The Japanese artist has died at the age of 74 Gosaku Otafamous author of the drawings of Mazinger Z, Grendizer and Jeeg Roboterstahl, created by the writer and cartoonist go nagai of whom he was a close collaborator. The designer died after a few days in hospital from pneumonia and complications from Covid. His disappearance would have occurred on December 12, but according to the wishes of the family, the news was not announced in Japan until yesterday, January 2. His career began as an assistant to Shotaro Ishinomori, Author of Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider, Hokusai, Miyamoto Musashi. From the early 70’s he then became one of the main collaborators of Go Nagai, with whom he created the first manga on paper of the Nagai sagas such as Mazinger Z, The Great Mazinger and Goldrake, which achieved great success. It was Fabbri publishing house that published the manga in the 1980s, which was then re-released by Granata Press in the 1990s. A success repeated and extended by the animated versions of the manga that aired in Japan almost fifty years ago, with the first episodes of Goldrake appearing on October 5, 1975 and then arriving on Rai2 in Italy about three years later. In 1980, Rai aired the Mazinga Z series, with 92 episodes then landed on commercial television until the 1990s.
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