Came across a ‘Yasutaka Tanaka’ reference while reading through Akiko Higashimura’s autobiographical manga “Kakukaku Shikajika” (Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey) (2012)
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P.S. - daydreaming below
Akiko-sensei earlier in the manga reflects upon the contrast between art-forms - oil painting & manga, viewing the latter as a “subtractive“ art-form. (2nd panel below)
This reminded me of Nakata’s interview with Perfume discussing about the style of music he was making during 2017, where he emphasized using a subtractive methodology in the final version of his tracks, for eg. “Tokyo Girl”
Interesting thing was that the song “Tokyo Girl” was used as the theme song for the drama “Tokyo Tarareba Girls” - which is the adaptation of the manga drawn by the same mangaka Akiko-sensei.
Found it interesting, that a subtractive track met up with Akiko-sensei’s subtractive art-form work.
