このタイトルのワクワク感はどうでしょう。バカな男子にとって、声に出して読みたい日本語一位かもしれません。死ぬ前に心によぎる言葉がこれだったらどうしようと、へんな心配までしてしまいます。小学生の頃に床屋で読んで以来、ずっと気になっていました。大人になって周りの人に聞いてみても、誰も読んだことがある人はいなくて、不思議に思っていました。最近になってアマゾンで検索してみると、ありました。しかも意外と高値です。迷った末に、「購入する」をクリックしてしまいました。
How exhilarating the title of the book is. I guess this could be the best Japanese title for stupid boys to read out loud. I’m unnecessarily afraid that this might be the last word I remember on my deathbed. This manga has somehow stuck in my mind since I read it when I was in elementary school. I sometimes ask some people around me about the manga after I was grown up, but, to my surprise, I’ve never met anyone who read it. I searched Amazon for it recently and I found it being sold there. It was unexpectedly expensive. I hesitated for a while and finally clicked the ‘Place your order’ button.
主人公は、勉強もスポーツも苦手な落ちこぼれの少年、変珍太。家族からも馬鹿にされる珍太ですが、気持ちだけは人一倍優しい少年です。そんな珍太に、なぜか心を寄せているのが、クラスメイトのユカちゃん。朝ごはんを抜かれがちな珍太のためにサンドイッチまで作ってくれるのでした。そんな仲睦まじい2人を邪魔立てする一団がいます。全員が覆面を被った「デストロ団」です。2人と同じクラスの悪ガキどもですが、彼らにやられっぱなしで仕返しもできない珍太の意気地の無さに、ついにユカちゃんも愛想をつかします。学校でもやりたい放題、横暴を極めるデストロ団の魔の手が、ユカちゃんへと伸びたまさにそのとき、正義の味方が登場します。彼こそ、我らがヒーロー、へんちんポコイダーなのでした……。
The main character is a dropout kid called Hen Chinta, who is bad at both study and sports. Even his family members treat him like a fool but he really has a kind heart. He has a classmate who is a girl called Yuka and she somehow feels a slight affection for him. She even makes sandwiches for him because his mother sometimes doesn’t allow him to have breakfast as punishment. There is a group of bad boys who always try to interfere with the romance between the two. They are called ‘Destoro Dan’ and every one of them wear a mask. They are rascals in the same class as the two and Yuka is finally fed up with his cowardice because he can’t pay back for what they did to him. They are arrogant enough to do what they want to in school and they are finally about to bully Yuka, when a hero shows up. He is exactly the hero called Henchin Pokoider.
圧巻はポコイダーの変身シーンです。だけど変身の様子は恥ずかしくて書けません。1976年発表という、この作品の時代を感じるのは「デストロ団」の覆面とメンバーです。覆面は明らかに70年代に人気だった覆面レスラー、デストロイヤーのものがモチーフになっています。メンバーとして登場するバットねえちゃん、せんみつ博士というのは、どちらも当時の人気テレビ番組「うわさのチャンネル」に出演していたキャラのパロディに違いありません。この番組にはデストロイヤーさん、せんだみつおさん、そしてゴッドねえちゃんの愛称で和田アキ子さんが出演されていました。
The best part of this manga is the scene of transformation. However, it is too embarrassing to describe how he does. This manga book was released in 1976 and I find the characteristics of the time in the design of Destoro Dan’s masks and some members. The mask was a copy of the one used by a masked wrestler called Destroyer, who was very popular in the 70s. The two members, Bat nechan and Senmitsu hakase, are based on the characters who appeared in a popular TV program called ‘Uwasa no Channel’ at that time. Among the people who appeared in the TV programe were Destroyer, Senda Mitsuo, and Wada Akiko who were nicknamed as ‘God nechan’.
「デビルマン」「マジンガーZ」「キューティーハニー」など、錚々たるアニメ作品でも知られる永井豪さんですが、男子の心をザワつかせるこんな漫画も多く書いておられます。床屋にはそんな漫画が多かったと思うのは自分だけでしょうか。
Nagai Go, the manga artist, is well known by many masterpieces such as ‘Devil Man’, ‘Mazinger Z’, and ‘Cutie Honey’, and he also created the kind of manga like this which stir up boys’ heart. I’m not sure but I have the impression that barbers had such kinds of manga at that time.
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