is a Japanese
manga artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan.
Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...
known for his controversial political commentary manga ''
Gōmanism Sengen''.
Life
A student of
French literature
French literature () generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than Fr ...
from
Fukuoka University
Fukuoka University is a private research university located in Fukuoka, Japan.
The university has nine faculties with a total of around 20,000 students, 800 of whom are foreign. Its two campuses are in Nanakuma and Kitakyushu. Fukuoka Universit ...
, Kobayashi published his first manga, ''Tōdai Itchokusen'' (東大一直線, Beeline to
Tokyo U), in 1976 in ''
Weekly Shōnen Jump
is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many action scenes and a fair amount of comedy. The chapters of the series that run ...
'' while still in school. Another of his early series, , a
satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming ...
about a naughty rich boy in the heyday of
Japan's bubble economy, won the 1989
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan, Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being ...
for
children's manga
and refer to manga and anime directed towards children. These series are usually moralistic, often educating children about staying in the right path in life. Each chapter is usually a self-contained story.
History
''Kodomo'' manga started ...
.
Works
* ''Tōdai Itchokusen'' (東大一直線, Beeline to
Tokyo U) (1976)
* ''Obocchama-kun'' (おぼっちゃまくん, Little Princelling) (1986)
* ''
Gōmanism Sengen'' (ゴーマニズム宣言), vol 1-9
** ''Gōmanism Sengen Extra 1'' (ゴーマニズム宣言EXTRA 1)
** ''Gō-Gai!'' (ゴー外!, Gōmanism Supplement/Side Story)
** ''Gōmanism Sengen Sabetsu Ron Special'' (ゴーマニズム宣言差別論スペシャル, On Discrimination) (1995)
** ''Shin Gōmanism Sengen'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言) vol 1-14
** ''Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - Datsu Seigi Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL 脱正義論, On Escaping Correctness) (1996)
** ''
Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - Sensō Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL 戦争論, On War) (1998), volumes 1-3 (Vol 1: , Vol 2: , Vol 3: )
** ''Sabetsu Ron Special - Gōmanism Sengen'' (差別論スペシャル―ゴーマニズム宣言) (1998)
** ''Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - "Ko to Ōyake" Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL ｢個と公｣論, On the "Individual" and the "Public") (2000)
** ''
Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - Taiwan Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL 台湾論, On Taiwan) (2000)
** ''Gōmanism Sengen Special - Yoshirin Senki'' (ゴーマニズム宣言スペシャル よしりん戦記, Record of the Yoshirin War) (2003)
** ''Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - Okinawa Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL 沖縄論, On Okinawa) (2005)
** ''Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - Yasukuni Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL 靖國論, On
Yasukuni
is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those who died in service of Japan, from the Boshin War of 1868–1869, to the two Sino-Japanese Wars, 1894–1895 and 1937–1945 res ...
) (2005)
** ''Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special - Chōsen-teki Heiwa Ron'' (新・ゴーマニズム宣言SPECIAL 挑戦的平和論, A Defiant Discussion On Peace), vol 1-2
** ''Iwayuru A-kyū Sempan - Gōsen Special'' (いわゆるA級戦犯 ゴー宣SPECIAL, As Called A-class War Criminal)
* ''Honjitsu no Zatsudan'' (本日の雑談, Today's Chat)
References
* Howard F. French
Japan's Resurgent Far Right Tinkers With History New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
, 25 March 2001.
* Mark Winchester
Everything you know about Ainu is wrong: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s excursion into Ainu historiography ''The Asia-Pacific Journal'', Vol 9, Issue 22, No 1, 30 May 2011.
External links
*
Yoshinori Kobayashi manga at Media Arts Database
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Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture
Japanese monarchists
Japanese anti-communists
Nanjing Massacre deniers
Anti-Zionism in Japan
Aum Shinrikyo
Comfort women
People from Fukuoka
1953 births
Living people
Fukuoka University alumni