Baron Yoshimoto at Lucca Comics & Games: “Observing humanity to tell its stories”
Baron Yoshimoto arrives at Lucca Comics & Games 2024 directly from Japan, with a cowboy shirt and an impeccable hairdo. Ha 83 years old and it doesn’t show them. He debuted in the world of manga in 1959, and immediately became one of the most influential representatives of the genre gekiga: comics that were instead […]
A woman in the world of baseball: Mizushima Shinji, the mangaka who defied the gender barrier
“On the pitch, I will be treated like any male player” Today in 2022, there are still no female players in either of the two professional baseball leagues in Japan. But in the world of fiction, the first player already emerged on the score sheet in the 1970s. It is Mizuhara Yûki, one of the […]
Sport, luxury, video games… How manga irrigates lucrative and influential sectors
On an artistic level, the manga has followed the same path as many other sectors of pop culture: its characters, its color codes and its universe have penetrated other areas, such as rap, cinema or series. But, on a societal and strategic level, by becoming a key component of Asian soft power, this cultural industry […]