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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
January 06 2009 22:50 GMT
#1
Written by Ooba Tsugumi
Drawn by Obata Takeshi

There have always been rumors that Ooba Tsugumi is Gamou Hiroshi, the author of the comedy manga "Lucky Man"


   OOBATUGUMI
    /\
GAMOU OBATA


Anagram.


***
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-06 23:10:34
January 06 2009 23:04 GMT
#2
Is this one of those crazy conspiracy theories or is there actually some reason he would want to hide his identity?

Like maybe he's afraid the secret service will track him for writing a story about a mass murderer.
Or he's hugely unpopular with the target audience because he has a big nose.
Or he's really superstitious, actually a woman and lives on mars.
No I'm never serious.
CapO
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1615 Posts
January 06 2009 23:07 GMT
#3
what?
SNSD fan
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
January 06 2009 23:13 GMT
#4
you mean Tsugumi Ohba?
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
Ecael
Profile Joined February 2008
United States6703 Posts
January 06 2009 23:17 GMT
#5
In terms of it actually getting written out it might even look like Oba, though the Japanese have taken a liking of using h to denote the long o, and stop putting the Western order of first/last names in everything.
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
January 06 2009 23:22 GMT
#6
On January 07 2009 08:17 Ecael wrote:
In terms of it actually getting written out it might even look like Oba, though the Japanese have taken a liking of using h to denote the long o, and stop putting the Western order of first/last names in everything.


que
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-06 23:25:48
January 06 2009 23:22 GMT
#7
On January 07 2009 07:50 thedeadhaji wrote:
Written by Ooba Tsugumi
Drawn by Obata Takeshi

There have always been rumors that Ooba Tsugumi is Gamou Hiroshi, the author of the comedy manga "Lucky Man"


   OOBATUGUMI
    /\
GAMOU OBATA


Anagram.


oh wow
never heard of lucky man though :O

is it just me or does one of those names have three 'a's and the other name only one?
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
ManBearPig
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Belgium207 Posts
January 06 2009 23:26 GMT
#8
The S in Tsugumi was conveniently left out
s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
January 06 2009 23:36 GMT
#9
Death Note is such a crapy movie, that he needs anagrams so he can make other stuff.
I am not good with quotes
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
January 06 2009 23:47 GMT
#10
On January 07 2009 08:26 ManBearPig wrote:
The S in Tsugumi was conveniently left out


tsu is sometimes (but pretty rarely) romanized Tu.

ta chi tsu te to
ta ti tu te to
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
fanta[Rn]
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Japan2465 Posts
January 06 2009 23:48 GMT
#11
Death Note is a pretty decent anime though, you should look into that rather than into the movie
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
January 06 2009 23:58 GMT
#12
Gamou Hiroshi had always written comedy stuff he the rationale is that he couldnt use his actual pen name to write a very serious and brainy series and have the audience take it seriously.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
January 07 2009 00:05 GMT
#13
If it is a different genre it makes sense. If you are going to do something that your usual audience may not like, you might want to just 'smurf' so that they don't connect it with you.
CommanderFluffy
Profile Joined June 2008
Taiwan1059 Posts
January 07 2009 00:48 GMT
#14
oh damn, hella nice observation. blocks have been shat.
Pain is temporary, but glory is forever.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
January 07 2009 00:53 GMT
#15
I should clarify further than his brand of comedy was along the lines of really stupid / outrageous stuff, saying "completely opposite of death note" doesn't even do it justice.
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
January 07 2009 01:01 GMT
#16
He must be a pretty good writer.
No I'm never serious.
jodogohoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada2533 Posts
January 07 2009 01:19 GMT
#17
manga guys, manga.
The anime was fine though.
Narrator
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States868 Posts
January 07 2009 01:54 GMT
#18
Hmm, I gotta really read that Death Note manga.

Gonna check this one out too. It sounds interesting with that anagram thing. o_O
Kupon3ss
Profile Joined May 2008
時の回廊10066 Posts
January 07 2009 02:59 GMT
#19
anagrams don't make sense when one goes from Asian to Romantic languages since each "character" in Asian languages become syllables and not individual letters, which can't really be rearranged the way it is in English
When in doubt, just believe in yourself and press buttons
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-07 03:20:28
January 07 2009 03:19 GMT
#20
About the missing "s" and whatnot, the first names I spelled out are the ones I wrote out off the top of my head, japanese ppel blow at english so it's completely conceivable that they didnt romanize perfectly when coming up with the anagram.

Honestly I dont see how this can be coincidence hahaha considering there's enough evidence to suggest that Ohba is indeed Gamou, esp b/c they showed teh rough draft from the duo's new series on the magazine or something and Ohba's rough drawings are IDENTICAL to gamou's style (some pple are going "it would be epic if Ohba were just trying to completely fool us with this LOL)

rough draft by Ohba
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rough draft by Obata
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final ver by Obata
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