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Tamaki Saito (斎藤 環, Saitō Tamaki) is a Japanese psychologist and critic. He is a fan of Hirohiko Araki and has done multiple interviews with him as well as provided comments on Araki's works in multiple instances.

He is notable for coining the term of Hikikomori and his study of it, which he is also recognized as the leading expert on the phenomenon.[1]

Biography

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Saito first encounted Araki in 1997 when they had an interview between each other discussing the current state of manga and Araki's creation process in Eureka Magazine.[2] With this meeting he has mentioned that he was elated because he had been a fan for more than 10 years.[3] When they had another interview with each other again in 2007, he brings up that it was nice to meet him again since they hadn't met again since their first interview 10 years prior.[4]

In the March 15, 2009 issue of Brutus magazine, Araki and Saito were photographed together by Kishin Shinoyama at Araki's home. The article, titled "Interpersonal relationship" (人間関係), included the photo[a], biographies of the two of them, and comments about each other.[5] In January 2024, he tweeted about the recent passing of Shinoyama and the photo shoot he had with Araki for Brutus. He also mentions that after the camera was set up on a tripod, the shoot was finished in only about 15 minutes.[6]

In early 2012, Araki illustrated the cover of the paperback edition of his book "Lacan for Surviving" (生き延びるためのラカン, Ikinobiru tame no Lacan). The book provides commentary on French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and acts as an introduction to psychoanalysis. The illustration depicts Lacan in a suit with Yoshikage Kira's skull tie.[7]

In October 2012, Saito was amongst the people that reviewed JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in columns that were included in the HIROHIKO ARAKI WORKS 1981-2012 catalog. He also was part of the special feature done on Araki from the monthly art magazine "Bijutsu Techo." In it, he provides an analysis that discusses Michelangelo's influence on Araki and the similarities between them as "soul twins" in the context of art history and their style of expression, as well as the nature of Stands in Neoplatonism.[8]

In December 2013, he tweeted in congratulations of Araki winning the Grand Prize in the manga division for JoJolion at the 2013 Japan Media Arts Festival.[9]

In December 2021, he tweeted in a response that Hisao Nakai is the Araki of psychiatry in the sense that he has many fans not only among his peers but also among professionals in other fields. He also mentions that maybe it's the other way around.[10]

Commentary

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初めて斎藤先生に会った時は、自分も精神分析されるのかなあなんて思って、少し緊張していました。あれからかれこれ12年の付き合い。斎藤先生には、どんな物事にもいろんな角度からの解釈があることを教えてもらいました。先生の平等さに、僕は感動したんです。
Link to this sectionBrutus
病理に冒された作家は長続きしないもの。荒木さんの作品には屈折も葛藤もあるし、表現は健康的とは言えない。でも、荒木さん自身が健康なので続いているんです。
—Tamaki Saito

Interviews

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Gallery

See also

Ballad Kitaguni, Ryo Yoshigami, Gosho Aoyama

Notes

  1. The given title of the photo is "Arakirakan" (アラキラカン).

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