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Tsukasa Hojo
Cat's Eye, City Hunter, Angel Heart. Three sisters who glide through museums at night as phantom thieves, the sweeper Ryo Saeba who takes 'XYZ' requests on the streets of Shinjuku, and the memories that live on in a transplanted heart. With refined drawing and adult emotion, Tsukasa Hojo brought a new allure to Weekly Shonen Jump in the 1980s. Born in Kokura, Kitakyushu, he studied art at Kyushu Sangyo University, and at twenty his Space Angel received an honourable mention for the Tezuka Award. He made Cat's Eye and City Hunter succeed one after the other, and on 6 April 1987, at twenty-eight, the City Hunter television anime began. He then moved from drawing works to creating the place where works are born: in 2000 he founded Coamix with his colleagues and launched new manga magazines, a rare path for a manga artist. Why were two signature works born one after the other in this period? Why did the one who draws become the one who builds the stage? We read the vessel he was born with against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Tsukasa Hojo (北条司) — Manga artist, co-founder of Coamix
- Period analysed
- 1959–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 丙戌 / Month 丙寅 / Year 己亥
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Goat)
- Destiny area
- 1.08 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 binds his own place and the place of society on the largest scale; his effort takes shape in large forms.
- The path he chose in his teens, following his own heart, became the starting point of the leap that followed.
- His twenties were a decade of tailwind in which the burden he was born with lost its force, and both signature works were born there.
- From thirty, forty years of protecting decades continued, and he moved from drawing works to building the stage.
- The day the anime began, a year binding the three pillars of his destiny into one overlapped the decade of tailwind.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why were two signature works born one after the other in his twenties?
- What overlapped on 6 April 1987, the day the television anime began?
- Why did the one who draws become the one who creates manga magazines?
- What did the choice of path in his teens bring to the fortune that followed?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1979 | 己未 (天) | Space Angel receives an honourable mention for the Tezuka Award |
| 1980 | 庚申 | Debut in Weekly Shonen Jump |
| 1981 | 辛酉 | Cat's Eye begins |
| 1983 | 癸亥 | The Cat's Eye television anime begins |
| 1985 | 乙丑 | City Hunter begins |
| 1987 | 丁卯 | 6 Apr — The City Hunter television anime begins |
| 1991 | 辛未 (天) | City Hunter ends |
| 1996 | 丙子 | Family Compo begins |
| 2000 | 庚辰 | Coamix is founded |
| 2001 | 辛巳 | Weekly Comic Bunch launches; Angel Heart begins |
| 2010 | 庚寅 | Angel Heart 2nd Season begins in Monthly Comic Zenon |
| 2019 | 己亥 | Chief director of the film Angel Sign |
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
- The greater union
- The first decade
- The decade of tailwind
- Twenty years of the first protector
- Twenty years of the second protector
- The four layers of 6 April 1987
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii