Interview:Tokai Lecture (June 2006): Difference between revisions - JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia

Young Araki lived with his father, an office worker, his mother, a stay-at-home mom, and younger identical twin sisters. Those sisters were quite a handful: for example, if there were 3 snacks, the sisters, upon arriving home first, would eat all 3, and then proceed to conceal any traces of evidence. Growing up, young Araki, thinking that there weren't any snacks, "would think 'man, I'm hungry' and go chew on something like a really old piece of kamaboko." (audience bursts into laughter). And when his sisters' evil doings came to light, a fight would erupt; and this would occur on a daily basis. (yet more laughter) He would often feel such a sense of exclusion and ill-will towards his sisters that he didn't want to come home. He used to find relief in spending time ~~along~~alone in his room, reading classic manga from the '70's and his father's collection of art books, which he supposes was his motive for drawing manga. He figures that had he not started drawing manga, he "might have gotten out of hand and killed my sisters." (laughter)

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The most powerful technique: "Time". Stopping it, returning to the past, watching the future... if there were people who can control such a thing, they'd be invincible. For a main character with powers that aren't invincible, I want to have people wonder how such a character could win. The ability to control physical things, such as gravity, is also very powerful.

*(Also refer to [~~http~~[Interview:~~//atmarkjojo.org/archives/1120.html Araki Hirohiko/Shibasaki Tomoka's~~ Osaka University of Arts, ~~College~~University Manga Vol. 4] ~~[Note:~~(November ~~This interview is missing on JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia~~2005)]])

Araki: About time, when I think about it, it's incredibly powerful. You can do things like repeating the same morning over and over, stopping time while jumping, and the people who become visible only at a particular time, etc. But if I used that concept every time, someone would say: "Is JoJo only about 'time'?" So... (laughs).

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Line 25: {{font\|3\|'''Motives For Drawing Manga, Family, Days of Youth'''}} Young Araki lived with his father, an office worker, his mother, a stay-at-home mom, and younger identical twin sisters. Those sisters were quite a handful: for example, if there were 3 snacks, the sisters, upon arriving home first, would eat all 3, and then proceed to conceal any traces of evidence. Growing up, young Araki, thinking that there weren't any snacks, "would think 'man, I'm hungry' and go chew on something like a really old piece of kamaboko." (audience bursts into laughter). And when his sisters' evil doings came to light, a fight would erupt; and this would occur on a daily basis. (yet more laughter) He would often feel such a sense of exclusion and ill-will towards his sisters that he didn't want to come home. He used to find relief in spending time ~~along~~alone in his room, reading classic manga from the '70's and his father's collection of art books, which he supposes was his motive for drawing manga. He figures that had he not started drawing manga, he "might have gotten out of hand and killed my sisters." (laughter) By the way, in [[Interview:Weekly_Shonen_Brackets_100Q_(April_2003)\|Fuji Television 721's Weekly Shonen Brackets]] Mr. Araki describes his sisters as "the devil" (laughs). Line 63: (Araki shows a diagram<ref>[https://jojowiki.com/File:Tokai_Lecture_graphic.gif Recreation of Tokai Lecture (June 2006) Manga Diagram by SHATO from Atmarkjojo.org]</ref> mapping the world of manga) ~~{{Ext\|https~~[[File:~~//i.imgur.com/zsoIyye~~ArakiTokaiLectureMap.png\|thumb\|300px\|center}} ]] On the lower left of {{W\|Kamui (1964 manga)\|Kamui}} is {{W\|Yukinobu Hoshino}}, who for some reason is the only person referred to by their name and not the title of their work Line 120: The most powerful technique: "Time". Stopping it, returning to the past, watching the future... if there were people who can control such a thing, they'd be invincible. For a main character with powers that aren't invincible, I want to have people wonder how such a character could win. The ability to control physical things, such as gravity, is also very powerful. *(Also refer to [~~http~~[Interview:~~//atmarkjojo.org/archives/1120.html Araki Hirohiko/Shibasaki Tomoka's~~ Osaka University of Arts, ~~College~~University Manga Vol. 4] ~~[Note:~~(November ~~This interview is missing on JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia~~2005)]]) {{Text\| Araki: About time, when I think about it, it's incredibly powerful. You can do things like repeating the same morning over and over, stopping time while jumping, and the people who become visible only at a particular time, etc. But if I used that concept every time, someone would say: "Is JoJo only about 'time'?" So... (laughs).