December 2020

History

The Origins of Mecha: The Super Robots of the 1970s

The 1970s were a fruitful period for popular media in Japan. Weekly Shōnen Jump debuted in 1969, Rumiko Takahashi launched her manga career with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, and numerous popular works such as Rose of Versailles and KochiKame made their way to the pages of popular manga magazines over the course of the decade. […]

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