Description
Book Synopsis Leiji Matsumoto is one of Japan''s most influential myth creators. Yet the huge scope of his work, spanning past, present and future in a constantly connecting multiverse, is largely unknown outside Japan. Matsumoto was the major creative force on Star Blazers, America''s gateway drug for TV anime, and created Captain Harlock, a TV phenomenon in Europe. As well as space operas, he made manga on musicians from Bowie to Tchaikovsky, wrote the manga version of American cowboy show Laramie, and created dozens of girls'' comics. He is a respected manga scholar, an expert on Japanese swords, a frustrated engineer and pilot who still wants to be a spaceman in his eighties.
This collection of new essays--the first book on Matsumoto in English--covers his seven decades of comic creation, drawing on contemporary scholarship, artistic practice and fan studies to map Matsumoto''s vast universe. The contributors--artists, creators, translators and scholars--mirro
Table of Contents
Foreword
Gilles Poitras 1
Preface
Darren-Jon Ashmore and Helen McCarthy 3
Glossary 5
Introduction
Darren-Jon Ashmore and Helen McCarthy 7
Leiji Matsumoto: A Life in Context
Helen McCarthy 13
Sailing a Sea of Stars: Growth and Change in Matsumoto's Space Opera
Darren-Jon Ashmore 29
Even Better Than the Real Thing: Matsumoto's Manga
Tim Eldred 57
The Cockpit and the Nobility of Failure
Jonathan Tarbox 84
Female in a Male Universe: Women in Matsumoto's Space Operas
Stefanie Thomas 111
The Impact of Matsumoto's Universe on Anime Magazines as a Platform for Cosplay
Edmund W. Hoff 147
A Captain's Tribute to Leiji Matsumoto: A Cosplay Project
Ondine Montoya and Matthew Montoya 164
Translating Leiji Matsumoto
Zack Davisson 187
Interview with Leiji Matsumoto
Darren-Jon Ashmore 200
General Bibliography and Weblinks 211
Appendix A: Matsumoto Animation 213
Appendix B: Matsumoto Comics and Graphic Works 215
Appendix C: Matsumoto Collaborations and Other Works 229
About the Contributors 233
Index 235
