Thinking about a great Anime creator

 Hello All,                                                                                                                                                       I just a few minutes ago I went an changed my profile and cover images on Facebook to this: 

my favorite anime from the series called Star Blazers here in America and all other parts of the world outside, (well maybe of course,  I am going by my best thoughts and hunches on some of that very statement) of it's home country of Japan. There it is called Space Battleship Yamato for the animated series and the Manga that is what comics are known as over there in Japan, it comic series forum is called  Cosmo ship Yamato written by  anime creator Arkia Matsumoto. Who like American comic creator Stanley Martin Lieber went an legally changed his name Stan Lee, Arkia went an decided like Lieber to use a pen name or what is known as a pseudonym till he became the artist he was wanting to be. He chose Leiji as his first name and was fine with his own family last name for his newest venture into being an creative artist. Leiji besides creating stories about his favorite real life battleship known as Yamato he created other great works of fiction, yet just a little less than an hour ago I had surprisingly found out that he had passed away on February 13th 2023.                                                                                                                                        Leiji was born on January, twenty fifth, in nineteen thirty eight during Japan's pre war building of World War II time in the city known as Kurume in the part of the Japanese district ( I am thinking?), or maybe it is a city too...  called  Fukuoka, Japan. Now a few years ago before the world wide pandemic known as Covid my folks and I were able to travel to Japan for one my many vacations from Safeway where I work, when at the time it was most definitely a store by the name of Albertson's. One thing that I or even my folks may not have known was if we were anywhere near either of Fukuoka or Kurume the two cities themselves, after all we were only there in Japan for a week... so who knows for certain? Back to the early life of Arkia/ Leiji Matsumoto when he was still very young in life, the actual battleship Yamato was built in secret and was completed in     

                   September nineteen forty one in Matsumoto's city of Kurume. He was four years of age  back then. Here is a scene from the original space cruiser yamato animation series for that in Star Blazers is edited out  

because of showing actual history for Japanese audiences of their love for feeling strong of their battleship. As you can see one the two people looks to be a young child and the other maybe a father or perhaps a grandfather as the Yamato sails off to her fate. I truly believe that when Leiji was writing the original series of space cruiser yamato and he was writing this sequence of yamato leaving port the little boy must be himself. Only that the boy in the scene is maybe older than he actually was.                                                                                Besides making comics and animes about his love of his country's historical time with an uplifting bit of creativity hope, Leiji also made other science fiction series and Mangas and anime series. One those other series he went an interconnected with Space Battleship Yamato was Space pirate Captain Harlock. In fact here is a image of all         

 of Leiji Matsumoto science fiction vessels... and yes there is a space train above Harlock's ship known as Arcadia is the GE999 from the series called Galaxy Express 999. Which is about a train that makes stops throughout the Andromeda galaxy, it's about a boy chasing his father's killer, also in a few of the television episodes of the series Harlock's crew are passengers... both Galaxy Express 999 and the Harlock's series were made in nineteen seventy seven while Space Battleship Yamato and it's sequel, were put in production in animation forum in nineteen seventy four just two years after I was born. Now as to the space blimp that is the same color scheme as the Yamato, I can only understand it's purpose as a decoy/smaller Yamato/Argo in the quest for Iscandar episode of when the gamilons are using space mines to stop the Star Force. As to the space blimp's actual comic story origin I am at a lost? Back last year in October at my comic store of Adventures Underground I had forgotten that I had ordered this book     

     seen here on the upper right of my coffee table. It from my skimming through it has all three of the Japanese comics that the originally was published in nineteen seventy one through to nineteen seventy three before Leiji Matsumoto went and made the anime in nineteen seventy four, except the whole book is in English.                                                                      There is a very interesting thing that Matsumoto did with his female heroines in all of his stories that save the distance planet or train stations in need of help. The thing that as I am writing about his passing because of  acute heart failure, at the age of eighty five and trying to decide if I am wanting to share of his female heroines that he had a special connection with in my remembrance of him, or will I want to reveal whatever it is about them in their given series that they represent? You and I will really have to wait for when I review each his said series for the answer. And yes I have been watching Star Blazers over the last few months.....                                                                                                                    

                                           

The Twilight Zone overall explained....

                                                                 

Hello Everyone,                                                                                                                                            Well with where we are with it being just the second month of Twenty Twenty Three and anyone who knows the writer of this very blog is always finding something new ways to keep expanding your reasoning for coming here. So what's on your reading plans of today Wednesday February first? Let's just say it will take ALL of US ME, as well as you included ready for a journey into what? Let's just say that it will come from the farthest path that leads towards my age currently of fifty years old. Yet it is even older than me,  so when and where do we really start?                                                                                                    So Ummm, why am I using the color of Grey for my writing text this time?, It's to fit the feeling of this very old series that was created by a man named Rodman Edward Serling seen here  

who was born on Christmas day in nineteen, twenty four. He started working as television writer in nineteen forty six. Outside of being a writer he served in the army from nineteen forty three to nineteen forty six as part the 511th parachute infantry regiment and in forty four he was sent to California to fight the Japanese increasing forces on April twenty fifth, When he really wanted to fight the Germans especially Hitler for starting the war. He and his younger brother both joined the army the day each of them had graduated from high school.                                                                                                       After leaving his time of military service he started working with scripts for radio programs in nineteen forty eight, till he was able to be selling his stories to Kraft Television Thereater production along with two other television production companies in nineteen fifty three. It was his seventy second script to the company that was called "Patterns", that got his name truly recognized. Before he came up with the Twilight Zone at all. One of his prototype titles and alternative titles to the Twilight Zone was something he called "THE TIME ELEMENT". Surprisingly for those who grew up around the time of when television was created will be rather intirgued to know that Ricky Ricardo,  of "I LOVE LUCY" fame or rather his real name Desliu Arnez was not only the host of that very episode 

       , he also owned the place of production known as Westinghouse Desliu Playhouse. I will do a review of "THE TIME ELEMENT" since it was the intended polit of The Twilight Zone.                                                                                                                                                               Besides giving us an general understanding of the young man who created the anthology series that for many generations gives anyone who watches it a refreshing reflection of conversations on any aspects of existence, I want to share my answer from earlier of why I decided to use the color of Grey for the text of today's post... that is basically because I am wanting it to feel like the only way anyone is watching the original series of the Twilight Zone. Which was it airred in Black and White on our new ways of visual entertainment called television sets and from when they were created every thing coming through it were only those ways to see any series at the time.  And every production studio recorded there products on the only accessible way that was available and allowed. My actual other reasoning is that if I use Black as text is if I have a BLACK background we would never be able to read it, the same goes for the color of WHITE if I were using it right now it would be completely invisible to see on this very background of White. The Grey just as I said fits the era of the late nineteen fifties into the early parts of the start of the unknowable upcoming sixties!                                                                                       During it's premiere season Rod Serling was interviewed by the future sixty minutes reporter Michael Wallace on Mike's series titled The Michael Wallace Interview which ran for thrity minutes, during each installment. It began airring on April twenty eight, nineteen fifty seven on the ABC network.  Over the course of this very interview the two talked about a heavy subject matter of television at the time,  the subject was of censorship and Rod's new series called THE TWILIGHT ZONE which had just started airing on the rival CBS television network a few weeks later on October second,  nineteen fifty nine with the pilot episode titled "WHERE IS EVERYBODY"... Have I left you with a twist yet? Maybe I have who knows...                                                                                                            Even with a dated feel to some of the series stories of sixty four years of time, I will admit that for me no matter of how many times I watch them I am absolutely able to find out something in Mister Spock's famous line of dialogue from any episode of Star Trek "FASCINATING," New. What I mean by this is how Rod and his other writers of this series were able to make us as viewers everywhere see that there was more than just what was filmed from the camera point of view or even the scripts that ended up bringing these tales to breaking into the heart of the fifth dimension were the stars who gave the simple people an twist of fate. Each story of this thought provoking series has a opening tease and interesting ideas to think about by Mister Serling himself....                                                                                                                  Here's the closing thought for you all before I reveal my tablet onscreen reveals for the month of January of twenty, twenty three. Originally before the creator of the Twilight Zone was the host there was one other host considered for the series, but that said host went and later in the series known as Rod Serling Night Gallery did a voice over narrative in an episode about a snow globe who is this person? Before I reveal what I have had as my screen lock image and main screen image on my tablet over the whole month of January of twenty, twenty three, I want you all to know that for my wallpaper image on my mobile phone is still this one   

  of Uncle Matt and my niece Heidi Byrd now Moldenhauer. Which taken by her grandmother on her mother's side of the family last year on Easter Sunday after the church service, thanks for that Alysia Schwarz.  I am not sure when but I will change it for my upcoming birthday month of March,  twenty, twenty three but I will you can be sure of. Oh one quick question before I get to the other two screens and my background plate here at the site, I have had a beard since late September of last year and even though I know that I like it, I thought that I would ask you my readers about it?       

                     Here is Santa Claus Matt! Without a Red and White hat... So without fear of the unknowable upcoming responses on the beard topic, it time to show off what I had on my tablet's main lock screen when I turned it on during the entire entrance of the first month of 2023. Some of you have known that I am a very distinct take of being a nerd or an individual never ending revolving door and I found myself loving seeing Darth Vader's Earthly transportation is my title for this.  

                                                

  Yes as if your wondering I love the mystery of darkness of unanswered twists of Star Wars craziness... An why wouldn't he not stick out with K.I.T.T.  from  a little television series known as Knight Rider! To keeping with keeping my hopefulness towards my childhood memories of sorts when I was looking at my home tablet screen I felt very protected by having this 

    for reflection of my favorite toyline from the nineteen eighties. That of course being HE-MAN and the MASTERS of the UNIVERSE and I still have to name this one too, but I have a few ideas running around in my head for names. As to what I have had on the site as a plate goes back to my many thoughts on our dear planet series of does the earth have eyes 

   that I am really passionate about explaining at some point throughout this year. Even though I would like it to have it all out obliviously before my upcoming birthday but if not it will eventually will be coming...