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Osamu Tezuka
Astro Boy, Phoenix, Black Jack, Kimba the White Lion. In the years just after the war he opened up story manga with New Treasure Island, and though he held a doctorate in medicine, he gave his whole life to manga and animation — the man Japan calls the god of manga. On 1 January 1963 Astro Boy, Japan's first thirty-minute weekly television anime series, went on air. Mushi Production, the studio he had built with his own money, split apart and went bankrupt ten years later. In that same month Black Jack began, and Tezuka returned to the summit. On his last hospital bed he is said to have pleaded, 'Please, let me work.' What overlapped in his spacetime on the New Year's Day the television anime began? Why did the greatest comeback rise from the deepest low? We read his exceptional vessel against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫) — Manga artist and animator
- Period analysed
- 1928–1989
- Three pillars
- Day 丁未 / Month 壬戌 / Year 戊辰
- Void branches
- 寅卯 (Tiger–Rabbit)
- Destiny area
- 0.389 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 an exceptional structure whose vessel and fortune are unusually strong.
- This vessel begins to move after a split within his own house.
- On the New Year's Day the television anime began, the fortune of work ran through him twice.
- The peak of his creation and the split of the company he built fall within the same twenty years.
- The serial that began in the very month of his lowest point became the starting point of his comeback.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did Osamu Tezuka come to be called the god of manga?
- What overlapped on 1 January 1963?
- What do the split and bankruptcy of the company he built mean within his destiny?
- Why did the greatest comeback rise from the deepest low?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1946 | 乙酉 | Jan — Debuts with The Diary of Ma-chan |
| 1947 | 丁亥 | New Treasure Island is published |
| 1952 | 壬辰 | Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) begins in Shonen |
| 1961 | 辛丑 (天) | Receives his doctorate in medicine; founds the forerunner of Mushi Production |
| 1963 | 壬寅 (天天) | 1 Jan — The Astro Boy television anime goes on air |
| 1971 | 辛亥 (天) | Jun — Resigns as president of Mushi Production |
| 1973 | 癸丑 (天) | Nov — Mushi Production goes bankrupt; Black Jack begins in Weekly Shonen Champion the same month |
| 1975 | 乙卯 (天天) | Black Jack wins the Japan Cartoonists Association Special Award |
| 1989 | 己巳 | 9 Feb — Dies |
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 four vaults and the single break
- 壬, the guardian of the break
- The twenty void years
- The void of 天胡星, and the last words
- The two seals
- The four layers of 1 January 1963
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii