So what's the deal with this guy? I thought he was famous

>>14133405

He's famous for both.

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>>14133419
He doesn't seem very popular even in Japanese now. Usually authors get more popular when they're dead, this guy seems to be fading away.

>>14133405
>>14133419
It helps that he presents his historical manga in a "matter of fact" way.

>>14133432
I bet it's his family's fault. Bunch of ungrateful greedy moochers.

>>14133432
>He doesn't seem very popular even in Japanese now
You're wrong. He's as popular as Tezuka and as culturally significant. They're both immortalized as legends of manga and they are household names like Stan Lee is in the USA.

>>14133462
When was the last time something of his got animated?

>>14133405
I think in Japan, his Romance of the Three Kingdoms manga is more famous than any of his work. Even Tetsujin.

>>14133432
Part of that might have something to do with his estate.

Yokoyama basically turned his hand to a lot of genres same as Tezuka and Ishinomori, and like both of them he had a large hand in codifying them. He's the grandfather of mecha as we know it thanks to Tetsujin 28, Giant Robo made big waves in tokusatsu, he was one of the authors who popularized ninja manga and magical girls, he was at the forefront of ESP and sci-fi manga for a decade with stuff like Babel II. He wasn't a great artist as such like some of his contemporaries but his true strength lay in his writing ability, which more than made up for it. He was renowned for his hard boiled, extremely matter of fact style which lent even the most outlandish of premises an air of realism. Hirohiko Araki holds him up as the King of Suspense manga.

His best work was probably his historical epics, adaptations of Japanese history or classical Chinese literature, hence why you got that when you googled him. His version of Romance of the Twelve Kingdoms is often held up as one of the best adaptations of the source material.

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>>14133478
Heck, it's so famous that his manga is like a haven for reaction pic and memes in Japan.

>>14133468
That 2007 Giant Robo TV anime?

>>14133480
I think he's a better artist than Tezuka, which isn't really saying much, in my opinion..but still.

>>14133483
I don't expect the long flight of swans to be understood by the common bird.jpg

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>>14133483
Sangokushi has the dankest memes

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>>14133488
>I think he's a better artist than Tezuka
I agree with you.

Yokoyama may not draw very complicated characters, but he was an artistic master. His sense of scene composition is up there with the best, and his ability to make so many unique character designs (despite using a very simplistic style) is mind boggling. The character designs in Sangokushi are brilliant in their ability to differentiate such an immensely huge cast.

>>14133487
Wow an entire 1 anime

>>14133468
Why would an anime adaptation be an indicator for anything?

>>14133501
What other manga from the 70s was adapted in the last 10 years? It's not the only one, but there aren't many.

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>>14133500
I'm really loving his simplistic yet unique mecha designs. They hold up a lot better than most.

>>14133505
I'm not sure how to explain, there doesn't seem to be anyone working to really spread his work compared to Ishinomori or Tezuka. Especially looking at the incredibly basic site they have for him.

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>>14133507
He manages to make a lot of distinctive designs. It's a shame that mecha designs have gotten so homogenized over the decades.

>>14133500
>>14133507
To add onto this, his art seems to be the most consistent if you were to group all the /m/ granddaddies together. No weird changes in art style or stuff looking too cartoony.

>>14133507
I think his designs held up better than the Mazingers and the getters, they have a sort of timelessness to them since they took inspiration from myth as well as contemporary art.

>>14133616
>they have a sort of timelessness to them since they took inspiration from myth as well as contemporary art.
>implying Mazinger and Getter didn't
>implying Knight robot and Oni robot didn't

>>14133616
I think one thing that helps is the simple color pallet that isn't toy-bait. Like, there are a bunch of cool mechanical beasts in Mazinger that have give off this chinese bootleg feel because of the colors used.

>>14133624
I think you're just pushing your cultural perspective about colors.

>>14133432

It's not because Kubrick or Hitchcock are not hot topics among youngsters right now that their names will ever fade away from movie history. Also, maybe you should check ebookjapan, Yokoyama's Romance of the Three Kingdoms is among their best sellers.

>>14133650
>It's not because Kubrick or Hitchcock are not hot topics among youngsters right now that their names will ever fade away from movie history.
Good comparison. It's exactly like that when it comes to Japan and their manga.

>>14133624
They do have color schemes that look like toy-bait though.

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>>14133483
If there was a compilation of all the dank memes and what volumes they're from we could start using them and pretend to be Japanese

ITT: Yokoyamafags being almost as delusional as
Ishikawafags

>>14133841
Get out of here, spic.

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I want to see more of the women he draws. Anyone got some spicy pics?

his designs are crap

>>14133854

Your spic detector might be broken.

>>14134098

Then, sir, I like crap.

>>14133468
>>14133487
I think this is the most recent Yokoyama animation actually.

http://www.fujitv.co.jp/en/a_13_01.html

Which... yeah, his estate are shitheads.

>>14134180
Found out on twitter the other day they are shitheads but not SUPER shitheads

The reason that's cited the most for them being awful, Giant Robo being dropped from SRWa3 is not because they ramped up the price for everything. It's because they included all the series referenced in GR as separate licenses that needed to be bought so GR was hugely expensive

That said, there should be some new Yokoyama. I think Sangokushi should be adapted but with stuff from other sources and not just the manga, kind of like ROTK 2010. But it would have all the dank memes and husbando designs so nobody would be upset with the changes

>>14133483
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>>14133495
someone pls explain the memes

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He did an adaption of SHE which is pretty cool
http://fullusedbook.blog119.fc2.com/blog-entry-885.html?sp

>>14133480
>His version of Romance of the Twelve Kingdoms is often held up as one of the best adaptations of the source material.
Yeah, it's pretty true to the source material, but it's such a straight adaption and the art is just so weak that I'd personally rather read the book a fourth time than bother with the comic.

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>>14133480
>>14133483

>>14134831
Somebody discovered a popular comic pose of the time!

>>14134831
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09RGj7BLGBo

So I finished Mars just now. I'm a little disappointed at the lack of characters in it and the pacing seemed way too quick. They had the newspaper reporter and the father and the daughter. The latter who just kind of stopped showing up for some reason. There's very little emotion in the manga because of that. The ending was also super abrupt and the final God design felt really lazy.

6/10

>>14134970
>They had the newspaper reporter and the father and the daughter.
You're forgetting the six aliens, the general and the politicians.
>The latter who just kind of stopped showing up for some reason.
What were they going to do? Become super heroes? They were just normal people who got Mars acquainted with the world.
>There's very little emotion in the manga because of that
That doesn't even make sense.
>The ending was also super abrupt
No?
>the final God design felt really lazy.
Okay, that's just a dumb statement.

0/10 get smart

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>>14135369
>What were they going to do? Become super heroes? They were just normal people who got Mars acquainted with the world.


Gee, when everyone else is either super powered or someone of power, what could normal people add? What could a female character who changed the protag's opinion on humans possible add to the story?!

>The ending was also super abrupt
>No?

Yes it is. It happens within a few pages and the protag changes his mind over the military trying to protect him from an angry mob.

>Okay, that's just a dumb statement.
It went from having a cool Sphinx mech to giving the final boss a giant ball mech. Please.

>>14135636
>Gee what a shitpost
What do you want? Romance?
>Yes it is. It happens within a few pages
No, it was a volume of build up. You just didn't see it coming. Try rereading it.
>Please
Took the word right out of my mouth. Plebs when will they learn?

>>14135708
Why are you so angry I criticized your manga? It's not like I hated it.

>What do you want? Romance?
For an important character to not just vanish?

>No, it was a volume of build up. You just didn't see it coming. Try rereading it.

No, he decided to protect them until suddenly at the end. Try rereading it.

>Took the word right out of my mouth. Plebs when will they learn?

BALL.

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>>14135751
>Why are you so angry I criticized your manga?
I'm just bewildered at your dumb statements, it's worth ridicule. Also, point out exactly where I'm angry; you're just throwing around buzzwords. I don't really care if you loved it, liked it or hated it.

>No, he decided to protect them until suddenly at the end. Try rereading it.
Again with the dumb statements. The manga specifically portrayed the damning deceit and distrust of humans pretty much throughout the second half of the story. The people Mars was trying to save were doing everything to backstab him or gain power because they were driven by base instincts of fear and greed. They trapped Mars, which he took peacefully. The sixth god played on the people's hysteria and turned them against Mars, but again he tried to calm them. The entire last volumes builds up two things: humans behaving the way the aliens warned of, and the fear of Mars regaining his original programming. In an ironic twist, the humans beating Mars cause a shock so great that he slips back into his original state and decides to kill them all. The fact that these very obvious themes and direction of the story went right over your head just shows that you're in no position to comment.

>BALL
Yes? It's a great utilitarian design. It's not my fault you're a pleb.

>>14135793
>I'm not mad I swear!

Yeah, okay, dude. Go be a pleb elsewhere with some balls in your mouth.

>The fact that these very obvious themes and direction of the story went right over your head just shows that you're in no position to comment.

>save were doing everything to backstab him or gain power

They took precautions. He was locked up because if he was killed the earth would be doomed. The general cooperated with him and let him out getting himself killed in the process. Most of the humans we see aren't bad people.

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>>14135862
>Yeah, okay, dude. Go be a pleb elsewhere with some balls in your mouth.
Well you've ousted yourself as a shitty troll. If your argument is serious, you've also ousted yourself as an idiot with no reading comprehension. The narrative even states it obviously at one point. You're a colossal moron with a bad opinion. The entire story went clear over your head.

>>14135908
Since your original post consisted of you calling me a pleb I don't think you have any room to talk.

>>14134245

They could always use the GR manga or the toku show

>>14135963
>toku show
Problem with that is that SRW never uses live-action material, for some reason.

>>14135968

They never used manga before Linebarrel in L either

>>14135963
Yeah, SRW should just use the manga version. The OVA design is cool, but the original is too.

>>14135978
and when Demonbane happens in UX, they explicitly reference stuff from the VN that never happens in the anime.

I liked Mars. It was short and sweet and shows someone that tries to do good be broken down by man's inhumanity to man.

>>14135978
They used the Getter manga back in SRW 4/F

>>14135996

That was made before his apparition in the manga.

>>14134777

You never read the book. Not even tried.

>>14136034
It was not. Getter Robo Go ended in '92.

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Hmm, this looks familiar

>>14136138

You're thinking of the anime.

>>14136173
SRW 4 came out in 1995. F came out in 1997. The first chapter of the Shin Getter Robo manga was published in the SRW F Comic

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>>14133658

It's fucking hilarious to realize that one of the japs most well revered comics is nothing but an adaptation of a chink story. Goes to show how talentless they truly are.

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Looks like daily spicposting has begun.

>>14139463
>>14139442
>>14139478
>>14139452
>>14139432

>>14135963
>>14135968
They used it in Super Tokusatsu Taisen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dqyEXfD_tM

>>14134245
>Giant Robo being dropped from SRWa3 is not because they ramped up the price for everything. It's because they included all the series referenced in GR as separate licenses that needed to be bought so GR was hugely expensive
Isn't that basically the same thing?

Someone should translate his ninja manga.

>>14139579
Masked Ninja Akakage or Kagemaru of Iga? Akakage gets all the attention for some reason, which is weird considering Kagemaru seems to have come first.

>>14139579
>>14139952
I'd rather see Otonashi no Ken.

>>14139952
Everyone remembers the privileged youngest child. That said, HnG and/or Happy might probably do it, depending on how dead-set they are on doing Yokoyama's repertoire.

>>14139500
Shame about the game blowing chunks though.

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>>14139952
Iga no Kagemaru .Would be cool if there's a female ninja in it but Yokoyama doesn't seem too fond of drawing women...which is a shame since the few I've seen are super cute.

I just finished Giant Robo..and that's it? Was it cancelled or something? It feels like something that should have been a long running work not a measly two volumes.

>>14140303

No, that is in fact the way it is supposed to end, you damned idiot.

>>14140321
Hey spic.

>>14140421
>I never attack people for having an opinion

Lying is not becoming of you. Don't do it. Also, I suppose that's why it looks better than his usual works then.

>>14140421
>Satoru Ozawa

Was interested in Ao no 6-gou but not sure if it's faithful to the manga.

>>14140421
>It was not even draw by Yokoyama himself, but by Satoru Ozawa.

False. Ozawa collaborated with Yokoyama on that manga, but only for the first 12 chapters. Yokoyama was head of that entire project.

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What happened to the Babel 2 translation?

Have any of Yokoyama's works been translated? Either by fans or officially?

I know I've seen a few panels of his 12 Kingdoms translated, and a few pages of Mars were posted earlier in this thread. Which groups worked on those?

>>14140762
Hox/HappyScans/Hokuto no Gun/Dynamic Pro Scanlations have all worked on Yokoyama manga. Just go to Batoto.

>>14140778

As a note, Yokoyama manga is the only thing of any value those groups have worked on.

>>14140749
HnG is translating them at a really slow pace, I think

>>14140804
nandatte

>>14140830

I meant what I wrote, tripfag.

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>>14140842
You're wrong?

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>>14140778
Tfw have no interest in his historical non-fiction manga.

>>14140863

No I am not, and someone like you cannot possibly say otherwise.

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>>14140867
You're wrong and there's nothing that someone like you could possibly say otherwise

>>14140804

Oh, look, another idiot on the internet. What a surprise.

>>14140884

You can't offer any proof to the contrary, and I'm the idiot? That's funny.

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>She wants to fuck

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Getter Robo!

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>>14143790
Shin and Go were pretty good.

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>>14143809
Why isn't the Tetsujin 28 manga translated?

>>14144009
Supposedly, it's tough to get a hold on. Even if that can be achieved, you'd still have to do roughly 20 volumes of material, so most sane individuals wouldn't be up to the task.
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=31541

>>14143600

You don't deserve the time and effort.

>>14143752
>The original Ginrei has bangs

>>14144918
>still responding

Are you a nig?

>>14146360
Probably hasn't read and seen everything the groups he insulted did/are working on, either.

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http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/samusongo/21309045.html
Great site with lots of pages of his mecha manga

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>>14146677
Also merchandise

>>14146399

If he did, he'd know I'm right.

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>Stopping the translation right when it starts getting good

It's been pretty neat. Babel II is pretty unsympathetic and a bit of a Gary Sue, but Yomi is a pretty interesting guy. Babel gets creepier by the chapter whether it's intentional or not and the fights are exciting as fuck. Although like Giant Robo and Mars it's lacking in developed side characters.

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Were there multiple Giant Robo manga series?

>>14148735

Like any show on TV back then

I see plenty of deleted posts.

Did the spic get btfo?

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>>14149533
Looks like it

>>14148735
At least one is based on the old Toei show.

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>>14150231
Any idea who drew it?
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/samusongo/31618898.html

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>>14147704
Experiencing Babel II made me understand why he's the final boss in Giant Robo. Fucker is creepy and overpowered as all hell.

Has anyone talked about subbing more of the anime?

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>>14150324
Which anime? I know there are several adaptions and another Giant Robo anime that aired on TV.

>>14150383
I guess he means "GR - Giant Robo" which is just an adaptation of the original that nobody cares about, it's got nothing to do with the Imaishi OVA series.

>>14150383
>>14150396
Meant the old Babel II anime, actually. Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I've seen GR - Giant Robo, it's boring.

>>14149533

No. I'm here, just not caring enough to post.

>>14149533

Odd how only some of my posts were deleted.

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>>14150396
What?

>>14154639
There was an anime loosely based off of Yokoyama's original Giant Robo released in 2007 called GR Giant Robo.

It has nothing to do with the 90's OVA, Giant Robo.

>>14154709
I meant more about the Imaishi OVA series he mentioned

>>14150437
>Meant the old Babel II anime, actually. Sorry, I wasn't clear.
I want translation of The Day Earth Burned and Siege of Babel, dammit.

>>14150324
Not yet so far, although I wouldn't put it past Luurah to tackle that particular version, since it was in his era.

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Another cool blog with lots of scans
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kaze2010_case_case/folder/432209.html

By the way, does his Daimos manga have any relation with the anime?

>>14155485

Did you see Yokoyama's name anywhere in the anime? That should answer your question.

>>14155485
>>14156258
Yokoyama's Daimos has nothing to do with Tosho Daimos and even predates it. I don't know why they used the same name.

>>14135978
Crossbone Gundam in Alpha 2

>>14156297
>Yokoyama's Daimos has nothing to do with Tosho Daimos and even predates it. I don't know why they used the same name.
"Deimos" (which is pronounced "daimos") is the name of a Greek god and of a moon orbiting Mars.

Presumably, both Yokoyama's Daimos and Tosho Daimos took their name from that.

Is Yokoyama's Daimos related to his Mars stories?

>>14154969
Everything I've heard about them says they're bad though.

>>14155030
I hope so, I need more of the insanity. And hot gender-bending Rodem

>>14156872
Is that the 70's anime?

>>14156872
>Everything I've heard about them says they're bad though.
the Italian edition of Earth Burned is incomplete but it's awesome.

And from what I've seen of the Siege of Babel scans, it's even better... though it has a goddamn cliffhanger finale!

>>14158164
What's wrong with cliffhangers?

>>14158188
Well, unlike open endings, which are a perfectly legitimate plot device that encourage you to ponder upon their meaning, "cliffhangers" are meant to be resolved as their only purpose is to tease you and compel you to read the next chapter.

>>14158188
this >>14158203

>>14157976
Yes. That one was made to ride on Mazinger's popularity (although Yokoyama probably didn't mind/care).

>>14158397
I wonder what he thought of Nagai.

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>>14157976
Yeah. It's episodic and at least one completely batshit thing happens an episode. And this happens. Doujins fucking where, Japan

>>14150396
>imaishi
it's imagawa anon, you're going to confuse people, you senile madman

>>14160691
>batshit
With this guy as one of the writers, there's little wonder why.
https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=creator&creatorid=4568

Also, this is the very first show Shingo Araki did character designs for, interestingly enough.

>>14161279
So that's why he did the character designs for that awful nineties OVA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGXPs1CsLnU

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New chapters of Babel II soon?

Also, I tried to read his historical manga and just can't get into them. Which makes me sad.

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>>14162756
Shit, forgot link
http://www.hokutonogun.com/?p=26409#comment-75969

>>14161344

Not as awful as Beyond Infinity.

>>14162756
>Also, I tried to read his historical manga and just can't get into them. Which makes me sad.

At least now you know that you're an unthinking pleb. Just move on to things that are more your speed, such as Code Geass or Evangelion.

>>14162762
So rude and so wrong

>>14162762
Yeah, I'd rather read an actual book :^)

>>14162757
Probably, but don't ask the staff about that, they're already annoyed as it is by the idiots that don't bother to read the FAQ or the Chatango.

>>14162845
Isn't that what I just did?

>>14162950
>Several projects are going through a transition, this one among them. Hopefully there’ll be new releases in not too long.
At least you did get a polite response.

>>14162981
Wonder if they're gonna do 101