Visit of Renowned animator and manga artist Go Nagai on 7-8 October 2009



Photo by Mr. Hisashi MARUYAMA 
Quick glance at the visit

 

 
Grendizer
Maginger Z
Shin Maginger
(c) Go NAGAI
Renewed Japanese Manga artist Mr. Go Nagai visited Jordan for two days on 7 and 8 October 2009. He held lectures for students and Jordanian artists and the public and screened his most famous anime.

The two-day visit, organized by Aranim Media Factory, the Japan Foundation, and the Embassy of Japan, with the support of The Royal Film Commission, and Princess Sumaya University for Technology, includde a day-two lecture on anime along with screening of the Mr. Nagai's most famous anime in the Middle East. This project is the second of its kind in Jordan by Japan. In 2008 one of the most successful Japanese visual artists, director Shinaki visited Jordan and held a two week visit to Jordan and held a workshop, screening and several talks.

Go Nagai
 

Go Nagai is a Japanese manga artist, particularly prolific in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. He was born on September 6, 1945, in Wajima (Ishikawa Prefecture), but was raised in Tōkyō.

 

He made his debut in 1968 with the short story “Meakashi porikichi” (Polikichi the Detective) in “Bokura” magazine (published by Kōdansha), and soon became a top hit manga artist. In 1969 he established Dynamic Productions, as a managing company also involved in planning and ideating new projects for animation, live action movies and other genres.

 

In 1972 he released the first adventure of “Mazinger Z” in “Weekly Shōnen Jump”. It was the first giant robot controlled by a man sitting inside its body, thus creating the prolific robot genre which is still today the trademark of Japanese animation.

 

The robot saga continued with “Great Mazinger” and “UFO Robot Grendizer”, while successful spin-offs such as “Getter Robot” and “Steel Armor Jeeg” were created by him and drawn by his colleagues at Dynamic Productions.

 

In 1980, he was awarded the 4th Kodansha Manga Award for the Sci-Fi manga “Susano-oh”.

 

His animated works have been the first Japanese TV shows to be broadcast in many foreign countries, with “Mazinger Z” becoming a hit in Asia, Spain, South America and North Africa and “Grendizer” in Canada, France, Italy, Russia and the Middle East. He is currently working at a new chapter of his robot tale, titled “Mazinsaga”.



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