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Go Nagai
Harenchi Gakuen, Devilman, Mazinger Z, Cutie Honey, Getter Robo, Violence Jack. A school uproar that laughs at the adults in charge, a final war between humanity and demons, a giant robot that a boy climbs into and pilots, a girl who transforms to fight — Go Nagai broke the conventions of boys' manga again and again, and created one after another the story forms that continue to this day. Born in Wajima, Ishikawa, he worked as an assistant to Shotaro Ishinomori and debuted in 1967. Harenchi Gakuen, begun the next year in the first issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, became a social phenomenon and drew heavy criticism. In 1972 he released Devilman, and on 3 December of the same year the TV anime Mazinger Z began. The form of a giant robot piloted from within became the prototype of the robot anime that followed. In 1980 Susano Oh won him the Kodansha Manga Award, and in 2009 the Go Nagai Memorial Museum opened in his hometown of Wajima. Why did his major works gather in the ten years of his twenties? What was the vessel promised at his birth? We read the vessel he was born with against his destiny and the phases of time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Go Nagai (永井豪) — Manga artist
- Period analysed
- 1945–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 戊寅 / Month 甲申 / Year 乙酉
- Void branches
- 申酉 (Monkey–Rooster)
- Destiny area
- 0.01 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 the structure of a single-generation fortune, with thin ties to both his parents and his family line. It is a vessel that starts something new within one lifetime, outside the family line.
- Between the self and society a force of breaking keeps arising, while the places of work and family bind tightly. The expression that breaks conventions and the power to keep bringing works into the world stand side by side in the same destiny.
- The star of conveying stands at his centre, at his place of return and in the blessing of his ancestors alike. The more he gives freely, conveys, and is understood, the more his fortune grows.
- The ten years from age twenty to twenty-nine are the period in which his own figures reach their peak. From his debut to Devilman and Mazinger Z, almost all of his major works were born in this decade.
- His sixties are the decade in which the same form as his birth day returns. His own figures reached a lifetime high, and a memorial museum opened in his hometown.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did his major works gather in the ten years of his twenties?
- What overlapped on 3 December 1972, the day Mazinger Z began?
- Where in his destiny did the author who drew both laughter and tragedy, robots and demons, come from?
- How did a single-generation fortune with thin family ties appear in his works?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1967 | 丁未 | Debuts with Meakashi Porikichi |
| 1968 | 戊申 (天) | Harenchi Gakuen begins in the first issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, a start in a void year that stirs wide public controversy |
| 1969 | 己酉 (天) | Founds Dynamic Production |
| 1972 | 壬子 | Devilman serialised and animated |
| 1972 | 壬子 | 3 December: TV anime Mazinger Z begins |
| 1973 | 癸丑 | TV anime Cutie Honey begins |
| 1974 | 甲寅 | Getter Robo, with Ken Ishikawa |
| 1980 | 庚申 (天) | Kodansha Manga Award for Susano Oh |
| 2009 | 己丑 | Go Nagai Memorial Museum opens in Wajima |
| 2018 | 戊戌 | Japan Cartoonists Association Award, Minister of Education Prize, for his complete works |
| 2019 | 己亥 | Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters |
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 double void of birth year and month
- Heaven-kill earth-clash and the near echo
- The chart of food and the threefold star of conveying
- The decade at the peak
- The decade echo
- The four layers of 3 December 1972
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii