The Flowers of Evil (惡の華) is one of the greatest #manga ever written. Its Author is Oshimi Shūzō (押見修造)
If Tezuka is the Bach of manga, Oshimi is its Chopin
"Les Fleurs du Mal" is an album of #Grundgestalt's that I dedicated to 惡の華's characters
@Eidon As someone who considers #comics and #manga as much closer to music than its supposed sibling #animation, I find your Bach/Chopin comparison very intriguing.
If you feel like it and find the time, I would be happy if you could elaborate.
@dirk With pleasure!
When I listen to Bach's Music, I listen to the music of the divine: its perfection sings the heavens. So it is Tezuka to me: stories that are epic and transcend the mortal sphere. Impossibly perfect. Godlike.
But when I listen to Chopin, I hear another perfection: one that sings of the men, their suffering, their mortality and their souls. I find living men and women in Chopin, their tears, their failures -- the quintessential human. That is Shūzō's perfection. He sings the man, the woman. He sings us, and he moves me to tears.
And yes, this second perfection is the one that resonates more with me.
@Eidon Well put, thank you very much!
This reminds me of #Tezuka‘s Star System, in which he used the same range of archetypal characters in different time periods or places.
In Phoenix (火の鳥), e.g., the characters transcend their individuality and (re-)appear millennia later, expressing a similar function or attitude
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This does bear semblance to Bach‘s mathematical approach, as Tezuka designs a very structured architecture of life itself.
Thank you for making that clear to me!
@Eidon The pleasure is mine!
And Robe of Feathers is amazing...
@dirk
Your reference to 火の鳥 is perfectly in line with the concept I was trying to express! There is in particular a Moment in 火の鳥, in which Tezuka focuses on Japanese Theater. That is another Example of the same concept to me! That is no more manga; it's no more theater, or literature. It's beyond. It's Tezuka. And yes, the archetypal characters, true...
Many thanks for connecting with me -- it's a pleasure!