Maybe he didn't necessarily think I could make a living from manga, but he was supportive of me from the beginning. Did your father support you in becoming a mangaka? Takahashi: Yes, he did. So it was a regular event at the end of the year for my family that a patient in the hospital would give birth around the time "Kohaku" was over, and we would make a big fuss about it. Almost every year, a baby was born on New Year's Eve (laughs). Even as a child, I always thought that obstetrics and gynecology was a very hard job. What kind of a father was he? Takahashi: He was an obstetrician and gynecologist, and since the clinic was connected to our house, I always saw my father working very hard. Perhaps because he liked my father's poem, he managed to survive without going on board the submarine. As he was about to be placed on the submarine he composed a farewell poem, his superior officer happened to be a person interested in haiku. Takahashi: I've mentioned this once or twice in interviews in the past, but it seems that during the war, my father was almost sent to a submarine as a military doctor. It's said that your father was not only a painter, but also a haiku poet. As I watched and imitated his sketches, I gradually came to like drawing. My father used to do ink painting as a hobby when I was little, he often drew pictures of girls. In the interviews I have read with you in several magazines, youe often mentions your father as an "influential person". It's not exactly what you would call an original landscape, but I guess I unconsciously watched the sky from an early age. Takahashi-sensei's, you were born in Niigata Prefecture, what comes to mind about the landscape of your hometown? Takahashi: I didn't pay much attention to it when I was a child, but as I grew up, I recall the cloudy skies of Niigata's winter sky occasionally. In this long interview, I would like to ask about the inside story of your work in five parts, but this time, which is the first part, I would like to hear mainly about your debut as a manga artist. My favorite magazine as a child was Shonen Sunday. Hear the stories behind her many masterpieces! (5 chapters in total).įrom Gekiga Sonjuku to her debut with Katte na Yatsura Rumiko Takahashi drawing chapter 14 of MAO. The treasure of the manga world, who is now famous not only in Japan but worldwide, from pre-debut anecdotes, to Urusei Yatsura to Kyokai no RINNE. ★ A spoken interview 40,000 characters in length!! ★ You can shade a light blue all around the submarine with the side of your crayon to make it look like it's underwater.Rumiko Takahashi - Long Interview Translated by: Harley Acres Darken the bottom edge, side, and back fins a little more than the rest of the sub. Then take your blue (any shade) crayon and go through all of it again. First add a very light layer of black across the whole ship, except a small, blank circle of white near the nose. Get those colors ready! This will be very simple. It kinda looks like 2 long ovals, framed within a rectangle. You can add a few bumps along the side of the main tube, and some "L" shaped panels in the top portion. Add what looks like a squished "D" around the center left of it. Outline the back edge of the nose, which should follow the shape of your right circle, but moved aside to the right a bit. Outline the ring, and add a propeller fin inside. You can now outline most of you submarine, leaving the ring for the next step. Draw an additional tube shape along the top edge. Draw an "L" sort of shape that curves along the bottom right beside it. Following the left edge of the big circle, draw a slanted rectangle shape on the top edge. Draw one more, diagonal, rectangle shape on the bottom left corner of your other fins. Draw 2 circles to make a "ring" that overlaps the left circle a bit. Draw a long trapezoid through the left circle, with a rectangle coming out the left of it. Draw a curve on the right side of the circle, this extends the nose of the submarine. Connect the top and bottom edges of the circles. Start by drawing a small circle, and then a larger circle to the right of it. We'll be using a marker, pencil, black, and blue crayon today.
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