What is the best thing anime pioneer Go Nagai has brought to the genre?
| Mecha, the other ones would have come eventually anyways. |
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| Overuse of violence and nudity. |
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ichii_1 said: Mecha, the other ones would have come eventually anyways. Mecha had already come at the time that he did Mazinger Z! Tetsujin 28-Gou came 16 years before(It has an anime still running right now in Fuji TV). Also all the others genres except Ecchi already existed even before Go Nagai touched them. He didn't introduce female heroines, at least Rose of Versailles existed 1 year before it and I'm almost certain that Osamu Tezuka's Princess Knight already had that. The big thing that Go Nagai achieved with Cutie Honey was redefine the Magical Girls(Mahou Shoujo) genre, just like he had done previously with the Mecha as well. Also the ecchi in Harenchi was totally like the ecchi of today(OK, not like the worst kind of Ecchi) and it had the same intention(Go Nagai even said that he took inspiration from Play Boy magazine), the thing is that the series was also Comedy, not that Ecchi at the time was also comedy. For dark demonic Heroes there already existed Gegege no Kitaro, the most famous Youkai series ever. It existed 12 years before of Devilman. Probably only the gory part was a new thing that Devilman brought to the table. I would say that the best thing he brought was Ecchi, that was the only entire genre that he was the 100% creator and the fact that Ecchi is a mega popular thing right now, probably only less popular than the Magical Girls Genre. The rest was more redefining and directing the genre in the right direction(or at least a super popular one). |
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Haneken2086 said: bigivelfhq said: He didn't introduce female heroines, at least Rose of Versailles existed 1 year before it and I'm almost certain that Osamu Tezuka's Princess Knight already had that. The big thing that Go Nagai achieved with Cutie Honey was redefine the Magical Girls(Mahou Shoujo) genre, just like he had done previously with the Mecha as well. Princess Knight wasn't too popular though, and Rose of Versailles came out after Cutie Honey. But I will concede that both Honey and Rose contributed greatly to female heroines becoming an established part of anime. It depends if you're talking of anime or work overall. Rose of Versailles got its 1st volume in November of 1972, Cutie Honey 1st volume in October of 1973. In terms of anime Cutie Honey came in the exact same month as the manga(this practice is a recurring Go Nagai one), Rose of Versailles came 6 years after the end of the manga in 1979. Haneken2086 said: bigivelfhq said: Also the ecchi in Harenchi was totally like the ecchi of today(OK, not like the worst kind of Ecchi) and it had the same intention(Go Nagai even said that he took inspiration from Play Boy magazine), the thing is that the series was also Comedy, not that Ecchi at the time was also comedy. I wonder why it hasn't gotten an anime. But then again it probably wasn't as popular as Honey or Kekko Kamen. Harenchi was mega popular at the time, one of the pillars in the beginning of Weekly Shounen Jump, and as a pillar at that time one of the responsible for making a new magazine turn into the most popular manga magazine in Japan. The reason the series doesn't have an anime is mainly two: At the time anime wasn't as frequent as right now, Harenchi instead of anime got a TV live-action. The series was super polemic, it even got a huge number of parents and institutions burning the comic in public as protest, and it was even forced to not be distributed in some regions of Japan(that include in the Magazine). Also is to note that it indeed got an anime, specifically an OVA. In term of Live-Action it got a TV series and 5 movies. Haneken2086 said: bigivelfhq said: For dark demonic Heroes there already existed Gegege no Kitaro, the most famous Youkai series ever. It existed 12 years before of Devilman. Probably only the gory part was a new thing that Devilman brought to the table. But Kitaro wasn't really horror, just a family story about a bunch of ghouls. Devilman was serious horror and gore. Kitaro is totally an horror! More horror than Devilman even. Is basically the origin of the Youkai Myth in Japan(Until that time Japan had a lot of unconnected monsters, like we have Vampires and Werewolves and other things. And with Kitaro the author connected all of them. In reality he includes Vampires and Werewolves in the Youkai Lore). The original story, Hakaba no Kitaro(there is 2008 anime adaptation of it) is pretty gloomy, which differs to Toei animation more kids friendly version. |
Waifu_Strangler said: Overuse of violence and nudity. you said it |
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| Where is "All of above" choice? If I'm not mistaken, he also made the first mahou-shoujo not aimed at girls but at more at boys. bigivelfhq said: Mecha had already come at the time that he did Mazinger Z! Tetsujin 28-Gou came 16 years before(It has an anime still running right now in Fuji TV). Also all the others genres except Ecchi already existed even before Go Nagai touched them. Nagai made the first piloted mecha. Tetsujin 28 was just a robot controlled with external controller. |
abystoma2Nov 26, 2015 12:37 PM
You all need to watch Nami. |
abystoma2 said: Where is "All of above" choice? If I'm not mistaken, he also made the first mahou-shoujo not aimed at girls but at more at boys. bigivelfhq said: Mecha had already come at the time that he did Mazinger Z! Tetsujin 28-Gou came 16 years before(It has an anime still running right now in Fuji TV). Also all the others genres except Ecchi already existed even before Go Nagai touched them. Nagai made the first piloted mecha. Tetsujin 28 was just a robot controlled with external controller. Yep. I never said that he wasn't a Pioneer of the genre, but that the genre already existed before that. The same thing Happened with Mahou Shoujo where he defined the main transformation(And because Go Nagai is the pervert he is, the naked phase of the transformations happened!). |
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