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Fujio Akatsuka
Tensai Bakabon, Osomatsu-kun, Himitsu no Akko-chan and Moretsu Ataro, and the catchphrase 'This is fine' (Kore de ii no da). Born in Manchuria, he drew manga at the legendary Tokiwa-so apartment alongside Shotaro Ishinomori and others, rose to the summit of the gag-manga genre, and kept the children of Showa Japan laughing. While leading Fujio Productions to turn out work at enormous volume, he also took the unknown Tamori into his home and sent him out into the world. On 9 April 1967, Tensai Bakabon began in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Why did this work win a popularity that seemed almost unnatural? What overlapped on the day it began? We read it against the phases of destiny and time, down to the strikingly similar destiny he shares with Tamori, who closed his eulogy with 'I, too, am one of your many works'.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Fujio Akatsuka (赤塚藤雄) — Manga artist
- Period analysed
- 1935–2008
- Three pillars
- Day 癸巳 / Month 乙酉 / Year 乙亥
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Goat)
- Destiny area
- 0.329 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny holds almost nothing that obstructs, and stands on spirit alone, free of honour and wealth.
- The twenty years from his debut to his signature work lay inside a special span of time in which the frame of fortune comes off.
- Tensai Bakabon began on the day that frame came off most widely.
- In his later years, when the same pattern of time came round again, the result appeared.
- He shares a strikingly similar destiny with Tamori, the man he took in.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did Tensai Bakabon win a popularity that seemed almost unnatural?
- What overlapped on 9 April 1967?
- What came round in his later years, and what result appeared?
- How closely do the destinies of Fujio Akatsuka and Tamori resemble each other?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1956 | 丙申 (天) | Debuts and moves into the Tokiwa-so apartment |
| 1962 | 壬寅 (天) | Osomatsu-kun and Himitsu no Akko-chan begin |
| 1965 | 乙巳 (天) | Founds Fujio Productions |
| 1967 | 丁未 (天天) | 9 Apr — Tensai Bakabon begins; Moretsu Ataro the same year |
| 1975 | 乙卯 | Tamori moves to Tokyo and lives in his house |
| 1998 | 戊寅 | Receives the Medal with Purple Ribbon |
| 2002 | 壬午 (天) | Collapses with a cerebral haemorrhage |
| 2008 | 戊子 | Dies on 2 August; Tamori delivers the eulogy |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The Horse–Goat void and the six kin
- The twenty years of the great-cycle void
- Water against fire, and the day pillar 癸巳
- A destiny strikingly like Tamori's
- The result of 壬午
- The four layers of 9 April 1967
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii