rajio manga cont.

[Kyoko Omori]

Hi Jonathan,

How are you? I assume that you are reading the transcription of  
"Rajio saiyuki" performed by Tokugawa Musei in 1951-52. I don't know  
if the following is of much help, but here is what I know:

As you already mentioned, Musei's Rajio saiyuki was first aired in  
July 1950. This was actually started when another rajio manga titled  
"Rajio manga Sazae-san" was discontinued. This "Sazae-san" was aired  
from April through June of the same year, and as far as I know,  
that's the earliest "rajio manga." According to Musei himself, his  
attempts to transform the 4-frame comic strip Sazae-san into a radio  
show was a total failure. But when he began "Manga saiyuki" after the  
short-lived Sazae-san, that became one of his most popular shows ever.

I'm not sure if there were any earlier cases of rajio manga  
especially in the prewar years, but Sazae-san predates Saiyuki, at  
least.

Kyoko

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Kyoko Omori

Visiting Researcher (July 2007-August 2008) @ Waseda University,  
Tokyo, Japan
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor in Japanese
East Asian Languages & Literatures Department
Hamilton College
Clinton, New York, USA




On Aug 26, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Jonathan M. Hall wrote:

> Dear Akiko and Roland,
>
> Thank you for two very helpful answers.  They do a lot to give the  
> cultural context from the Saiyuki stories broadcasts.  Akiko and  
> Roland both suggest the 1970s as an important period for the  
> development of this term, but perhaps I should have better  
> contextualized my question.  The text that I'm reading from is  
> actually a transcription, published in the Fall of 1951, of the  
> radio broadcast--rajio manga-- of Saiyuki begun in 1950.  The first  
> (postwar, at least) broadcast was recorded on the night of 8 Juky  
> 1950 and broadcast the following evening at the unpopular hour  
> (especially considering Japanese summer time, then) of 5:30 pm.   
> The broadcasts were weekly and, at 15 minutes per episode it took  
> the space of a year for the story to be half-completed.
>
>  So the term really does seem to have a longer history and  
> certainly one that preceeds Tezuka's rendition, which was not until  
> Showa 27 (1952).  Indeed, it was probably the increasing popularity  
> of this radio series that inspired Tezuka's version, "Boku no  
> Songoku". From 1950 to 1951 the show moved from NHK2 to NHK1 and to  
> better and better time slots.  The producer of the radio series  
> describes the Hammond Organ, the high quality voice actors, and the  
> "effects boys" as the reasons for the show's popularity.  In this  
> case, then, we see a movement from radio to film, not the other  
> direction that Roland so very thoroughly outlined below.
>
> So, I am still curious about the origins (prewar, I suspect) for  
> rajio-manga ... and whether there is anything more than a  
> figurative meaning for the visual in this usage of manga.  Thank  
> you again to Akiko and Roland!
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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> On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Roland Domenig wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu im Auftrag von  
>> Jonathan M. Hall
>> Gesendet: Di 21.08.2007 10:47
>> An: KineJapan
>> Betreff: rajio manga
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Jonathan M. Hall
>> Japanese Film, Media, and Modern Literature
>> Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature / Film & Media Studies
>>
>> 320 Humanities Instructional Building
>> UC Irvine, Irvine CA 92697-2651 USA
>> office: 1-949-824-9778
>> fax: 1-949-824-1992
>>
>> Co-Chair, Queer Caucus, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
>>
>>
>>
>>
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