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The Intense Cover of the Traumatic 'Kazuo Umezu Great Horror Manga Masterpiece Collection' (1968/Kodansha)

2025年2月15日 09:48

I never knew such a magazine (special issue) existed. I wonder what elementary school students at the time felt when they saw this cover at a bookstore. If a large advertisement promoting the release of this magazine had been posted in a train station, how would the society of that time have reacted?
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◆ 'Weekly Shonen Magazine Special Issue Kazuo Umezu Great Horror Manga Masterpiece Collection 1' (1968)
◆ 'Weekly Shonen Magazine Special Issue Kazuo Umezu Great Horror Manga Masterpiece Collection 2' (1968)
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The title is also provocative. "Great Horror" "Masterpiece Collection". The cover alone is worth the price.

"On Horror Manga" Kazuo Umezu 'Kazuo Umezu Great Horror Manga Masterpiece Collection 2'

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m21535324694

It's traumatic if you encounter it without mental preparation. They should make a T-shirt out of this.

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1171344446

Both of the <grotesque monsters> above and below share the same anime version 'Devilman' disturbing? color schemedisturbing? color scheme

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1189312032

Furthermore, I want them to create a "3D display advertisement" based on this illustration and play it, giving equal trauma to the good men and women walking in the city. It would become a popular spot.
It's this scary (highly invasive?) in 2D, so if it were 3D, I'd wet my pants.

Education critic Susumu Abe made defensive remarks in 'Kazuo Umezu Great Horror Manga Masterpiece Collection 1'.

《The "scary manga" route, sparked by "Shojo Friend," spread to other magazines, triggering an unprecedented "girls' thriller" boom. In response, criticism grew from women's groups and educational figures at the time, claiming it had a "bad influence on children."》 Quoted from below

Around 1970 (Showa 45) around that time, was it standard for <grotesque monsters> to be "bronze-colored"?

**The TV anime aired from 1972 to 1973. I've never watched it, but** **The Incredible Hulk** **is the same color too.**
https://lineup.toei-anim.co.jp/ja/tv/devilman/

**I've read the manga and watched a few episodes of the anime, but they should be considered separate things. The manga is a masterpiece. The anime is also good.**
https://lineup.toei-anim.co.jp/ja/tv/devilman/episode/12/

Starting as a project to adapt Go Nagai's 'Demon Lord Dante' into an anime, it resulted in a mostly original work and was the first giant transformation hero show in TV anime history.　　　↓

☆ 'Kazuo Umezu Great Horror Manga Masterpiece Collection' <1> <2> Included Works

★ 'Kazuo Umezu' related books to be published after his passing in 2025

◆ 'Invitation to Horror' (Kawade Bunko)　　*The paperback I own includes the short story 'Rojin'

I believe this book is a re-release of the one first published by the same Kawade Shobo Shinsha in hardcover (1988) and then paperback (1996), but I don't know if there are any differences in the content.

If it's 'Umezu from Kawade', I think as a complete amateur that it would be better to re-release (or reprint?) the 2004 'Bungei Bessatsu: Special Feature: Kazuo Umezu' (KAWADE Yume Mook).

◆ 'I am Kazuo Umezu: From Manga to Art' (Chuokoron-Shinsha)

It seems to be a version of the Yomiuri Shimbun serialization (32 parts total) with additional content. I read the first 5 parts below since they were free, and it is indeed a deep dive and quite interesting.

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