コミック乱 TWINS 戦国武将列伝) by under the name Satsujinsha (殺刃者(さつじんしゃ)). His professional career began in 1967, despite the opposition of his mother. First works Part of a series onand.After working as assistant of Shotaro Ishinomori, his very first professional manga work was Meakashi Polikichi (目明しポリ吉 also 目明かしポリ吉), a very short gag comedy, published in November 1967 in the magazine Bokura. Almost at the same time, this was followed by the manga adaptation of Tomio Sagisu's TV anime (ちびっこ怪獣ヤダモン, Little Monster Yadamon), also published in 1967 in the same magazine. A common misconception is that Kuro No Shishi ( Black Lion) was his first manga work; while not entirely false, what Nagai really made two years earlier than Meakashi Polikichi, was only a draft for what would later be Kuro no Shishi, which would not be actually published until 1978.His first works consisted entirely of short gag comedy manga. This would change with.First success and controversies In less than a year after debuting, he met with a big success. After being an unknown manga artist, he became a protagonist of televised debates and journalistic investigations.In 1968, while was getting prepared to launch its first manga publication, in order to compete with other magazines from rival companies (like from and from ), Nagai was invited to be one of the first manga artists publishing in the new magazine.
He contemplated this, since he had to design a long-running series instead of the auto-conclusive short stories that he had been developing until that point. He accepted and the series became a big success, being the first for Nagai and making Shōnen Jump sell more than one million copies. With, Nagai was the first to introduce eroticism in modern manga and became the creator of modern erotic manga, opened the door to a new era in manga and also became the symbol of an entire generation. This work has influenced Japanese society radically, completely changing the common perceptions of manga.Until Harenchi Gakuen, Japanese manga had been relatively tame affairs, but things soon changed. The manga became so popular that several live-action films and TV series based on the manga were developed. Harenchi Gakuen is considered as probably the work that has had the most influence in the world of manga at the end of the 1960s, leading the newly born Shōnen Jump magazine to sell millions of copies per week.A scandalous manga in its time, it is a very innocent series by today's standards. At the time of its original publication, however, it met with severe criticism by some parts of the Japanese society.
Harenchi Gakuen was criticized as vulgar because it introduced overt eroticism to children. Male students and teachers were depicted as being preoccupied with catching glimpses of girls' panties or naked bodies. Many parents, women's associations, and protested.In particular, the PTA protests over Harenchi Gakuen were notorious. Nagai was bombarded with interview requests from newspapers, magazines and TV. Whenever he flew outside of Tokyo, TV cameras were waiting for him. He was branded a 'nuisance' and even an 'enemy of society'. He, however, had a clear sense of what things he could or could not do with the manga.At first, Nagai did not think that the opposition was against him, since he was aware of the standards that applied with movies and similar things for an audience below 18 years old.
At that time, he never drew sex scenes, avoided pictures of genitals and made nudes cute rather than sexy, though the manga regularly showed male genitals throughout its run, including a castration scene. His fans supported him throughout the PTA protests. They sent him letters where they expressed how they were aware that the adults cracking down on them were reading raunchier stuff than what Nagai was producing.The protests were not only against the manga, but also against the TV series. The PTA managed to prevent the distribution of the magazine in some parts of Japan.
As a result of the protests, when the series was about to be cancelled because of the PTA, Nagai changed the theme in Harenchi Gakuen into a more mature and serious matter, from nonsense gags with sexy touches, to a full-scale war where murder was depicted in the bloody way for which many know him. This led to the famous ending of Harenchi Gakuen, symbol of freedom and of rejection of the hypocrisy, where all students and teachers, while defending their freedom of expression, are killed by the PTA and other parental forces. This was the ironic answer that Nagai gave to the PTA. (In the end, this was not the actual ending of Harenchi Gakuen, as the title would subsequently return to publication for several years.)It was also around that time that he created Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko (ガクエン退屈男), also known as Guerrilla High, another school-themed manga, but this time war between youths and adults was the main theme. Shortly before that, in 1969, (あばしり一家) was created. Both titles are a direct result of the PTA protests, both being a form of parody of what happened. Abashiri Ikka became a big success, and along with Harenchi Gakuen, the most popular series of Nagai's juvenile period.
Dynamic Productions Thanks to the success of Harenchi Gakuen, Dynamic Productions (ダイナミックプロダクション, also known as Dynamic Production or Dynamic Pro, ダイナミックプロ), was founded by Go Nagai with his brothers in April 1969.Meant to be a group to help him with his works, as a consequence Harenchi Gakuen, where he derived almost no royalties from the TV series, films, or related merchandise, Dynamic Productions became a company established to manage Nagai's relations and contractual rights of his work. Dynamic became one of the first companies to require publishers sign contracts (even today many manga are created and published only on the basis of verbal agreements). It would start as a (limited company) and would change to a (stock company) in 1970.The same year of the foundation of Dynamic Pro, joined the company. He would become Nagai's second assistant after Mitsuru Hiruta, who had been working with Nagai since the beginnings of Harenchi Gakuen. He would become one of Nagai's regular partners and his best friend.
Ken Ishikawa participated as assistant in Harenchi Gakuen, Abashiri Ikka and Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko, particularly in the last one. In parallel with those activities as assistant, he co-produces with Go Nagai what would be in fact his professional debut in manga, Gakuen Bangaichi (1969-09-08 1970-09-22), and also his second manga, Sasurai Gakuto (1970-01 1970-05). He temporarily quit Dynamic Productions in 1970.
This prompted Nagai to end Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko and the story of this series would be left inconclusive.Change in genres Even with the changes in Harenchi Gakuen and other series, Nagai remained writing mostly gag comedies, varying only in the thematic. With the success of Harenchi Gakuen and Abashiri Ikka, most editors expected this kind of story from Nagai. This would start to change in 1970, with the one-shot Oni -2889 Nen no Hanran-, which tells a story set in the year 2889 about a war between the race of (who in this story are treated as a lower class) and the human beings. After this, in 1971 came the horror one-shot Susumu-chan Dai Shock about a violent collapse of the parent-child relationships. A series of horror one-shots would follow, in the series called Gensou Kyofu e Hanashi (幻想恐怖絵噺), which comprehends Africa no Chi (an original story of ), Schalken Gahaku (based in the famous story Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by ) and Kuzureru. A little before that, Nagai would be given the chance to write a full of an occult horror story called, which would in turn mark the beginning of his most famous horror work, Devilman.Style and works. Further information:In his series (ハレンチ学園, Shameless School, 1968–1972, magazine) Nagai used eroticism and extreme, graphic violence in kid's manga for the first time in Japan, thus breaking and becoming quite controversial.
His use of violence and gross humour was widely loathed in many corners of Japan's society and became a concern for many at the time. The series temporary ended dramatically when all the characters died during a massacre. This type of content would be a trend in most of Nagai's later work and in those of other directors such as.
A Harenchi Gakuen live-action TV series followed in the early 1970s, as well as several other live-action movies and an version ( Heisei Harenchi Gakuen, or 'Modern-Day Shameless School') in the mid-1990s.In 1970, Go Nagai started a company, to fund his and ventures. Dynamic Productions' first titles were and (あばしり一家, Abashiri Family).After Harenchi Gakuen Nagai created the (マジンガーZ) series, later expanded into, and - many years later -, where he developed the concept of giant.
Mazinger was the first manga where a giant robot was piloted by the hero, thus creating one of the biggest staples of the industry. Mazinger is considered the first successful ' anime show, and has spawned numerous imitations.Simultaneously to Mazinger, he created one of his most popular manga, Debiruman (デビルマン, ), about a demonic hero fighting against hordes of demons.
Nagai also turned Devilman into an anime series which was less violent and gritty than the manga. Years later Nagai revamped this popular series by introducing the main character as a female and altering the storyline. This series is called Devilman Lady (デビルマンレディー, in the ). It was first released as a manga and later animated. Go Nagai considers the Devilman and Mazinger series to be his life's work due to their massive popularity all over the world. (Kenichi Ishikawa, Rokuro Gen (Pen name for collaboration works)). Gosaku Ota.
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