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Although it isn't well known, the famous opening scene of "My Neighbor Totoro," showing a bird's-eye view of a truck driving along a country lane, is actually an homage to the opening sequence of Chiba's "1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, Six." The "sick mother" storyline is also featured in both works. 5/5
This was what girls like Satonaka, sick of the tear-jerker stories of girls being separated from the mothers, had been waiting for. His work was wildly popular. His portrayal of girl heroines continued to evolve through such stories as "1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, Six," "Yuki's Sun," and "Island Girl." Unfortunately, he started doing more work in boys' magazines and less in girls' magazines. His last shōjo work was "TV Angel" (1968). 4/5
They drew their heroines with what I call "squirrel eyes." You could hardly see the whites of their eyes. They had big, black eyes, like cute little mammals. But starting with "The Ocean that Calls to Yuka" (1959), Chiba started drawing girls with intelligent, assertive eyes. They also behaved differently. They acted, rather than waiting for someone else to save them. 3/5
It's not surprising she would think that. Up until he finished "Mama's Violin" (his first lengthy serial), he drew the way the male editors told him to, but didn't like what he was making and decided to just draw them without obsessing over the gender of the protagonist or that of the reader. He drew girls as human beings, and girls loved it. In the late 1950s, the shōjo manga drawn by men portrayed the heroine as passive, sweet, and waiting for some guy to rescue her. 2/5
Manga artist CHIBA Tetsuya has passed. He was 89. I had the privilege of meeting him several times at manga-related gatherings, and he was a humble, funny guy. He's famous for such shōnen manga as ”Ashita no Joe" and "Ashita Tenki ni Naare," but his shōjo manga were groundbreaking and loved by girls back in the day. Before SATONAKA Machiko made her professional debut, she was convinced that no man could have written shōjo manga like that, and believed it was a woman using a man's pen name. 1/5
