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Leiji Matsumoto is one of Japan's most influential myth creators. Yet the huge scope of his work, spanning past, present and future in a constantly connecting multiverse, is largely unknown outside Japan. Matsumoto was the major creative force on Star Blazers, America's gateway drug for TV anime, and created Captain Harlock, a TV phenomenon in Europe. As well as space operas, he made manga on musicians from Bowie to Tchaikovsky, wrote the manga version of American cowboy show Laramie, and created dozens of girls' comics. He is a respected manga scholar, an expert on Japanese swords, a frustrated engineer and pilot who still wants to be a spaceman in his eighties.
This collection of new essays--the first book on Matsumoto in English--covers his seven decades of comic creation, drawing on contemporary scholarship, artistic practice and fan studies to map Matsumoto's vast universe. The contributors--artists, creators, translators and scholars--mirror the range of his work and experience. From the bildungsroman to the importance of textual analysis for costume and performance, from early days in poverty to honors around the world, this volume offers previously unexplored biographical and bibliographic detail from a life story as thrilling as anything he created.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Gilles Poitras
Preface
Darren-Jon Ashmore and Helen McCarthy
Glossary
Introduction
Darren-Jon Ashmore and Helen McCarthy
Leiji Matsumoto: A Life in Context
Helen McCarthy
Sailing a Sea of Stars: Growth and Change in Matsumoto's Space Opera
Darren-Jon Ashmore
Even Better Than the Real Thing: Matsumoto's Manga
Tim Eldred
The Cockpit and the Nobility of Failure
Jonathan Tarbox
Female in a Male Universe: Women in Matsumoto's Space Operas
Stefanie Thomas
The Impact of Matsumoto's Universe on Anime Magazines as a Platform for Cosplay
Edmund W. Hoff
A Captain's Tribute to Leiji Matsumoto: A Cosplay Project
Ondine Montoya and Matthew Montoya
Translating Leiji Matsumoto
Zack Davisson
Interview with Leiji Matsumoto
Darren-Jon Ashmore
General Bibliography and Weblinks
Appendix A: Matsumoto Animation
Appendix B: Matsumoto Comics and Graphic Works
Appendix C: Matsumoto Collaborations and Other Works
About the Contributors
Index
