Ikki Kajiwara
6The Care · 51梶原 一騎
Born 1936
The writer of Ashita no Joe and Star of the Giants, who created the spokon sports story of guts and suffering.
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Career
Ikki Kajiwara was born in Tokyo in 1936. He wrote novels and stories before becoming one of the most successful manga writers of the 1960s and 1970s, working with different artists and sometimes under other pen names, such as Asao Takamori.
The work
His great hits include Star of the Giants (Kyojin no Hoshi, 1966–1971), drawn by Noboru Kawasaki, about a boy trained by his father to become a baseball star; Tiger Mask, about a masked wrestler; and Ashita no Joe, drawn by Tetsuya Chiba.
The style
Kajiwara's stories are about guts, suffering and the will to win, with heroes who train to the point of cruelty and fight past the limits of the body. They defined spokon, the sports manga of effort and spirit.
Why he matters
His work shaped how Japanese sports manga and many later battle manga treat effort and sacrifice. He died in 1987.
The name by its numbers
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