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On March 26, 2024, Prime Minister Kishida and the ruling parties (Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito) ignored parliamentary deliberations and made a cabinet decision to export weapons with lethal capabilities overseas.
Until now, Japan has had a constitution that renounces war and has prohibited arms exports.
However, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito forced the passage of the War Participation Act in 2015, and have continued to force the passage of many war-related laws.
Unfortunately, 50% of Japanese voters do not vote and still indulge in entertainment provided by big corporations.
As long as there is this anger, Kiryukan will never stop producing works.
We strongly protest against Prime Minister Kishida and the Japanese government (Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito).
Kishida Shame on you! You are the worst!



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Zashikiro

# by kiyubaru2020 | 2024-03-26 16:03 | 政治 society, politics

BOO

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The story of ''Kiryu's Forbidden Pictorial'', which was planned in the 1980s, is as follows.
As a Harada boy witnessed various kinds of hell in Kiryu (customs, superstition, alcohol, Buddhism, gambling, yakuza, sex...) and He tried to escape from such a stuffy town. (Somewhat similar to Terayama's "Pastoral: To Die in the Country").

This project was scheduled to be produced if Maruo did not give permission for the production of ''MIDORI''.
However, Maruo gave permission for ''MIDORI'', so Harada prioritized the production of ''MIDORI''.

After that, the political situation in Japan and the world continued to deteriorate, and Harada decided that he needed a piece with a more straightforward social problem than his nostalgic work, and began producing ''Zashikiro'' and ''Horizon Blue''.

However, Harada, who had been painting people and Japanese houses for 30 years in ''Zashikiro'' and ''Horizon Blue'', did not have the confidence to continue painting the same motifs in new works for the next 10 years.

All of Harada's friends call his new work "BOO", so there is a strong possibility that the official title will be "BOO".

As a child, Harada was nicknamed ''BOO(Pig guy)'' and was the target of gang violence at school for years.
At first, Harada didn't understand why he was being beaten, but recently he realized that it was because he was extremely short.
If you are a victim of violence or discrimination even once, the hurt, resentment, and anger will never go away.

The new work ''BOO'' is Harada's revenge for bullying and violence, and Kiryukan's message to children.

The original concept for ''MIDORI'' was to express a cruel drama in the style of children's animation from the 1970s.

This time, at first glance, it looks like a picture book for children.
However, the content is full of anger towards society and politics.

Harada believes that in order to eliminate bullying and violence, we need shocking expressions like those seen in 1970s movies.

The atrophy of creative expression due to the influence of unscrupulous politics leads to a suffocating society and deprives young people of hope.

The subtitle ''地下迷宮裏画報'' means a "underground labyrinth secret picture book".

By the way, Harada's first TV keyanimation work was ''Noozles''.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles




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The first key visual drawn in 1991. https://kiyubaru.exblog.jp/32840787/



# by kiyubaru2020 | 2024-03-25 18:41 | 地下迷宮裏画報BOO

Engels continues to write.

Workers living in big cities cannot own their own property.
They have no choice but to live on their wages.
Society tells them.
"Take care of yourself and your family! It's your responsibility."
But society does not give them the means to support their families.
They are constantly at risk of unemployment and starvation.
The competition created by large factories and mechanization turned small farmers into proletariat.
As a result, the population concentrated in cities.
Capitalists compete, and workers are also forced to competition.
In competition with each other, workers get in the way and push others down, trying to survive on their own.
The proletariat has nothing to rely on.
But the bourgeoisie has a monopoly over all means of subsistence.
Its monopoly is protected by the state.
In other words, the proletariat is legally a slave to the bourgeoisie.
Whether the proletariat is saved or killed is at the discretion of the bourgeoisie.

Marx was always angry, and so was Engels.


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Limitless Paradise



# by kiyubaru2020 | 2024-03-24 21:53 | marx engels eisen

skin and sweat particles

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“Zashikiro” has two joints in its fingers. Then, he added touches to each piece one by one, as if they were oil paintings. This took quite a while.
On "Boo", he forgoes touch and uses only one knuckles. Harada believes that this will speed up the drawing process.
Having only one joints on the fingers is an expression that was frequently used in Japanese manga and anime in the 1960s and 1970s.
The character in "Boo" has the head of a teddy bear, but the lower body is depicted as a human. The structure resembles that of a human wearing a large bear costume over his head.
Harada also made sure to add dirt such as sweat and rough skin to the characters in ”Horizon Blue''.
In both ”Zashikiro'' and ”Horizon Blue'', Harada made sure to draw the sweat on women's skin and the sweat marks on their armpits and socks.
This was the case in 1970s Japanese and American films depicting labor unions and the poor. (For example, “Norma Rae (1979)”).
In the worker movies of the time, the characters were covered in sweat and mud, but they lived their lives to the fullest.
Harada worries that in recent years, as images have become higher quality and clearer, there is less representation of the sweat of living people.
Filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s used grainy 16mm film to express the sweat of poor people struggling to survive.


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"Kiga Kaikyo(Hunger Strait)" (1965/Director Tomu Uchida/Toei) uses 16mm to express the texture of human skin.
However, all of the movies that pioneering filmmakers had taken the pains to emphasize the grain of their image quality have all been digitally remastered and sterilized at the discretion of large corporations.


# by kiyubaru2020 | 2024-03-24 21:28 | 裏画報 Forbidden Color

The development of the steam engine completely changed the world. (That's why there is a montage of steam locomotives in the movie "Le jeune Karl Marx (2017)").
However, the machine created a large number of proletariat.
Until then, the veteran chief craftsmen had been driven out by large factory owners.
Those who are born into the proletariat cannot escape the proletariat for the rest of their lives.
Becoming a large factory owner requires a large amount of capital.
The British bourgeoisie ignores this plight.
Engels defines social competition in large cities as war.
Engels continues to report on the slums of England.
Articles from the Times and the Guardian are also cited from time to time.
The slums are unsanitary and smelly. Some people starve to death.
The structure of slums is common in all countries.
It is a huge maze of thousands of shabby huts, unmaintained roads and rivers.
Nearby, the bourgeoisie is living a luxurious life and indulging in hedonism.
These absurdities are aided by the bourgeoisie's allies, the law, the police, and the juries.
The wealthy look at the slums and laugh.
Rich people laugh at young women suffering from hunger, squalor, and disease.
The movie ”Le jeune Karl Marx (2017)'' is a well-made movie. However, the scenery of Manchester in the short scene in which Engels investigates the poverty situation in England at the beginning is still beautiful compared to Engels' description.
In his writings, Engels repeatedly reported on the stench of shantytowns.

*In Japan, it is common to translate England to Great Britain. Many of Engels's works have been translated into English, so this article followed suit.

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Zashikiro / Zashikiro / Horizon blue / Limitless Paradise


# by kiyubaru2020 | 2024-03-23 20:09 | marx engels eisen