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Post by toei on Mar 22, 2024 10:17:48 GMT -5
Manga is clearly not that popular in the US. I think it was somewhat popular in the Quebec market specifically because France has more of a manga culture and they started exporting French edition of various manga to Quebec somewhere in the late '90s. There was a large bookstore near my elementary school and they started having a decent manga selection around that time. I've mentioned it before, but all the boys liked Dragon Ball, and the girls were into Sailor Moon. I also had a few volumes of Fly (aka The Adventure of Dai), as did a friend or two. It wasn't as popular, but I guess we liked it well enough because it was also a fight shonen with a similar art style. I also remember seeing other manga at that store like Bastard! (I liked it cause it was edgy and slightly ecchi, so I bought a random volume), Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita - I found the fights confusing and hard to follow visually), and Gon (the little dinosaur that guest appeared in Tekken 3 - that wasn't for me at all, no dialogue and it's not even a cool dino?).
Kikuchi was super prolific and did a lot of TV too, from jidaigeki to cop shows to Kamen Rider and anime. In general he mostly worked for Toei, I think, so that probably explains the variety, as they had their hands in everything through their film, tv and anime divisions. Most Japanese composers of the time used a ton of horns and I don't know who started the sound necessarily, but I'm sure he had some influence on it. They were probably inspired by Ennio Morricone and Italian Westerns, too. This is one of his really famous themes from that period, from the popular cop show G-Men '75:
Kikuchi was super prolific and did a lot of TV too, from jidaigeki to cop shows to Kamen Rider and anime. In general he mostly worked for Toei, I think, so that probably explains the variety, as they had their hands in everything through their film, tv and anime divisions. Most Japanese composers of the time used a ton of horns and I don't know who started the sound necessarily, but I'm sure he had some influence on it. They were probably inspired by Ennio Morricone and Italian Westerns, too. This is one of his really famous themes from that period, from the popular cop show G-Men '75: