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49-485: He is the founder of the manga studio Kurumada Productions or Kurumadapro for short. He achieved fame as the creator of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero , Fūma no Kojirō , Saint Seiya and B't X . The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and display courage through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the Best Success award with Saint Seiya and

98-481: A Saint Seiya Omega game for PSP was released in December 2012, and Saint Seiya: Brave Soldiers released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul released in 2015 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 and PC. Recently, Ring ni Kakero has also been the theme for Pachinko game machines, as well as Saint Seiya , on which a recently released pachinko machine is based. Saint Seiya Myth Cloth

147-526: A boxing match so he recruits Mick, leader of the Great Angels New York Branch (originally the Hells Angels in the manga), a deathrow inmate Monster Jail, Missie Charnel, a mysterious androgynous boy boxing champion known for his unhealthy obsession with his own beauty that knows no bounds (even in the ring) as well as that in which he savors reducing the "pretty" faces of any opponent he faces in

196-663: A canonical status in the universe of Saint Seiya , and it is also its legitimate continuation. He recently finished Ring ni Kakero 2 , in 2009, after a successful run of 9 years. A live-action series of Fūma no Kojirō was released on Japanese TV. He recently started working on a new manga series Raimei-ni Kike . He also has authorized two manga authors to write and draw sidestories for his manga Saint Seiya , specifically Saint Seiya Episode G , written and drawn by Megumu Okada, and Saint Seiya Lost Canvas , written and drawn by Shiori Teshirogi. Since these two works are not authored by Kurumada, but only authorized and supervised by him,

245-459: A different figure from Japanese history. On October 13, 2004, Shueisha suspended Motomiya's Kuni ga Moeru manga from Weekly Young Jump after 37 groups and more than 200 people complained about a photograph that was used in the series in mid-September. The original photo is purported to depict the Nanjing Massacre , but the uniform worn by the soldier does not match the time period, thus

294-472: A great impact on him since his youth. In 2010, Masami Kurumada was contacted by Warner Brothers to collaborate in a project for Leterrier's mythologically themed motion picture Clash of the Titans , remake of the original 1981 film. Kurumada authored promotional illustrations depicting pivotal scenes from the film. Countless are the products of merchandise(action figures, T-shirts, toys, video games, ect) relative

343-444: A much lesser role, but several ones with key roles can also be found, such as Rei Kojinyama ( Sukeban Arashi ), Kiku Takane ( Ring ni Kakero ) and Saori Kido ( Saint Seiya ). Kurumada has stated in interviews that he obtains some creative influence from yesterday's authors considered masters of the manga medium today, such as Hiroshi Motomiya , Sanpei Shirato and Mitsuteru Yokoyama . He specially considers that Motomiya's works had

392-458: A popular manga author, and lasted five years, and he considers it his favorite creation. A practicer of the martial arts in his younger days, the influence this has exerted on his various works is worthy of mention. Also, in the same manner as many manga artists today, Kurumada employs the revered Osamu Tezuka's Star System manga technique, which is essentially resorting to the use of a stable cast of characters in his various works (characters keep

441-593: A professional manga artist, and that same year two of his older and best known works experienced a resurfacing. The original Ring ni Kakero was adapted to anime, 27 years after its manga debut, and as mentioned before, the Saint Seiya anime adaptation was resumed in 2003 and an attempt to start the Zeus Chapter was made with the release of the Saint Seiya Tenkai-Hen Josō ~Overture~ movie in 2004, which

490-517: A sequel entitled Ring ni Kakero 2 was published in Shueisha's Super Jump , a seinen magazine. Ring ni Kakero 2 tells the story of Kiku and Jun's son, Rindo Kenzaki, who is raised by Katori Ishimatsu after losing both of his parents. The series ran on an irregular basis until 2008. Shueisha compiled the individual chapters into twenty-six tankōbon volumes published between July 9, 2000 and February 9, 2009. A video game titled Ring ni Kakero

539-602: A strong fighter), Takeshi Kawai (who specializes in the upper jab technique; he is also a pianist and also likes to cheat) and Kazuki Shinatora (who specializes in the Rolling Thunder technique; he is a former kendo practitioner, who retired when he challenged his father due to his cruel training). Later on, the Jr. Japan team facing Blackshaft's team was adapted into an anime. Ryuji, Jun, Katori, Kazuki, and Takeshi represented Japan. Blackshaft had no intention of taking Japan seriously in

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588-462: A very strong impact and influence on him. Kurumada also draws inspiration from universal knowledge and folklore, such as Greek mythology, Japanese and Chinese mythology, Buddhist and Hinduist doctrine, Trascendental philosophies, and classic works of literature, such as Dante Alighieri 's The Divine Comedy , and Outlaws of the Marsh , to name a few. His interest in boxing, wrestling and martial arts

637-756: Is a group of manga artists, founded by Motomiya. They are best known in the West for the Strider Hiryu manga (published by Kadokawa Shoten ), which was developed as a tie-in to Capcom 's video game hit Strider . The group had input in Strider 2 's character designs , and the original manga's plot was adapted as the plot of the NES version . However, Strider was not the only Moto Kikaku property to be adapted. Capcom based four games on Motomiya's Tenchi wo Kurau series: Destiny of an Emperor and Destiny of an Emperor II for

686-445: Is a successful line of figures that started in 2003 and is still in production based on the many characters of the original Saint Seiya by Kurumada. Currently, Kurumada working on Saint Seiya Next Dimension (a prequel and continuation to his classic manga series in which Hades recalls his fight with the previous Pegasus Saint in the 18th century). It was revealed by Kurumada and Akita Shōten that Saint Seiya Next Dimension holds

735-707: Is collected in 28 volumes to date, and has been resumed by Kurumada with Saint Seiya Next Dimension , the continuation to his original manga, ending the hiatus the work remained in since 1991, and to date adds thirteen more volumes to the original Saint Seiya manga, for a total or 41 volumes. The third longest is B't X , collected in 16. As stated before, Anime adaptations have been made for Saint Seiya , Fūma no Kojirō , B't X , and Ring ni Kakero , all closely follow his source manga works. Saint Seiya videogames have been released for old consoles such as Famicom/NES , Game Boy and more recently various video games for PlayStation 2 (2006-2008) and for PlayStation 3 (2011), and

784-697: Is evident when comparing older works to more recent ones. His coloring style is almost exclusively realistic, unlike the vast majority of manga artists, who often resort to the use of non-natural colors for the hair or eyes of their characters, although with the publication of Saint Seiya Next Dimension volumes totally in color, the addition of new characters with non-natural hair colors occurs often. Certain graphics elements characteristic of his style can be found all over his works, mostly during fight sequences, having become widely known. Fans have created terms to refer to them such as Kurumada-ochi ( 車田落ち , Kurumada-ochi ) , meaning "Kurumada Fall", which designates

833-849: Is one of Weekly Shōnen Jump ' s best-selling manga series of all time, with over 13 million copies sold. Hiroshi Motomiya Hiroshi Motomiya ( 本宮 ひろ志 , born June 25, 1947) is a Japanese manga artist from Chiba Prefecture . His works include Tenchi wo Kurau (1983–1984) and Salary Man Kintaro (1994–2002). Motomiya's Ore no Sora ran in Shueisha 's Weekly Playboy from 1975–1978. It has spawned several sequel series and adaptations. He serialized Otokogi in Shogakukan 's Big Comic from 1979 to 1980. It also spawned several sequel manga and adaptations. Motomiya serialized Takeki Ōgon no Kuni in Shueisha's Business Jump from 1990 to 1992. It has spawned several sequels, each following

882-480: Is set to continue doing so in the next instalments of that work in the japanese summer in 2013. Kurumada's works have had influence on manga authors and related media. Worthy of mention is Yudetamago 's Kinnikuman , Hiroshi Kawamoto 's Tenkū Senki Shurato , Clamp 's Magic Knight Rayearth , Kōichi Tokita 's Mobile Fighter G Gundam , Hajime Yatate and Ryuichi Hoshino 's Yoroiden Samurai Troopers , Yoshihiro Togashi 's YuYu Hakusho , videogames such as

931-553: Is started to be created by Toei Animation and Netflix, is published worldwide on the same platform. The series is made in CGI. A live action film based on the original Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada has been announced. However, the release date have not been revealed. Chinese Tencent has announced that it will produce live-action series TV of Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada, the release date it has not been made known. June 2019 in Taiwan there

980-522: Is the finalist in a local youth championship and had to compete against Kenzaki, the latter winning after an almost tie and K.O. one-to-one fight. Afterward, most of the series tells about Ryuuji being the successor of Kenzaki (as the latter was terribly injured and almost crippled), who competes in the Japan National Boxing Championship, where he encounters strong and deadly opponents, including Ishimatsu Katori (a comic relief, but also

1029-504: Is well known, and he maintains close relations with renowned personalities of those circles. As he states in his website, he likes to drink with friends and to practice photography while jogging. Among his works that have been cancelled due to failing to attract fans: Otoko Zaka, Silent Knight Shō and Aoi Tori no Shinwa . His works that suffered popularity decrease: B't X (which he successfully concluded without facing cancellation), and Saint Seiya . In Saint Seiya ' s case, Kurumada

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1078-425: Is written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada . The series was published in Shueisha 's Weekly Shōnen Jump between January 10, 1977 and October 12, 1981. Shueisha compiled the individual chapters into twenty-five tankōbon volumes published between January 31, 1978 and January 15, 1983. The series was re-released into a 18-volume deluxe edition published between September 9, 2001 and May 6, 2002. In 2000,

1127-524: The World Heroes series and The King of Fighters series, among others. References to his works by other authors can be found in the mentioned videogames and in popular manga, such as Kōsuke Fujishima 's Aa! Megami-sama , Kenjirō Hata 's Hayate no Gotoku , Chika Umino 's Honey & Clover , Tite Kubo 's BLEACH , and their respective anime adaptations, among others. French director Louis Leterrier has cited Kurumada and his manga Saint Seiya having

1176-552: The Saint Seiya manga, two commemorative exhibitions were held in Tokyo and Hong Kong in which numerous commemorative merchandising products related to Saint Seiya were also sold. For the 2017 season, Masami Kurumada has designed and collaborated on the Japanese baseball team shirt 広島東洋カープ "Hiroshima Toyo carp" In 2019, a new animated adaptation of Kurumada's original Saint Seiya manga,

1225-511: The Best Inspiration award with Ring ni Kakero . Kurumada's first work was Otoko Raku , which earned him an award in a manga contest for aspiring manga artist, and became assistant to professional manga artists. Some time later, he debuted as a professional manga artist in 1974 with his manga Sukeban Arashi , and achieved his first hit three years later when he started writing and drawing Ring ni Kakero , which brought him recognition as

1274-559: The CD is called Kurumada: The Complete Works . The following songs are included: After the CD was released Kurumada wrote the lyrics to the intro and ending song of the credits sequence of the 'Inferno' stage of the Hades arc of the Saint Seiya anime adaptation (Episodes 128 to 145). Also, he wrote the lyrics to the ending theme of the second season of the Ring ni Kakero 1 anime adaptation, in 2006: For

1323-587: The CD: Ring ni Kakero Ring ni Kakero ( Japanese : リングにかけろ , Hepburn : Ringu ni Kakero , lit. "Put It All in the Ring") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada . It was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump between January 1977 and October 1981. The individual chapters were compiled by Shueisha into twenty-five tankōbon volumes. A sequel entitled Ring ni Kakero 2

1372-671: The current ones have been published by that company to date, excluding Saint Seiya Lost Canvas , published by Akita Shoten in the Weekly Shōnen Champion manga magazine, Saint Seiya Next Dimension , published in the Shōnen Ace manga magazine and Raimei-ni Kike , published by Akita Shoten in the Champion Red manga magazine. In 2012, Kurumada revealed the upcoming anime television series, Saint Seiya Omega . Described as an anime original story, separate from Kurumada's canon,

1421-486: The events depicted in them and the characters created for them are still considered non-canonical, unlike Next Dimension which holds an official canonical status. Kurumada had most of his works published by Shueisha , in the prestigious Shūkan Shōnen Jump manga magazine. He began publishing his works with Kadokawa Shoten , in their magazine Gekkan Shōnen Ace . In 1995 he resumed his relations with Shueisha and began publishing with them again, and his latest works and

1470-583: The final episodes that completed the adaptation of the Hades arc of his Saint Seiya manga to anime, a new song for the credits roll was composed with Kurumada authoring the lyrics. The episodes aired in mid 2008. Also, Kurumada had a short role as a voice actor in the anime adaptation of his manga Ring ni Kakero . He appeared in the first episode, as himself and as the Jitsuroku! Shinwakai protagonist, who shares his name, and he provided his voice to both. Continuing his contributions as lyricist, Kurumada wrote

1519-414: The life of a young boxer named Ryuuji Takane and his sister Kiku, who is his coach. Ryuuji and his sister both inherited their father's talent for boxing with Ryuuji inheriting his strength and techniques while Kiku picked up his talent for analysis and strategy. In the past, their father was a famous boxer. Ryuuji and Kiku went away from home to train and become famous in order to help their lonely mother. On

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1568-428: The long-time tradition of popular manga having an animated adaptation. His drawing style is very classic, reminiscent from the manga/anime aesthetics more predominant in the 1960s and 1970s, albeit a constant flaw in his art is an inconsistent trace and proportion unbalance. He often draws his characters as if seen from a low perspective. His drawings can sometimes seem rough, but the improvement in his artistic technique

1617-500: The lyrics to the ending theme of the first and second season of the Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas anime: Additionally, the release of a new CD containing the rest of songs with lyrics authored by Kurumada for the anime adaptations of his works Saint Seiya and Ring ni Kakero , is set for 2013. The compilation is titled "Kurumada: The Complete Works 2" and includes some previously released material. The songs included in

1666-479: The master Tezuka's technique include legendary authors Leiji Matsumoto , Monkey Punch and Shōtarō Ishinomori or Clamp . Clamp was heavily influenced by Kurumada's works, and they began their career as manga authors creating doujinshi based on Kurumada's characters. It is also known that anime adaptations aren't much to his liking, he prefers manga. He agreed that his works Fūma no Kojirō , Saint Seiya , Ring ni Kakero and B't X were adapted to anime, to follow

1715-613: The photo has not been accurately verified. Motomiya drew it to have the accurate uniform, leading to complaints of misrepresenting history. The manga was suspended for five issues before resuming serialization. Shueisha censored the tankōbon edition of Kuni ga Moeru , by editing or removing 21 pages. Motomiya began Nisemono? in July 2007 for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. It was serialized on their Japanese website and aimed to help men who suffer from erectile dysfunction . Katsu Fūtarō!!

1764-426: The ring into mush, along with hypnotic powers that he casts upon his opponents to leave them as sitting ducks for his attacks and high-speed punches and fancy footwork, and N.B. Forrest, also known as the emperor of the south and a Ku Klux Klan member (in the manga). The second season ends with The Shadow clan, formed by a boxer who used the sweet science as an assassination art, aiming after Team Japan. Ring ni Kakero

1813-667: The same appearance and personality, but sometimes the author gives them new names and different roles than in previous works). Because of this, the main characters of his works most of the time bear a resemblance to Takane Ryūji, the protagonist of Ring ni Kakero . The main characters of his subsequent works have almost the same appearance and personality of Ryūji, specifically Jingi Kikukawa ( Otoko Zaka ), Kojirō ( Fūma no Kojirō ), Seiya ( Saint Seiya ), Teppei Takamiya ( B't X ), Shō ( Silent Knight Shō ), Aoi Tendō ( Aoi Tori no Shinwa ), Rindō Kenzaki ( Ring ni Kakero 2 ), among others. Besides Kurumada, other renowned manga artists that resort to

1862-549: The series will take place 25 years after the events in Kurumada's Saint Seiya manga. The series began airing in April that year, and has been renewed for a second season that started in April 2013. In 2014 Masami Kurumada was the executive producer of a CGI remake of the Sanctuary chapter called Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary . In 2016, marking 30 years since the original release of

1911-428: The time, the anime was titled Ring ni Kakero 1 to distinguish it from the more current manga (the original manga was later republished under the anime title). A total of 36 episodes divided into four seasons were made, published in format DVD for the world market. A fifth season was planned but was canceled due to the death of the series character designer and animation director Shingo Araki in 2011. Ring ni Kakero

1960-445: The typical head-first falling characters, and Kurumada-futtobi ( 車田吹っ飛び , Kurumada-futtobi ) , meaning "Kurumada Launch", which refers to characters that are projected high into the air by opponents, to name a few. Recurrent themes in his works are friendship, courage, redemption and sacrifice. Masculine virtue and qualities, honesty and honor are also traits often found in his characters. Female characters in his works mostly play

2009-478: The way to stardom, they have to defeat the strongest challengers all over the world. In Ring ni Kakero 1 , the characters are briefly introduced, telling the story from the moment Ryuuji and Jun Kenzaki (his eternal challenger and supposedly best friend) fight for the National Boxing Title and having both achieved stardom. Ryuuji's sister then tells the story from the beginning which starts from when Ryuuji

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2058-479: The works of Kurumada, sold all over the worlds with great success. His fans are usually referred to as "Masamists". His manga works listed chronologically and their duration: Out of all of them, Saint Seiya is his most famous work in the western world but not in Japan, its popularity there is surpassed by that of Ring ni Kakero (1 and 2), which is the longest of Kurumada's works, at 51 collected volumes. Saint Seiya ,

2107-415: Was an exhibition on the works of the master Masami Kurumada, with very many drawings drawn from his works and also various armor taken from his Saint Seiya manga, all reconstructed in natural scale on a 1: 1 scale. Masami Kurumada wrote the lyrics to many of the songs used in the anime adaptations of his manga series. A CD compiling the songs was released in December 2005 with an extra song to Otoko Zaka ,

2156-458: Was forced by Shueisha , his publisher, to finish the manga after the Hades Arc, in 1991. He put his manga in hiatus after he finished the mentioned arc, and resumed it in 2006 with Saint Seiya Next Dimension . The anime adaptation of Saint Seiya experienced a popularity decrease during the anime-only Asgard arc, while the popularity of the original manga was still strong; the anime back in 1989,

2205-481: Was in pre-production of the episodes that would adapt the Hades arc of the manga. Because of low popularity of the anime adaptation, the project was suspended and remained so until 2003, when it was resumed and the Hades arc of the manga finally was adapted to animation. The episodes that adapted the two final volumes of the manga were aired in between May and August 2008, finally leaving Kurumada's manga completely adapted to anime. In 2004, Kurumada celebrated 30 years as

2254-479: Was planned to continue the story with the subsequent release of OVAs, but due to discrepancies between Kurumada and Toei Animation, the project failed and was abandoned. Kurumada still plans to publish the "Zeus Chapter", written and drawn by him, in manga form in the near future, by 2012, a considerable amount of elements from it have already been revealed by Kurumada in Saint Seiya Next Dimension and he

2303-523: Was released for the Super Famicom . It was available to download to writable Nintendo Power cartridges on June 1, 1998. 27 years after the first chapter debuted, the manga was finally adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation. The series premiered October 6, 2004 and was broadcast on TV Asahi. It covered the first story arc of the manga. Since Ring ni Kakero 2 was being serialized in Super Jump at

2352-513: Was serialized in Super Jump between 2000 and 2008. An anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation premiered in October 2004. It was followed by a second season premiered in April 2006, a third season in April 2010 and a fourth season in April 2011. Ring ni Kakero is one of Weekly Shōnen Jump ' s best-selling manga series, with over 13   million copies sold. The story centers around

2401-687: Was serialized in Shueisha's Grand Jump from 2013 to 2016. In 2017, Motomiya launched Kōun Ryūsui in the same magazine. It follows Chinese explorer Xu Fu , who travels to Japan seeking the elixir of eternal life. He launched Good Job , a collaboration with Hiroshi Takano, in Weekly Young Jump the following year. It ran until July 2020. Motomiya briefly serialized Umi o Wataru be in Grand Jump for four months in 2020. The artist then serialized Boku, Imasu yo. in Weekly Young Jump from 2020 until 2021. Moto Kikaku (formerly Motomiya Kikaku )

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