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  • Captain Tsubasa

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Kenneth M. Lin on Wed Jun 21 13:40:23 2017
    On 06/21/2017 12:56 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
    https://middle-edge.jp/articles/I0001245

    This manga from Shonen Jump was attributed to making soccer popular in
    1980s and many J-Leaguers grew up reading this manga.

    However, the author really had troubles drawing adults and the
    characters started to look weird and in wrong proportion once they
    reached high school. All the characters have tiny heads and disturbingly
    long limbs.

    Take a look.

    Ken

    You certainly have that correct, Looks like an early attempt at bishonen's tall and slender look. Maybe other folks took something from
    it.

    bliss

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  • From Kenneth M. Lin@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 21 12:56:30 2017
    https://middle-edge.jp/articles/I0001245

    This manga from Shonen Jump was attributed to making soccer popular in 1980s and many J-Leaguers grew up reading this manga.

    However, the author really had troubles drawing adults and the characters started to look weird and in wrong proportion once they reached high school. All the characters have tiny heads and disturbingly long limbs.

    Take a look.

    Ken

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  • From Kenneth M. Lin@21:1/5 to Kenneth M. Lin on Wed Jun 21 14:40:12 2017
    "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:oielcq$3m6$1@dont-email.me...

    On 06/21/2017 12:56 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
    https://middle-edge.jp/articles/I0001245

    This manga from Shonen Jump was attributed to making soccer popular in
    1980s and many J-Leaguers grew up reading this manga.

    However, the author really had troubles drawing adults and the characters started to look weird and in wrong proportion once they reached high
    school. All the characters have tiny heads and disturbingly long limbs.

    Take a look.

    Ken

    You certainly have that correct, Looks like an early attempt at
    bishonen's tall and slender look. Maybe other folks took something from
    it.

    bliss

    --
    bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com



    I read Captain Tsubasa in 1980s when the characters were in grade school. I recently came across recent iteration of the manga (it's still going on) and it looks like the children's heads were transplanted to some aliens's
    bodies.

    It makes me wonder if the editors would dare to make suggestions because the author is so popular.

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  • From Kenneth M. Lin@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 22 08:00:07 2017
    "Kenneth M. Lin" wrote in message news:oieiqg$qhf$1@dont-email.me...

    https://middle-edge.jp/articles/I0001245

    This manga from Shonen Jump was attributed to making soccer popular in 1980s and many J-Leaguers grew up reading this manga.

    However, the author really had troubles drawing adults and the characters started to look weird and in wrong proportion once they reached high school. All the characters have tiny heads and disturbingly long limbs.

    Take a look.

    Ken



    This is peculiar as when the series began, they had some adult characters (parents, coaches, refrees, ...) and they looked quite normal.

    One remark said that height-to-head ratio is now 16. 8 is excessive so the heads are drawn very small now. In some gag manga goes as low as 2 so the character's head is the same length as the body.

    And those giant baggy shorts!

    BTW, this is a really funny website that covers a lot of manga subjects. I started reading from the first post and I noticed a lot of "how was the
    final episode of such-and-such manga" posts. I am seeing a lot of stuff
    from 80s when I used to subscribe to Shonen Jump.

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  • From Kenneth M. Lin@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 22 09:07:21 2017
    "Kenneth M. Lin" wrote in message news:oieiqg$qhf$1@dont-email.me...

    https://middle-edge.jp/articles/I0001245

    This manga from Shonen Jump was attributed to making soccer popular in 1980s and many J-Leaguers grew up reading this manga.

    However, the author really had troubles drawing adults and the characters started to look weird and in wrong proportion once they reached high school. All the characters have tiny heads and disturbingly long limbs.

    Take a look.

    Ken



    Here's another page from the same website...

    https://middle-edge.jp/articles/I0001872

    Where it "Panasonic Newsroom Japan" is a portrait of a soccer player. From this drawing you can see that the author tends to draw the lower body really big, although feet are quite small. In this instances knees begin where the pants end so everything below is the lower legs that comprises almost half
    of the character's height.

    He's doing the same with the arms so upper arms are short but forearms are excessively elongated. It's almost as the author starts to draw normally
    but loses track of his perspective. This could be due to some vision
    problem.

    I read somewhere that the author of Fist of North Star has vision problems
    and he only on see with a foot in front of him. I am guessing that someone must be doing layouts for him so his figures are still proportional,
    although it's too bulky on upper bodies.

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