6/19/2023 0 Comments Parasyte 01 hitoshi iwaakiWhat is it that you find appealing about Osamu Tezuka? You’ve mentioned learning a lot from Tezuka’s How to Draw Manga in an old interview, too. –I’ve read that you became an avid reader of manga when you were in your last year of high school, starting with the pocket editions of Osamu Tezuka’s work. I was a quiet child, one who didn’t stand out much, and yet I was also a self-centered child. I would always hang around with the same friend, but sometimes I didn’t care to even spend time with him. Iwaaki: I never once went to any cram schools. –What was your childhood like? I’d love to hear about anything: your family, your hobbies, things you used to wonder about. I’m pretty slow at drawing, though, so I suppose I don’t have that many works to my name, considering it’s been twenty years. Iwaaki: I’m proud to have gotten this far. Congratulations! I’d like to start by asking you to summarize what those twenty years have been like. The year 2005 marks your twentieth year as a manga artist since you first got published with “Sea of Trash” in ’85. Spoiler alert: Iwaaki is exactly the kind of man you would expect him to be. I got it from the same magazine I took the Sakuishi/Eguchi conversation. Here’s a short interview with Parasyte and Historie artist Hitoshi Iwaaki, conducted via fax in 2005, when Historie would still only have been two volumes in.
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