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Noboru Kawasaki
Star of the Giants, Inakappe Taisho, Isamu the Wilderness Boy, Song of the Ladybird. Hyuma Hoshi in his spring-loaded training harness, and his father Ittetsu overturning the dinner table. Noboru Kawasaki breathed life into Ikki Kajiwara's stories with dramatic drawings full of sweat and tears, and swept all of Japan into the heat of the sports-guts genre. He debuted at sixteen as a rental-book manga artist, fell ill, moved to Tokyo three times, and drew so many serials that he slept properly only twice a week. On 30 March 1968 the television anime of Star of the Giants began, and its ratings stayed above thirty per cent. He was twenty-seven, on a day when protecting forces entered twice into a vessel that grows only through hardship, and the water of his destiny came together as one. Why did the door to a national work open on this day? What was this vessel promised at birth? We read the vessel he was born with against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Noboru Kawasaki (川崎のぼる) — Manga artist
- Period analysed
- 1941–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 丙子 / Month 己丑 / Year 庚辰
- Void branches
- 申酉 (Monkey–Rooster)
- Destiny area
- 0.12 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
- The branches of his destiny gather into the water of his protecting force, a vessel on which a tailwind blows through reality.
- He carries a presence that imposes hardship on the spirit, and grows only through it; twenty years of illness and setbacks trained the hand that draws.
- His national works were born in the decade when protecting forces came round.
- On the day the anime began, protecting forces entered twice and the water of his destiny was completed.
- He entered twenty years of void and brought his serial manga to a close.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did a manga artist with no interest in baseball draw Japan's greatest baseball manga?
- What overlapped on 30 March 1968, the day the anime began?
- Rental books, illness, three moves to Tokyo: what do those twenty years of hardship mean within his destiny?
- Why did he close his last serial the year after moving to Kumamoto?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1957 | 丁酉 (天) | Debuts with a rental-book manga |
| 1963 | 癸卯 | Moves to Tokyo for the third time, with his wife |
| 1966 | 丙午 | Star of the Giants begins in Weekly Shonen Magazine |
| 1967 | 丁未 | Kodansha Children's Manga Award |
| 1968 | 戊申 (天) | 30 Mar — the Star of the Giants anime begins |
| 1971 | 辛亥 | Star of the Giants ends |
| 1973 | 癸丑 | Song of the Ladybird begins |
| 1984 | 甲子 | Closes Kawasaki Production |
| 2003 | 癸未 | Moves to Kumamoto |
| 2004 | 甲申 (天天) | Ends his last serial |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade. (天天) = void year within a void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- Earthly branches gathered in water
- The hurting-officer pattern and the lower chart
- Twenty years of 庚寅 and 辛卯
- The decade of 壬辰
- Back to a desk of his own
- The four layers of 30 March 1968
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii