Takeda Shingen (YOKOYAMA Mitsuteru)

 

I see what you did there.

I enjoy this author's work--it is often somewhat textbook-y, but that gives it some realism. Well, despite the "same face". It's a charming style but darn it, that is confusing. I'm sleepy and starting chapter 43 with my mind working on something. I wonder if that talk of "wavering in the wicked wind" and muttering being lost on the spring breeze has anything to do with a possible alternative reading of Harunobu? Could the name also be read as "spring's breeze"? I read a lot of classical poetry and this sort of thing is common in it.

Wow... He did all those... I've read Date Masamune, Sangokushi and Genghis Khan and am currently reading this (Takeda Shingen) and Shiji. Man.... Someone should scanlate the others too.... There should be a manga on Uesugi Kenshin and Taira no Masakado too... Fan of these two samurais... Mangaka's focus too much on Oda Nobunaga in my opinion... Not that I'm complaining!! I find Oda Nobunaga to be so similar to Cao Cao in many respects, and MengDe is one of my favourite historical characters....

 

So, the funny thing is that the Cao-Oda parallels are a modern invention perpetuated by 20th-century authors like, well, Yokoyama-sensei. In truth, no part of their histories matched other than that both started their rise to power by supporting pretenders to the national throne. Even then, Oda supported the Ashikaga Shogun instead of the real emperor. Past this point, there was no similarity in their history, personality, policy, or fate. Oda Nobunaga was a modernizing force who openly adopted foreign ideas and technology while Cao Mengde was an ultranationalistic legalist who specifically fought to maintain the Han cultural dominance over China proper. Before the 20th century and the need to revitalize Nobunaga's reputation (due in no small part to Meiji Japan's modernization drive) Japanese historians tended to compare Oda Nobunaga to the tyrant Dong Zhuo.

Sadly, the great mangaka Yokoyama Mitsuteru died in 2004. He never did a manga on Uesugi Kenshin, but aside from Date Masamune and this one, he did make manga adaptations of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsudaira Tadateru (Masamune's son-in-law), and strangely enough, Genghis Khan. 

 

Yokoyama-sensei practically created my childhood, because I grew up watching Babel ni-sei, Ninja Akakage, Tetsujin-28, Giant Robo, and Daimos - all his creations. He was a giant of giants, matched only by the likes of Osamu Tezuka and Go Nagai. This was the man who had created both the giant robot and ninja genres and adapted San Guo Yan Yi (Three Kingdoms) into manga form to boot! If not for him and all the giant robots he made I would probably have ended up as an accountant rather than an engineer. 

 

Wow... He did all those... I've read Date Masamune, Sangokushi and Genghis Khan and am currently reading this (Takeda Shingen) and Shiji. Man.... Someone should scanlate the others too.... There should be a manga on Uesugi Kenshin and Taira no Masakado too... Fan of these two samurais... Mangaka's focus too much on Oda Nobunaga in my opinion... Not that I'm complaining!! I find Oda Nobunaga to be so similar to Cao Cao in many respects, and MengDe is one of my favourite historical characters....

Wish the table of contents doesnt contain so much spoiler..

The two grater lords of sengoku era.. an intersting story, thanks for the update.

Thanks for the update. Interested to see where this one goes.

Hrm, not such a wise man after all, now was he?

Awww, how tragic :<

He's married to a murderous harridan and he STILL loves her? The man is a goddamned saint!

http://samuraidvd.com/takeda-shingen/

It's an early 90s TV movie with Koji Yakusho portraying Shingen.

 

Thanks!

I've been meaning to ask - what's the ending credits pic from? Looks like an old jidaegeki.

http://samuraidvd.com/takeda-shingen/

It's an early 90s TV movie with Koji Yakusho portraying Shingen.

I've been meaning to ask - what's the ending credits pic from? Looks like an old jidaegeki.

A threefold hip-hip-hoorah for HnG and Happy Scans!

An updaaaaaaate!!!!

So is this gonna get continued or what?

Hang on - I thought Daimos was designed by Yuki Hijiri, the same guy who did Voltes V.

You're actually both right; Yuki Hijiri was credited as the character designer for Tosho Daimos, and Yokoyama Mitsuteru wrote a separate manga called Daimos, and the two are entirely unrelated save for the fact that both contain giant robots. Yokoyama's Daimos is actually a lot lesser-known than his other works because it was published in one of Shogakukan's elementary school magazines and not one of the big shonen magazines like Sunday or Champion.

Hang on - I thought Daimos was designed by Yuki Hijiri, the same guy who did Voltes V.

Interesting.

Ouch I didn't know... I'm sorry to hear this ><. But now I know what else he did I will busily watch/read them also. Thank you for informing me.

Sadly, the great mangaka Yokoyama Mitsuteru died in 2004. He never did a manga on Uesugi Kenshin, but aside from Date Masamune and this one, he did make manga adaptations of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsudaira Tadateru (Masamune's son-in-law), and strangely enough, Genghis Khan. 

 

Yokoyama-sensei practically created my childhood, because I grew up watching Babel ni-sei, Ninja Akakage, Tetsujin-28, Giant Robo, and Daimos - all his creations. He was a giant of giants, matched only by the likes of Osamu Tezuka and Go Nagai. This was the man who had created both the giant robot and ninja genres and adapted San Guo Yan Yi (Three Kingdoms) into manga form to boot! If not for him and all the giant robots he made I would probably have ended up as an accountant rather than an engineer. 

Heck yea... I hope this guy does the uesugi next too