Download or read book Doujin Work written by Hiroyuki and published by Media Blasters. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Japan in 2006 by Houbunsha, Tokyo"-- Colophon.
Download or read book Dojin Work written by Hiroyuki and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not easy drawing Dojin manga to make money on the side, and that's exactly what Najimi is learning-- and she's not alone. There are literally thousands of artists trying to make a buck, and many of them suck just as bad as Najimi. Enter Kaneru a rival artist who's deluded enough to think she's better than Najimi-- unfortunately she's awful too. They have to find a way to bring attention to their books-- but what could possibly draw the Otaku in?
Download or read book Dojin Work written by Hiroyuki and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dojin Work Volume 2 written by Hiroyuki and published by Media Blasters. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not easy drawing Dojin manga to make money on the side, and that's exactly what Najimi is learning-- and she's not alone. There are literally thousands of artists trying to make a buck, and many of them suck just as bad as Najimi. Enter Kaneru a rival artist who's deluded enough to think she's better than Najimi-- unfortunately she's awful too. They have to find a way to bring attention to their books-- but what could possibly draw the Otaku in?
Download or read book Fandom Unbound written by Mizuko Ito and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan s major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan s identity at home and abroad. In the American context, the word otaku is best translated as geek an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres, including anime, manga, and video games. Most important of all, as this collection shows, is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content. In this collection of essays, Japanese and American scholars offer richly detailed descriptions of how this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture created its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction, comics, costumes, and remixes, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media. By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, this groundbreaking collection provides fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age."
Download or read book A Sister s All You Need Vol 14 light novel written by Yomi Hirasaka and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if they have a breakout as an author, marry the girl they love, and become a dad, people can’t change their stripes that easily (especially if they write novels for a living)—Itsuki Hashima is still writing and as wild as ever. Meanwhile, as his wife lovingly watches over him, his little sister Chihiro is growing increasingly tired of her unrequited love. Itsuki, Chihiro, Miyako, Haruto, Nayuta, Ashley, Kaizu, Kaiko, Setsuna, Nadeshiko—they’ve all changed (or not changed) to varying degrees over time, but what does the future have in store for them? The popular romcom ensemble series reaches its conclusion!
Download or read book Global Manga written by Casey Brienza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as ’fake manga’, represent an important but understudied global cultural phenomenon which, controversially, may even point to a future of ’Japanese’ comics without Japan. This book takes seriously the political economy and cultural production of this so-called ’global manga’ produced throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia and explores the conditions under which it arises and flourishes; what counts as ’manga’ and who gets to decide; the implications of global manga for contemporary economies of cultural and creative labour; the ways in which it is shaped by or mixes with local cultural forms and contexts; and, ultimately, what it means for manga to be ’authentically’ Japanese in the first place. Presenting new empirical research on the production of global manga culture from scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as first person pieces and historical overviews written by global manga artists and industry insiders, Global Manga will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, Japanese studies, and popular and visual culture.
Download or read book Reading Japan Cool written by John E. Ingulsrud and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga—Japanese comics—which since the mid-1940s have developed in an exponential way. In spite of a gradual decline in readership, manga still commands over a third of the publishing output. The volume of manga works that is being produced and has been through history is enormous. There are manga publications that attract readers of all ages and genders. The diversity in content attracts readers well into adulthood. Surveys on reading practices have found that almost all Japanese people read manga or have done so at some point in their lives. The skills of reading manga are learned by readers themselves, but learned in the context of other readers and in tandem with school learning. Manga reading practices are sustained by the practices of other readers, and manga content therefore serves as a topic of conversation for both families and friends. Moreover, manga is one of the largest sources of content for media production in film, television, and video games. Manga literacy, the practices of the readers, the diversity of titles, and the sheer number of works provide the basis for the movement recognized as Japan Cool. Reading Japan Cool is directed at an audience of students of Japanese studies, discourse analysts, educators, parents, and manga readers.
Download or read book Visions 2021 Illustrators Book written by pixiv Inc and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the "VISIONS" of 170 frontline illustrators. Compiled by pixiv, this artbook features the newest and best works of illustrators making a splash in the industry!
Download or read book A Sister s All You Need Vol 8 light novel written by Yomi Hirasaka and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IS THIS THE END FOR KENJIRO TOKI’S CAREER .. .?! It’s a new year, and the anime version of Itsuki’s All About My Little Sister is about to be announced...but when a bored Itsuki is poking around for mentions of himself online, he discovers a tweet revealing the anime adaptation ahead of schedule. Who broke the embargo? None other than Gift Publishing’s official website! The fallout destroys Ituski’s and the anime staff’s trust in GF Bunko— who will take responsibility, and how? And as Itsuki and Toki wrestle with the anime, Haruto, Miyako, and GF’s latest crop of new writers are busy with their own lives...
Download or read book Starting Out written by Kaiya Kokoro and published by SunCloud Design. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your complete anime persona takes account of your unique personality and appearance, and develops and accentuates those traits which have a natural place in an anime life. Your individual characteristics, aside from being developed in alignment with your "ideal" anime life, are also contrasted with a group of friends, each also committed to developing an anime lifestyle and persona. Together, individual similarities and differences help create a dynamic and fun group environment. And since no anime lifestyle is complete without some exciting plot-line, the group is put into action going on adventures, working on projects, and achieving goals together. In chapter 1, you will take several quizzes to help you determine what anime personality traits you have. This will help you find your niche among the friends who will take the anime dream to the next level, providing a context for your individual character to be fully realized. In chapter 2, you will learn how you can bring the anime dream to it’s ultimate manifestation by structuring your group around a Group Focus. The Group Focus serves as a kind of plot-line within which talents will be realized and adventures will be had. In chapter 3, you’ll learn how to plan exciting adventures. From fun afternoons to overnight trips - adventures of all sorts are discussed in detail, as well as how to make them affordable and safe. Chapter 4 discusses ways to add anime magic to holidays. In addition to traditional Western holidays that are also celebrated in Japan, common Japanese holidays, celebrated in Japan and in anime, will be discussed. We will review ways to incorporate those holidays in your life through small celebrations with your friends. Chapter 5 discusses group projects - activities that you and your friends can work on together such as making a group photo book, sewing costumes, and making anime style accessories. There is even a how-to guide for creating anime-like photos.
Download or read book Transnational Contexts of Culture Gender Class and Colonialism in Play written by Alexis Pulos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the local, regional and transnational contexts of video games through a focused analysis on gaming communities, the ways game design regulates gender and class relations, and the impacts of colonization on game design. The critical interest in games as a cultural artifact is covered by a wide range of interdisciplinary work. To highlight the social impacts of games the first section of the book covers the systems built around high score game competitions, the development of independent game design communities, and the formation of fan communities and cosplay. The second section of the book offers a deeper analysis of game structures, gender and masculinity, and the economic constraints of empire that are built into game design. The final section offers a macro perspective on transnational and colonial discourses built into the cultural structures of East Asian game play.
Download or read book From Star Strings written by Akihito Tsukushi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Made in Abyss, bestselling creator Akihito Tsukushi took you deep into the earth. Now, in this riveting manga, he recounts the tale of an epic journey into the sky--and far, far beyond. When Kororu, a little girl living alone on a distant planet, finds a mysterious string hanging from the sky, she's left with just one choice: to climb it. Where does the string lead? And will she survive the journey to the other end?
Download or read book Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture written by Ashley Pearson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokémon; the ecological justice of Nausicaä; Shinto’s focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Di Gi Charat Theater Dejiko s Summer Vacation written by Koge Donbo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects stories featuring the cat-eared, alien hybrid princess Dejiko, who despite having to work at the Gamers anime store, still finds time to go to the beach and switch bodies with Rabi-en-Rose.
Download or read book Fashioning Japanese Subcultures written by Yuniya Kawamura and published by Berg. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically and stylistically defined, subcultures such as Lolita in Harajuku, Gyaru and Gyaru-o in Shibuya, Age-jo in Shinjuku, and Mori Girl in Kouenji, reflect the affiliation and identities of their members, and have often blurred the boundary between professionals and amateurs for models, photographers, merchandisers and designers. Based on insightful ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, Fashioning Japanese Subcultures is the first theoretical and analytical study on Japan's contemporary youth subcultures and their stylistic expressions. It is essential reading for students, scholars and anyone interested in fashion, sociology and subcultures.
Download or read book Atari to Zelda written by Mia Consalvo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross-cultural interactions of Japanese videogames and the West—from DIY localization by fans to corporate strategies of “Japaneseness.” In the early days of arcades and Nintendo, many players didn’t recognize Japanese games as coming from Japan; they were simply new and interesting games to play. But since then, fans, media, and the games industry have thought further about the “Japaneseness” of particular games. Game developers try to decide whether a game's Japaneseness is a selling point or stumbling block; critics try to determine what elements in a game express its Japaneseness—cultural motifs or technical markers. Games were “localized,” subjected to sociocultural and technical tinkering. In this book, Mia Consalvo looks at what happens when Japanese games travel outside Japan, and how they are played, thought about, and transformed by individuals, companies, and groups in the West. Consalvo begins with players, first exploring North American players’ interest in Japanese games (and Japanese culture in general) and then investigating players’ DIY localization of games, in the form of ROM hacking and fan translating. She analyzes several Japanese games released in North America and looks in detail at the Japanese game company Square Enix. She examines indie and corporate localization work, and the rise of the professional culture broker. Finally, she compares different approaches to Japaneseness in games sold in the West and considers how Japanese games have influenced Western games developers. Her account reveals surprising cross-cultural interactions between Japanese games and Western game developers and players, between Japaneseness and the market.
