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Here’s today’s quiz↓
Q. Which famous manga artist lived in the Imazu Ekimae Shopping Street?
a. Mitsuru Adachi（Touch）
b. Shigeru Mizuki（GeGeGe no Kitaro）
c. Fujiko Fujio（Doraemon）
d. Eiichiro Oda（One Piece）
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- a.あだち充（タッチ）22.2%(92票)
- b.水木しげる（ゲゲゲの鬼太郎）62.3%(258票)
- c.藤子不二雄（ドラエもん）7.5%(31票)
- d.尾田栄一郎（ワンピース）8%(33票)
The photo shows Hanshin Imazu Station
The photo shows the arcade of Imazu Ekimae Shopping Street
The correct answer is b. Shigeru Mizuki.
Around Showa 30, there was an alley where a pachinko parlor now stands, and manga artist Shigeru Mizuki lived further back in that area. He depicted scenes from that time in his art books and manga.
Source: Nishinomiya no Konjaku, p.118
A streetlight in Imazu Shopping Street
One of the streetlights in Imazu Ekimae Shopping Street is marked GeGeGe no Kitaro: Former Site of Shigeru Mizuki’s Residence.
Here it is on the map↓↓
To think that Shigeru Mizuki, famous for GeGeGe no Kitaro, once lived in Nishinomiya! I had no idea
On the other side of this streetlight, there was a mahjong house called Fujiko-chan (^_^)
With GeGeGe no Kitaro and Lupin the Third, it kind of feels like a little anime road.
