Huffy Flounce

"Evacuation from Earth," "Tokyo 2061," "Artificial Sun in a World Without Night," "A Computer Manufacturing Human Beings." This book presents a collection of futuristic conceptual illustrations found in magazines for kids from the 1950s to the 1970s. During this period, most of the illustrated articles anticipating what life would be like in the 21st century were a nonsensical parade of daydream, fantasy, and wild flights of imagination.
The futuristic illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Gojin Ishihara, and other giants of science fantasy illustration contained in the book are grouped into six categories: everyday life, modes of transportation, robots, computers, space, and the end of the world. Articles regularly featured in kid's magazines that painted dramatic pictures of life in the 21st century fascinated the boys and girls of the Showa era. But because the magazines that carried these articles were mass consumed, they were easily lost or thrown away. Now most of them live only in the memories of their readers.
Now that we are the "people of the future" living in the real 21st century, let's travel back in time to the "lost 21st century" that the Showa era adults were so absorbed in creating - utopias full of hopes and dreams as well as doomed landscapes of deathtopias. The "Future" was what interested Showa kids more than anything else - it was the greatest source of excitement. We hope you will enjoy this treasure box filled with a legacy of fantastic imaginative creations.

Jubbers wrote: ↑September 19th, 2020, 4:17 pm We are watching The Rose of Versailles during dinner right now (neither Goiter or Jubboiter have seen before). It was quite fun, a few episodes into the Madame du Barry bits, explaining to Jubboiter what "selling one's body" and "prostitute" meant