[ICON] Eico Hanamura - The Shojo Manga Artist Whose Works Cast a Spell Over the World（3/3）

If there is something you want to do, Do it and regret!

ab：What is you favorite comic?

Hanamura： In comics, I like “Hyakkiyakoushou” written by “Ichiko Ichi” the story of this book is very interesting which is about the other world and this world. Sometimes my favorite cartoonist change in me depends on my feelings.

ab：Did you have anybody who had you an effect?

Hanamura：In novel, a lot of novelists have influenced me so much for example, old novel for girls written by “Nobuko Yoshiya”. When I was little child, we still didn’t have any books because of the war of course, there was no books which is lovely. We just have kind of rough papers printing mimeograph drawn the girl who has red cheek and wearing the headband of the sun- flag. This kind of pictures was expressing militarism of Japan. I didn’t like this kind of pictures because most of these kinds of books are based on militarism. One of my friends who is older than me, she lent me lots of novels written by “Nobuko Yoshida” or “ Yasunari Kawabata” or “Junichi Nakahara”. And I liked the illustration of these books. They influenced me so much. We don’t see a lot of books at that time so I like making new original stories.

ab：What is your favorite motto?

Hanamura：Here is the proverb I love "If there is something you want to do, Do it and regret!"

I think we have to more respect our cultures.

ab：Please give the message youth who reads asian beat.

Hanamura：I guess the most of the Asian countries are going to develop right now, various kinds of cultures are going to come in Japan, while I think it’s very important to protect our own culture at the same time, we have to learn something great from other culture. Japanese tends to take care of their classical culture ;example “Kabuki” , however in architect of Japan, most of the Japanese designer have been turning the way to construct the buildings to the way of the western style. I think we have to more respect our cultures. Needles to say, the countries are recieving the way of the western culture, which are growing from now on and we should accept good point of other culture while we have to take care of our own culture.

Wherever we live, even in the forign countries, we have same feelings in any situation so I wish peolple in the world try to live in friendship more. and I want to tell them the Japanese have such great personality because they have so much humanity and their heart is so deep. I think Japanese ways would be a good model for people in forighn countries.

(collecting data：2010.10.25)

We found cartoon-style drawing at her atelier

There are so many manuscripts which she is writing now at her atelier

Yoshimi Kurata (Cartoon comic writter) gave her The cardboard of his own hndwriting.

There are so many stocks of datada with picture of town.

There are data of pictures from all over Japan.

We found many data of cars and ships was used in her comics.

Cushion and T-shirts like that novelty are very substantial.

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Eico Hanamura / cartoonist
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Adoring Junichi Nakahara, a distinguished illustrator in Japan and Yumeji Takehisa, a famous Japanese painter, Eico Hanamura entered an art school. She made her professional debut as a comic artist in 1959. In addition to having serial comic strips in girl’s cartoon books, her illustrations of cute girls were often on the covers of the appendixes in magazines and school notebooks. Thus her works ran in series and had a great vogue. her well known title, “A girl in the fog”（"La Fille dans la brume" in French）was broadcast on TV in 1975. Eico Hanamura covered famous movies, like “Forbidden Games” and the well known stories, like Kennedy assassination as well as many world literatures in the 60’s and 70’s. Her target gradually shifted from children to adults in step with the growth of her readers. She had serial comic strips in women's magazines from 1970, which opened up a new genre of the girls' comic. Eico Hanamura now covers mystery and suspense field based on original pieces of the big-name authors in Japan.
In honor of the 50th anniversary, she has been having various kinds of projects on TV, newspapers, radio, books and so forth since last year. A book about her delightful life style, " Hanamura's style: Happy Girl Forever." was published in this November 15th, 2010.

■Web Site
Official http://www.eico-hanamura.com
eico hanamura http://hanamuraeiko.moo.jp