AW: rajio manga

[Roland Domenig]

Hi Jonathan,

the term "rajio manga" seems to have developed in 1970 when TBS Radio started a series of radio dramas aired on sunday nights called SHINYABAN RAJIO MANGA. The first "rajio manga" in this series was NINPO SONGOKU based on the SAIYUKI story. I don't know whether this drama was based on Tezuka Osamu's manga or the Toei animation film, but at the time the story was quite popular, because there were other adaptations made around that time among them also a puppet animation series. The TBS radio manga series gained popularity not least because of voice actress Mizumori Ako. The term "radio manga" seems to have been a kind of TBS brand name.  

Another term frequently used was "rajio gekiga". These were radio drama versions of popular gekiga (dramatic comics) such as BLACK JACK.

We should not forget, that before the war it was common practice in Japanese radio to have radio drama versions of films. These were called "eiga monogatari" or "hoso eigageki". A lot of famous directors worked for radio and directed radio dramas, among them Yamamoto Kajiro, Uchida Tomu, Chiba Taiki, Mizoguchi Kenji and even Ozu Yasujiro. The relation between film and radio in Japan still needs to be explored.

Roland 
    

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Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu im Auftrag von Jonathan M. Hall
Gesendet: Di 21.08.2007 10:47
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Dear KineJapanners,

In some recent reading, I came across the term "rajio manga." Is  
anyone familiar with what precisely this refers to?  The context of  
my reading was the weekly radio serial Saiyuuki (Journey to the  
West) ... better known in English as Monkey or Monkey Magic?

My question is when, how, and why this term "rajio manga" developed?

Yours,
Jonathan


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