Tag: Autobiography

1984 Manga Reveals Trials and Tribulations of Young Hideaki Anno

Hideaki Anno: the legendary animator and director of megahits Neon Genesis Evangelion and Shin Godzilla is, ostensibly, living pretty well these days. But that wasn’t always the case. In the wake of Shin Godzilla ’s success, a short autobiographical manga written by Anno in 1984 …Read more »

Go Nagai Rocket Punching A New Manga Into Existence July 4

June 30, 2014

Jason Moses

Cutie Honey creator Go Nagai is starting a new manga series next week in the pages of Weekly Manga Goraku magazine, and it’s autobiographical. Well, sort of. Nagai wrote a manga series called Gekiman a few years ago that told the story of how he …Read more »