Tenmaku Cinema: Research Notes
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Six word summary: Rated Ten out of Tenmaku Cinemas
Writer: Yuuto Tsukuda
- Notable people they were an assistant for:
- None known. BUT:
- Helped Yuki Tabata with his Golden Future Cup-winning one-shot Hungry Joker, as the two are pals who grew up together.
- Learn more by buying Black Clover vol.4, featuring a one-page strip by Tsukuda.
- Helped Yuki Tabata with his Golden Future Cup-winning one-shot Hungry Joker, as the two are pals who grew up together.
- None known. BUT:
- Notable people they had as assistants:
- Yusaku Shibata (ZIPMAN!!)
- on Shonen Shikku (volume credits)
- Keisuke Gotou (JOKER: One Operation Joker)
- on Shonen Shikku (volume credits)
- Atsushi Nakamura (AGRAVITY BOYS)
- on Shonen Shikku (volume credits)
- Unamu Masubuchi (No Reception)
- on Tenmaku Cinema (vol.3 credits)
- Yusaku Shibata (ZIPMAN!!)
- Other works:
- Shonen Shikku (2010, 2 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump)
- A young football ace obsessed with being cool is suddenly outshone by a new transfer, but learns valuable lessons about skill and teamwork that ultimately lead their team straight into cancellation.
- Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (2012-2019, 36 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump) art by Shun Saeki
- A foodgasm manga in the tradition of Yakitate!! Japan, taken to a logical extreme by Shun Saeki’s ero-manga history. Ran too long and ate up all its goodwill, but still achieved great success with a multi-season anime, light novels, a spin-off manga, a 3DS game, and I guess a mobile game if you’re into those.
- Blue Archipelago: Sapporo: September (2016, 3 chapters, Shonen Jump GIGA) art by Hirakei
- Tsukuda teams with the future artist of “‘Tis Time for Torture, Princess” to tell a story about, of all things, ski-jumping. A light-hearted mini-series about changing oneself for the better.
- Shokugeki no Sanji (2018-2022, 1 volume, Weekly Shonen Jump & Saikyo Jump) art by Shun Saeki
- It’s Food Wars but with Sanji. What else could there be to say. Has run sporadically for special occasions.
- Shonen Shikku (2010, 2 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump)
- Bonus info:
- Favourite manga are Slam Dunk, Yotsuba&!, and Ushio & Tora
- Favourite movie is GO, directed by Isao Yukisada
- Has a lot of nicknames listed in Shonen Shikku vol.1, which I will now list below:
- Tsukkun
- Fuda
- Tsukudashi
- Kaku-san
- Tsukkii
- Tsuku Tsuku
- Blood type B. So uh. If you need type B blood, uh… hit him up, I guess. Author profiles are weird.
Artist: Shun Saeki
- Notable people they were an assistant for:
- Tadahiro Miura (Yuna & the Haunted Hot Springs)
- on Koisome Momiji (credited in vol.4)
- Tadahiro Miura (Yuna & the Haunted Hot Springs)
- Notable people they had as assistants:
- Ryoma Kitada (SUPER HxEROS)
- on Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma
- Ryoma Kitada (SUPER HxEROS)
- Other works:
- A modest stack of hentai (2008-2011, 2 vols) under the pen-name tosh
- Did you know that before breaking out in the world of shonen manga, Shun Saeki drew naughty sex comics that titillate the senses? A member of the circle HikaPan, ‘tosh’ has two one-shot collections to his name, those being ‘Harem Time’ and ‘Menkui!’.
- Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (2012-2019, 36 vols, Weekly Shonen Jump) story by Yuuto Tsukuda
- I’m not telling you about it twice.
- Shokugeki no Sanji (2018-2022, 1 volume, Weekly Shonen Jump & Saikyo Jump) story by Yuuto Tsukuda
- Once again, scroll up.
- A modest stack of hentai (2008-2011, 2 vols) under the pen-name tosh
Publishing
- Run Dates
- April 10th, 2023 - September 11, 2023
- Chapters/Volumes:
- 21 chapters + epilogue/3 volumes
- Series it replaced:
- Tokyo Demon Bride Story by Tadaichi Nakama (4 vols, flop, Shonen Flop episode 77)
- Series that replaced it:
- Kagurabachi by Takeru Hokazono (ongoing)
- Series that started at the same time as it:
- Kill Blue by Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Kuroko’s Basketball, Robot x Laserbeam) (1 vol+, ongoing)
- Do Retry by Jun Kirarazaka (Bone Collection) (2 vols, flop) FLOP ELIGIBLE
- Nue’s Exorcist by Kota Kawae (1 vol+, ongoing)
Manga Itself / Misc thoughts
- The term “chunibyo”, describing teenagers with grandiose delusion who want to stand out as special somehow, has been around since the late 90s. You may have also heard it called “middle-schooler syndrome”. One of the variants of this is the “evil eye” version, where the teens want to have or convince others they have special powers, like a cursed eye or POSSESSED ARM. Keep this in mind whenever anyone remarks on Hajime and Tenmaku’s ghost antics. Just a phase.
- Ryu Shirakawa is Akira Kurosawa. It’s not subtle. His films are thinly veiled references to Kurosawa’s ouvre, and he’s cited as being a huge influence of Spielberg and George Lucas (COME ON). Shirakawa, at the least, lived a few years longer than Kurosawa, but Kurosawa was married and had kids, so who’s the real winner. I’ll list all the Tenmaku Titles™️ I recognised and their Kurosawa Equivalents™️ below:
- July Requiem (Rhapsody in August)
- Six Beasts (Seven Samurai)
- Rain Gate (Rashomon)
- White Beard (Red Beard)
- The Hound (Stray Dog)
- Endless Saturday (One Wonderful Sunday)
- Mouiikai (Madadayo)
- I’ll explain this one, just because I love it. It’s literally a back and forth. もういいかい (mouiikai) is asking “are you ready?” And まあだだよ(madadayo) is saying “not yet!”
- Films mentioned/appearing in this series (excluding all the Kurosawa):
- Cinema Paradiso (referred to as ‘New Cinema Paradise’)
- The Sting
- Tokyo Story
- Despite being specifically mentioned under its real name, has a parody poster as ‘Osaka Story’ in chapter 13 (not to be confused with the ACTUAL Osaka Story)
- The Godfather
- Taxi Driver
- The 400 Blows
- Paris, Texas
- Linda Linda Linda
- The Shawshank Redemption
- One Cut of the Dead (referred to by its original title ‘Don’t Stop The Camera!’)
- Tangerine (the 2015 film shot entirely using phones, not named in-manga presumably due to its content)
- Home Alone (chapter 7, film case)
- Top Gun (chapter 7, chapter 8, flashback handshake)
- The Promised Neverland (live-action)
- The NeverEnding Story (chapter 12, flashback drawing)
- Nobody Knows
- ‘Master Tarkovski’ in chapter 15 is Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian director. In his book about cinema, ‘Sculpting in Time’, Tarkovsky said:
- “Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.”
- MANGA WATCH! Manga volumes you can see in this series:
- Dragon Ball (chapter 7 and chapter 14, as “BD”)
- Bleach (chapter 14, as BROACH)
- Clappers:
- The clapper on vol.1’s cover has the release date of the volume on it.
- A clapper after the opening colour pages (monochrome in-volume) has the date the series debuted in Japan on it. Cute.
- Volume extras include:
- Inter-chapter gags and art
- Literally a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure reference in a one-off character profile
(The pose) (The profile)
- A cute strip in volume 2 explaining more about Tenmaku’s pen-name
- Credits for those in the film industry who were interviewed while researching this manga.
- A full epilogue chapter (SPOILERS AHEAD) bridging the gap between the end of the series and ‘The Fang’ being written, including the boys starting high school, Hajime becoming an assistant to Director Yukio, and Hinaki moving to America. Not essential, but a great extra.
- The one-shot ‘Yugen’s All-Ghoul Homeroom’, available in the Shonen Jump Vault.
- Credits for the in-universe short film ‘The Shore’.
- Staff credits! Most staff are newcomers who’ve only done one-shots though, so not that useful….YET.
