Manga Creator, Marley Caribu 1979-2018 《Yes, Get Up! GET UP . STAND UP!!》 Manga Gensakusha, Marley Caribu 1979-2018 《Sou da, Tacchi ue! GET UP . STAND UP!!》 漫画原作者・狩撫麻礼 1979-2018 《そうだ、起ち上がれ!! GET UP . STAND UP!!》
Takahashi recounts meeting with Marley Caribu, a fellow first generation Gekiga Sonjuku graduate. She explains they would meet after classes at a cafe to discuss their lessons and she recalls his encouraging her to speak up and not be shy. She talks of his fondness for purple soda and Mild Seven cigarettes.
Takahashi explains her honor at having Caribu working alongside her in Big Comic Spirits during the serialization of Maison Ikkoku and how it had been thirty years since they had last been able to sit down with one another before the interview they conducted for the book where this was published.
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Manga Creator, Marley Caribu 1979-2018 《Yes, Get Up! GET UP . STAND UP!!》
Publication Date: July 20, 2019
Pages: 1 (black and white)
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Marley Caribu is the pen-name (one of many) of this manga writer. Other names he has published under include Garon Tsuchiya (土屋ガロン) and Marginal. Fearful of getting typecast for writing certain kinds of stories, Caribu frequently changed his pen-name later in his career.
Caribu's most noted manga is Old Boy which he wrote (under the pen name Garon Tsuchiya) with artwork by Nobuaki Minegishi (嶺岸信明). Old Boy has twice been adapted into film, once in 2003 by Park Chan-wook which won the Grand Prix at the Canne Film Festival and again in 2013 by Spike Lee.
Other manga he has written include Astral Project (月の光/Tsuki no Hikari), Reverse Edge: Okawabata Tanteisha (リバースエッジ 大川端探偵社) and East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Caribu has written manga with some of the most notable artists of his generation. These include Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋), Kenji Hirokane (弘兼憲史), Naoki Urasawa (浦沢直樹), Jiro Taniguchi (谷口ジロー), Kaiji Kawaguchi (かわぐちかいじ), Ryoichi Ikegami (池上遼一) and Hisashi Eguchi (江口寿史).
Marley Caribu was among the students who attended the first year of Kazuo Koike's manga cram school, Gekiga Sonjuku. Rumiko Takahashi and Atsushi Yamamoto (山本貴嗣) were other first year students.
Caribu at one time was close friends with mangaka and critic Jun Ishikawa, however as Ishikawa writes in his book Secret Bookshelf (秘密の本棚) he and Caribu had a falling out. In the 1980s Ishikawa was publishing Chandora (ちゃんどら) in Big Comic Spirits and created a character named "Dr. Kaze" based on Marley Caribu's appearance. Years later in 1987 Ishikawa carried this character over into his new manga From K (フロムＫ) where he commented on Caribu frequently attending parties, becoming angry and leaving. He poked fun at the writer claiming he would "spin around in a tornado like Dr. Kaze" when he got drunk at parties before storming out. Ishikawa further stated that Caribu always claimed to dislike parties but would frequently come to them and then grow fussy and leave. Ishikawa said he had exaggerated the story for comedic effect, but that it had a lot of truth in it as well. Ishikawa would later discover that Caribu took a shot at him in his own manga, Meiso-ou Border (迷走王 ボーダー) by showing Ishikawa and fellow manga writer (and friend to Ishikawa and Caribu) Natsuo Sekikawa arriving at a party, behaving snobbishly, parading around in their underwear and growing jealous if one of their peers ever had a hit manga. Ishikawa states he was annoyed by Caribu's manga which he said was "humorless", however Sekikawa was furious. Ishikawa publicly sided with Sekikawa and Marley Caribu had to print an apology in the following issue of Manga Action (the magazine that published Meiso-ou Border). The row destroyed the friendship between Caribu and Ishikawa & Sekikawa. Jun Ishikawa stated on his Twitter that he regretted not making up with Marley Caribu after attending his funeral.
