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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Shortlead Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo, known by the pen name Template:Nihongo, was a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Lupin III.

Life and careerEdit

Katō was born in Hamanaka, Hokkaido; he began drawing at a very young age, but did not draw manga until junior high school, when his manga strips were used in the school newspaper.<ref name="interview">Template:Cite news</ref> After graduating, he moved to Tokyo to look for work and began going to a technical school for electronics, continuing to draw for fun. While working in a dōjinshi group with other artists, he was recruited by Futabasha and drew yonkoma.<ref name="Mangazine">Template:Cite magazine</ref> He was an assistant to Naoki Tsuji on Zero-sen Hayato and Tiger Mask.<ref name="losers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Lupin III made its debut on August 10, 1967, in the first issue of the magazine Weekly Manga Action; the cover was also drawn by Monkey Punch. It went on to become an extremely popular and successful media franchise, spawning numerous manga, six animated television series, seven animated feature films, two live-action films, three OVAs, near-yearly television specials since 1989, music CDs, video games, and a musical. Monkey Punch himself even directed the 1996 film, Dead or Alive.<ref name="interview"/>

In April 2005, he became the professor of Manga and Animation at Otemae University, in its Faculty of Media and Arts,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Technology in May 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On April 21, 2007, Monkey Punch participated in a series of lectures on the "interaction of manga and culture throughout the world" at the Freer Gallery of Art.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2008, Monkey Punch was a judge at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Second International Manga Awards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He designed the characters for the pachinko game CR Ginroku Gijinden Roman in 2012.<ref name="game">Template:Cite news</ref> The following year an anime adaptation of the game began airing on January 7, 2013, with Monkey Punch's designs adapted by Satoshi Hirayama, and was streamed with English subtitles on Crunchyroll.<ref name="game"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Monkey Punch participated in the writing of the 2014 live-action film adaptation of Lupin III.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life and deathEdit

Monkey Punch resided in Sakura, Chiba, until his death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He died on April 11, 2019, due to pneumonia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Pen nameEdit

Katō first started to work as a professional manga artist, under the pen name Template:Nihongo. In 1965, he made his debut with Playboy School, writing under the name of Template:Nihongo. The editor of the magazine that "discovered him" then suggested the pen name Monkey Punch.<ref name="interview"/> Katō claims that he did not like the name, but agreed because it was his boss's idea and his next series was only supposed to be a three-month project.<ref name="interview"/> When the series, Lupin III, became popular, he was stuck with the name.

Katō's younger brother, Template:Nihongo, worked as his assistant on Lupin III. For years it was widely believed that the pen name Monkey Punch referred to the two brothers working together as a creative duo, but in a 2017 interview they clarified that this idea stemmed from a mistaken magazine article, and that the name Monkey Punch should be understood to refer exclusively to the older brother Kazuhiko, who did all of the main creative work concerning the characters, story, and the main drawings. The younger brother Teruhiko explained that he was exclusively doing assistant work.<ref name="losers"/>

StyleEdit

Monkey Punch has stated that Osamu Tezuka was the reason he wanted to become a manga artist.<ref name="losers"/> He acknowledged the influence Mad magazine artist Mort Drucker had on his work.<ref name="losers"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

AwardsEdit

He received the Inkpot Award in 1981 and a special Tokyo Anime Award in 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

List of worksEdit

1960sEdit

  • 1962
    • Number 5 + α
    • Gun Hustler
    • Rebellious Child
    • List the Criminal
    • Open Homicide
    • Clandestine Work
    • The Man Who Does Not Have a Shadow
    • The Person Whom It Uses
    • Vengeance (Fukushu) as Kazuhiko Katō
    • Ghost Story Guy as Kazuhiko Katō
  • 1965
    • Template:Nihongo as Eiji Gamuta
    • Needless Axle of Wilderness
    • Pink Guard Man ... Blues of the Assassin (Pinku Gado Man ... Hissatsu no Burusu)
    • Outsider (Autosaida Monkey Punch)
  • 1967
  • 1968
    • Western Samurai (Uesutan Samurai)
  • 1969
    • Pandora

1970sEdit

  • 1970
    • Spy Nobility (Supai Shinzoku)
    • Document Mania (Dokyumento Kyo)
    • Template:Nihongo
    • Tac Tics
  • 1971
  • 1972
  • 1973
    • Sufficiently Motivated (Yaruki Jubun)
    • Decoy House Slug (Kikuya Namekuji)
    • Venus of Diamond (Daia no Binasu)
  • 1974
    • I Am Casanova (Ore wa Kazanoba)
    • Color Girl (Kara Garu)
    • Isshuku Ippan (一宿一飯)
    • Template:Nihongo
  • 1976
    • Little Dracula (Dorakyura-kun)
    • Up-Up Balloon (UP-UP Barun)
  • 1977
  • 1978
    • Time Agent (Jikan Ejento)
    • Kaiketsu Zero

1980sEdit

  • 1980
    • Template:Nihongo
    • Boy
    • Botchan (anime, character design)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1981
  • 1982
    • Space Adventure Team Mechabunger (Uchū Bōken-tai Mekabanja)
    • Another work from Cinderella Boy.
  • 1983
    • Roller Boy (Rora Boi)
    • Lucky Monkey (Raki Monki)
  • 1984
  • 1986
    • Pinky Punky (ピンキィ パンキィ Pinkī Pankī)
    • Dirty Joke (ダアティ ジョオク Dāteī Jōku)
    • Template:Nihongo

1990sEdit

2000sEdit

  • 2004
    • Mankatsu (anime)

2010sEdit

ReferencesEdit

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