Download or read book Harvey and Etsuko s Manga Guide to Japan written by and published by Japanime Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces young readers to Japan by using a cartoon mouse from Manhattan and a cartoon cat from Tokyo.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Manga written by Jason S. Yadao and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Manga is the ultimate handbook offering a comprehensive overview of one of the most fashionable genre's in today's popular culture. The guide features the manga story: from manga's twelfth-century roots to the rise of English-language manga with profiles of influential creators like Leiji Matsumoto and CLAMP as well as publishers to look out for. You'll find an overview of manga's unique styles, techniques and genres decoded as well as a canon of fifty must-read manga, including the iconic Astro Boy, global hits Fruits Basket and Battle Royale, plus less well-known works like Please Save My Earth. The Rough Guide to Manga demystifies unfamiliar terms and genres for newcomers whilst offering manga fans plenty of new recommendations including listings for manga magazines and websites along with a glossary of terms. Crammed with illustrations, and including a section on the anime connection, this is must-have Manga for beginners and enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book A Manga Lover s Tokyo Travel Guide written by Evangeline Neo and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner** For fans of Japanese manga and anime, a trip to Tokyo is an absolute must! In this captivating Tokyo travel guide, manga artist and author Evangeline Neo travels to the Japanese capital with her mascots Kopi the dog and Matcha the cat in tow, bringing you to all the otaku sights this city has to offer. She shows you where to shop for manga memorabilia in Akihabara and Nakano, takes you on a tour of famous anime and manga museums like Studio Ghibli and Sanrio Puroland, and shares her experiences at a cosplay studio, a maid and butler cafe, and a manga drawing class. In addition to manga and anime-related adventures, Eva brings readers to all the must-see Tokyo sites as well--from Asakusa's Sensoji Temple to Tokyo Tower and the Meiji Shrine. She also introduces travelers to sushi train restaurants, hot spring baths and a kimono makeover session--even a day trip to Mt. Fuji! Along the way, she shows you all her favorite places to shop and eat, and gives advice on what to pack, what to buy, how to get around, and even how to speak a few words of survival Japanese. This manga guide to Tokyo is depicted in charming and humorous drawings and stories, which are as enjoyable for armchair travelers as they are practically useful for visitors to the city. Step into the world of modern Japanese culture through this amusing and unique guide to one of the world's top cities.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kana de Manga Special Edition Japanese Sound FX written by Glenn Kardy and published by Manga University. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains illustrated examples of nearly 200 Japanese sound effect words (aka onomatopoeia) that are often used by Japanese manga artists. Includes English translations.
Download or read book written by Glenn Kardy and published by Manga University. This book was released on 2008 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic illustrations and text introduce Japanese idioms and expressions which are written with four kanji characters.
Download or read book Japanese Animation written by Masao Yokota and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding the subject of Japanese animation but also shows ways to research, teach, and more fully explore this multidimensional world. Presented in six sections, the translated essays cross-reference each other. The collection adopts a wide range of critical, historical, practical, and experimental approaches. This variety provides a creative and fascinating edge for both specialist and nonspecialist readers. Contributors’ works share a common relevance, interest, and involvement despite their regional considerations and the different modes of analysis demonstrated. They form a composite of teaching and research ideas on Japanese animation.
Download or read book Kana de Manga Special Edition Shortcuts written by Glenn Kardy and published by Manga University. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much Japanese do you know? Probably a whole lot more than you think, even if you've barely studied the language ... or haven't tried to at all! Japanese is rich in vocabulary borrowed from other languages, especially English. These loanwords offer you a little shortcut on the long road toward mastery of the language. And many of the words have been turned into simple abbreviations, contractions, and acronyms, which makes them even easier to memorize. For instance, we watch anime (animation), shop at the depato (department store), send text messages on our sumaho (smartphone), and listen to BGM (background music) while studying. This Kana de Manga special edition features nearly 200 abbreviations, contractions, and acronyms. Studying these shortcuts is a fun and easy way to jump-start your Japanese!
Download or read book Manga written by Toni Johnson-Woods and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, providing a definitive, one-stop Manga resource.
Download or read book The Selfish Demon King written by Kyoko Wakatsuki and published by Digital Manga, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shizuku is an adorable and spunky high school student, but even he doesn't know the secret he's hiding. When Shizuku comes home from school one day, he's met by a stunningly beautiful man. This paragon of exquisite beauty, Doga, tells Shizuku that the Shizuku's true nature is that of a sexual mage. Doga is actually the king of the magical realm and that once every hundred years, right at the cusp of mating season, he has to take a sexual mage as his lover... What is Shizuku to do?!
Download or read book The Manga Cookbook written by Yoko Ishihara and published by Japanime Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step instructions for making more than two dozen Japanese appetizers, basic dishes, main courses, and sweets that one might see in a manga; shows how to use chopsticks and assemble bento boxed lunches; and features manga-style illustrations.
Download or read book Your Name written by Makoto Shinkai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fates intentions are never clear ... After months of swapping bodies with Mitsuha, Taki remains suddenly fixed in his own. Unable to shake the lingering impressions of a remote town he's never been to and a girl he's never seen, Taki sets off to find Mitsuha's village in the mountains. With only a few landscape sketched drawn from memory to guide his search, Taki's goal seems impossible. However, his journey leads him to a reality more impossible than anything he could have imagined ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Samurai Confidential written by Ryuto Kanzaki and published by Manga University. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed storyteller and manga artist Ryuto Kanzaki makes her English-language debut with Samurai Confidential, a sweeping pictorial that showcases the private, often complex lives of Japan's most famous samurai warriors. More that just a lavish picture book, though, Samurai Confidential is rich with nuggets of information not normally found in mainstream history books. The book delves into the backgrounds of Japan's most renowned warriors, many of whom served as scholars, musicians, painters and poets when they were not busy on the battlefield. From the Tokugawa shogunate to the final days of Edo, from Kenshin to Ieyasu to Musashi, Samurai Confidential has all of its bushi bases covered.
Download or read book Black Passenger Yellow Cabs written by Stefhen F. D. Bryan and published by . This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black Passenger Yellow Cabs" is an erotic auto/ethnographic memoir exploring in easy layperson's terms the socio-psycho-sexual dynamics of Japan and the erotic capital of the Western male. It offers an exploration of deviant behavior in an exotic land and a journey from self-destruction to self-actualization.
Download or read book Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas written by Fred Ladd and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first generation of American television programmers had few choices of Saturday morning children's offerings. That changed dramatically in 1963 when a Japanese animated television series called Tetsuan Atom was acquired for distribution by NBC. Fred Ladd adapted the show for American television and--rechristened Astro Boy--it was an overnight sensation. Astro Boy's popularity sparked a new industry importing animated television from Japan. Ladd went on to adapt numerous Japanese animated imports, and here provides an insider's view of the creation of an ongoing cultural and media phenomenon.
Download or read book The Manga Cookbook Japanese Bento Boxes Main Dishes and More written by The Manga University Culinary Institute and published by Manga University. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western kitchen. Learn to identify and make the same things you see in all your favorite manga: authentic onigiri (rice balls), yakitori (skewered chicken), oshinko (pickled vegetables), udon (Japanese noodles), okonomiyaki (Japanese-style pizza) and many others! Includes sections on how to assemble bento boxed lunches and properly use chopsticks. Features original manga illustrations by Chihiro Hattori.
Download or read book Blood on the Tracks 1 written by Shuzo Oshimi and published by Vertical Inc. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator who brought you notable works such as The Flowers of Evil, Happiness, and Inside Mari, comes a new suspense drama centering on the theme of a toxic parent. Dive into this latest thriller by master storyteller, Shuzo Oshimi. Seiichi's mother loves him very much, and his days pass with placid regularity. School, friends, even the attention of his attractive classmate Fukiishi. Until one terrible summer day, that all changes... Shuzo Oshimi (The Flowers of Evil) delivers his most unsettling work yet, the tale of a seemingly normal family suddenly swallowed up by the creeping horror of everyday life. Gorgeous art and an understated script only serve to heighten the tension as we watch Seiichi Osabe's life spiral into nightmare.
