She said if you enter this competition you'd win. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was drawing shoujo manga. And my girlfriend at the time was drawing something. After I failed my college entrance exam, I started looking for a job. It wasn't because I was really interested in manga though. To celebrate its upcoming release, we're proud to present an excerpt from an interview conducted in 2013 with Cobra mangaka Buichi Terasawa. Based on the best-selling manga, the series follows the notorious space pirate Cobra, who battles it out with the Pirate Guild by day and saves sultry sirens of space by night. This spring, Nozomi Entertainment will be releasing the classic science fiction TV series Space Adventure Cobra. Besson is reputedly a fan of Terasawa's work, partially due to the enormous popularity of Space Cobra in France.Interview With Space Adventure Cobra Creator Buichi Terasawa Whilst in Japan promoting the 5th Element, Luc Besson met with Terasawa to discuss the current state of Sci-Fi Representative works include a CD-ROM format work for use with a PC, 'COBRA II, A Man of Legend' and original animation videos such as 'GOKU', 'GOKU II', ' Raven Tengu Kabuto' and others.Īt the present time, annual sales of his full-length comic books exceed 20 million copies.īuichi Terasawa's works are translated and published in more than ten countries and are featured in comics and animation-related gatherings and exhibitions around the world. His works include original works, scenarios and works he has directed. Next came 'COBRA', 'BAT' and 'GUNDRAGON SIGMA' (In this latter series, only the main character is drawn by hand) and several other works.Įven at the present time, when comic books produced with the use of computer graphics have become common, there are very few artists that can come close to matching his ideas and quality. In the ensuing years, in parallel with advances in the personal computer, he created 'TAKERU' (1992), the world's first computer graphics comic book series.

In 1985, he kicked off an eight-color comic book series called 'BAT'. In 1977, he began drawing for the Japanese weekly manga publication ' Shonen Jump'.įrom around the beginning of the 1980s, he began to see the personal computer as a tool for the creative purposes. In 1976, he came to Tokyo and began to study under the famous Japanese manga artist, Osamu Tezuka.ĭuring the period he was working with the Manga Department of Tezuka Productions, his illustration work entitled 'Mother Earth, Turn Green Again' was awarded the Tezuka Award. In the early days of his career when he was still unknown, he contributed materials of comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him into the world of comics. His most famous works are Goku Midnight Eye and Space Adventure Cobra. Buichi Terasawa (寺沢武一 Terasawa Buichi, born Main Asahikawa, Hokkaido ) is a mangaka.

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