Creator of characters who have marked Japanese youth in the late 1960s, he formed with his comprehension Hiroshi Fujimoto a successful duo. He died on April 7, at the age of 88.
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The disappearance of Fujiko Fujio mangaka leaves orphans of the characters who have marked the Japanese youth since the late 1960s. The author of the huge success Ninja Hattori-Kun (“Ninja Hattori-Kun”) or Kaibutsu -Kun and Warau Serusuman (“The Commercial Laughing”), died on Thursday, April 7 at his home Kawasaki, near Tokyo, at the age of 88 years.
From his real name Motoo Abiko, Fujiko Fujio was born on March 10, 1934 in Himi, a small port of the Toyama department in the center of Japan. He is the senior son of a temple of Zen Buddhism, that his family left after his father’s death. He was then in primary. “It’s the death of my father who has changed my life most. If he was not dead, I think I would have become a monk,” he said daily Asahi in 2020.
The orientation towards the craft of Mangaka stems from his meeting on the schools of the school with Hiroshi Fujimoto (1933-1996). Influenced by the works of Osamu TEZUKA (1928-1989), including Shin Takarajima (“The New Treasure Island”, inspired by Robert-Louis Stevenson’s work), the two compears get their first publication in the Journal Mainichi schoolchildren, while they are still high school students. After high school, they continue their activities while working. Motoo Abiko gets a job in the Toyama newspaper, the local daily.
mischievous ghost
Finally choosing to fully engage in manga, the duo settles in Tokyo in 1954 and takes the name of Fujiko Fujio. The two authors are among the young artists hosted in one of the Tokiwa-SO rooms, a small wooden building resisted the bombing of the capital during the Second World War. The unanounted housing, with collective toilet, is offered to the two comments by Osamu Tezuka, who had appreciated a few years earlier one of their first works, Ben-Hur. The building is home to a flop of young mangakas. With authors like Hiroo Terada, creator of several series around the sport, they form the “party of the new manga” which aims to create the “ideal manga”.
The duo knows success with its series “Obake No Q-Taro”, telling the pranks of a mischievous ghost. Work in common or solitary, both are needed in manga and animation. Motoo Abiko becomes a known face of television, where it appears permanent smoked glasses, the reflection of the light on the white paper having damaged its view.
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