Doron Chibimaru

I just bought his version of Last of the Mohicans so this should be interesting

How does he know it's horse poop and not just any other poop? hmm, hmm, hmm.

never thought old manga will be this absurd, i like it.

Hrm, somehow this feels like it not only was drawn by a child but written by one as well. The “plot”, the “dialogue”, the characters ... I mean who writes shoddy exposition like in c14p8? “This has been a small announcement”? Really?

 

Or was this just the sorry state that manga were in back in those days? I know that Western comics were ridiculous looking, too, at that time so is that all then?

Back then comic or manga is still something new, nobody have any established expectations over it so they have much more freedom compared to nowadays. Anything goes, as long as it's interesting that is.

You're using your modern mindset on what is thought as good and judging this old manga with it so definitely you will find it weird. To make it worse this is from Japanese when they're basically still having a rather isolated culture and there's a lot of obscure cultural references of that era.

Hrm, somehow this feels like it not only was drawn by a child but written by one as well. The “plot”, the “dialogue”, the characters ... I mean who writes shoddy exposition like in c14p8? “This has been a small announcement”? Really?

 

Or was this just the sorry state that manga were in back in those days? I know that Western comics were ridiculous looking, too, at that time so is that all then?

Shigeru often breaks the forth wall, so it's actually just being meta (along with the joke about Tezuka at the end). He's talking directly to the reader, in the vein of a PSA. That panel says お知らせしておきます ("This is a notice", but also an honorific tonal shift), so perhaps I should have localized it as "service announcement" instead of "a small announcement" to make it more clear.

Read more from the 50s though. It's all either text-heavy, or fluff. Doron Chibimaru is the latter, and the appeal is in the imaginative art, not the text. I just want to drum up interest in someone who's largely been forgotten in time.

Hrm, somehow this feels like it not only was drawn by a child but written by one as well. The “plot”, the “dialogue”, the characters ... I mean who writes shoddy exposition like in c14p8? “This has been a small announcement”? Really?

Or was this just the sorry state that manga were in back in those days? I know that Western comics were ridiculous looking, too, at that time so is that all then?

Maybe “crude” would have been the better term?

Whichever you feel is most appropriate.  XD  I had a long conversation about old manga yesterday and how standards were not at all what they were by even the 70s.  I get the feeling that the requirements to be a selling mangaka have been quite different from decade to decade!

 

Ugly? I thought it was kind of cute in a very old-timey way. But, I'm old and might see things differently. ;

Maybe “crude” would have been the better term?

Ugly? I thought it was kind of cute in a very old-timey way. But, I'm old and might see things differently. ;

They remind me of old Max Fleischer cartoons - incredibly inventive and imaginative, bordering and sometimes surpassing surreal. These are pre-Ozuka comics stylized in a way that's been lost in the decades since. I'm translating this slowly, unfortunately, (there are some cultural references that are largely nonsense, but new to me and thus slowing me down), but the next few stories will definitely showcase the author's skill.

Err, actually written in 1955.
Not sure why 1987 was picked up on, that's simply the publication date of the tankobon reprint.
This is old AND obscure.

Man, those drawings are hella ugly. Still kinda interesting though for some reason ...

Man, those drawings are hella ugly. Still kinda interesting though for some reason ...

This looks delightfully bizarre. Thanks for the translations.

Woah, this an antique artifact O.o

Err, actually written in 1955.

Not sure why 1987 was picked up on, that's simply the publication date of the tankobon reprint.

This is old AND obscure.

I was trusting MAL's data, which isn't the best idea sometimes.  Though, this manga-ka has been known to rework his manga and reissue the revised version decades later.  His Last of the Mohicans was published in both 1953 and again in '74, the latter version chosen for English publication. 

But I think we all agree it's old.

Well, it is from 1987.  And the manga-ka was born in 1909.  In a way, it is old as dirt.

Err, actually written in 1955.

Not sure why 1987 was picked up on, that's simply the publication date of the tankobon reprint.

This is old AND obscure.

>old as dirt artstyle

Well, it is from 1987.  And the manga-ka was born in 1909.  In a way, it is old as dirt.

This really felt like a manga written centuries ago, I'm interested too.

>old as dirt artstyle

>comedy dependent on one's understanding of the ninja ways

>group scanlating called crywanking

Great, followed.

>old as dirt artstyle

>comedy dependent on one's understanding of the ninja ways

>group scanlating called crywanking

Consider me unironically interested.