It dates back to 1975, the first edition of Kotetsu Jeeg, known to us as Jeeg Steel . While the movies rages a surprising cinecomic Italian who runs the false line, comes a new edition of the original manga by adding study tables on
Now it too will stand by calling Jeeg , but where the childhood of those generations that between kindergarten and elementary school, at the dawn of the eighties, waiting with grandparents or babysitter comes and how does this robot that marked the returning from work of parents unknowingly only increased the audience of regional private networks cultivating a fictional sci-tech? And above all, who was his visionary author? No, because to imagine 40 years ago a story like that of Hiroshi Shiba and his father, sublimated scientist in a computer to protect Earth from an ancient civilization buried in the depths of Japan must not be easy. Or granted as we are accustomed to think of so many new books and do not, in some chew more or less evidently ideas already published.
The master and inventor of the mecha, subgenre of manga, you Go Nagai . In addition to having written Jeeg is the author of Mazinger-Z , The Great Mazinger , Goldrake , Getta robot , Devilman and a long list of other mecha , or rather, gigantic heroes or tall robot like palaces that defend the world, armed or bare hands , by shadowy invaders. Most of the time, if you will pardon the Calambour, possessed invaders. The protagonists are indomitable characters, sometimes a bit ‘problematic that Nagai irrigates the Bushido code, the moral proof of the ancient samurai warriors. Originally all on paper, Italy became the first seguitissimi cartoons and only many years later were rediscovered as comics, manga indeed. In the case of Jeeg the first Italian version of 2002 was organized by the Dynamic Italy . After several years in the comics and reprints back in a casket in 2 books of 200 pages each, by the Pop-J , manga label Edizioni BD . Output enriched by a large number of study drafts on the creation of the characters to summarize the work of Tatsuya Yasuda , graphic designer and manga artist in the 75 ‘, and board in ’79.
Hiroshi is a motor racing champion who is riddled with Yamatai soldiers, an ancient dynasty with extraordinary powers, but his new life will transform it into Jeeg. For thousands of years embedded in the bowels of the earth, this civilization emerges following the discovery of a bell by inlaid magic of stories lost as a trolling column. For the Queen Himiko, eager to regain the world, Nagai fell back on Himiko, priestess really existed in the third century A.D. the head of the United Yamatai , an ancient Japanese region. archaeological references the aesthetics of soldiers and utensils of the time are obvious for the Japanese, but almost invisible to the West. Suffice it to say that the soldiers look faithfully reproduces statues, bells and artifacts of the time.
For us maybe snapped the eroistico element. So much so that in hindsight the Nagai himself is to robottoni as Stan Lee is to Marvel superheroes . Or maybe in some substratum of our culture they resided, silent, shreds of superman nietzchiano toned in Pop of those years coincided with the change of electronic technologies. Or even fine particles of dictatorships and Roman and European empires decayed could bringing us into the synapses especially prone to adventures to “hammer drilling” of this steel giant placed instead on the good side. Then it was not even the biggest of the infamous techno-robots family. With its 10 meters Jeeg remained the less high, though remembered as one of the most powerful.
Hiroshi not piloted nothing but cyborgs and became head of an almost organic robot composed of magnetic parts . Tip from merchandising, for which you would be marketed Nippon Magnetic toys, novelty to ride in the late ’70s. Think that faith in science and the younger generations are solid in the poetic ideals of Nagai. That evil is from the past? Meanwhile, today the future before us again an old classic manga. Then we’ll see.
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