Download or read book Beautiful Fighting Girl written by Tamaki Saitō and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.
Download or read book Love on the Other Side A Nagabe Short Story Collection written by Nagabe and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love comes in many forms. A magnificent bird comforts a struggling girl; a vampire waltzes with a young lady at night; a blind girl lives with a monster of whom there is more than meets the eye. This six-story manga collection by masterful manga creator Nagabe explores fascinating relationships that refuse to be confined.
Download or read book Anime Girl Coloring Book For Adults written by Sora Illustrations and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love coloring books as much as you love anime girls? If so, then you may be in the right place. As an effort to please to anime fans and meet their artistic needs, we've compiled the Anime Girl Coloring Book for Adults. Combining fantasy and adventure with sexual art, this book is sure to rock your imagination. In this book you will find: Large and beautiful 8"x10" coloring pages with over 39 unique designs. Sexy and lustful coloring pages depicting anime girls of all shapes and sizes. Neat and sturdy paper perfect for your coloring needs. Pages printed only on one side to prevent bleed-through. Captivating designs that are perfect for adults looking to relax and unwind. Ready to let your imagination run wild? If so, click the 'add to cart' button and get your copy today!
Download or read book Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan written by Patrick W. Galbraith and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.
Download or read book The Girl I Want is So Handsome The Complete Manga Collection written by Yuama and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yuri comedy about a hyper first-year student and the hot girl jock she’s crushing on by the creator of The Summer You Were There! First-year high schooler Hina falls head over heels in love at her first glimpse of Shiki, a gorgeous, cool older girl with mad basketball skills. But when she tries to confess her feelings, she ends up as the basketball team’s manager instead. It seems like a huge blunder until she realizes it’s the perfect chance to get to know Shiki better. Will Hina and Shiki overcome their comical misunderstandings and realize they’re the perfect couple? Read the whole hilarious story in one omnibus volume!
Download or read book The Girl From the Other Side Si il A R n Vol 1 written by Nagabe and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethereal fantasy from the editorial team behind the New York Times bestselling series The Ancient Magus’ Bride The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún is an all-new manga series that pulls readers into a magical and enchanting tale about a young girl and her demonic guardian. A haunting story of love and fantastical creatures, The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún is a gorgeously-illustrated manga series. Each volume in the series will be released with a beautifully-textured matte finish cover and will include at least one full-color insert.In a world split between the Inside and the Outside, those living in both realms are told never to cross over to the other side, lest they be cursed. A young girl named Shiva lives on the other side, in a vacant village with a demonic guardian known only as “Teacher.” Although the two are forbidden to touch, they seem to share a bond that transcends their disparate appearances. But when Shiva leaves Teacher’s care to seek out her grandmother, the secret behind her mysterious living arrangement comes to light.
Download or read book Boys Love Manga and Beyond written by Mark McLelland and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.
Download or read book Sh jo Across Media written by Jaqueline Berndt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century—discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology—this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.
Download or read book I m Looking for Serious Love written by Shoko Rakuta and published by Love X Love. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in the countryside, Kyouhei immediately clashes with his next door neighbor, an outgoing playboy called Takara, when he moves to Tokyo. As someone who's always been teased for being a country bumpkin, he doesn't exactly have much in common with an extoverted city boy. But when Takara makes a move on him one day, Kyouhei can't get it out of his mind. Even though he can barely stand Takara, he can't help finding himself strangely drawn to him. But Kyouhei's not looking for a one night stand; he's looking for serious love!
Download or read book We Rule the Night written by Claire Eliza Bartlett and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight -- for their country and for themselves -- in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity. Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and imprisoned. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Linné defied her father, a Union general, and disguised herself as a boy to join the army. They're both offered a reprieve from punishment if they use their magic in a special women's military flight unit and undertake terrifying, deadly missions under cover of darkness. Revna and Linné can hardly stand to be in the same cockpit, but if they can't fly together, and if they can't find a way to fly well, the enemy's superior firepower will destroy them -- if they don't destroy each other first. We Rule the Night is a fiercely compelling story about sacrifice, complicated friendships, and survival against impossible odds.
Download or read book An Arrow to the Moon written by Emily X.R. Pan and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romeo and Juliet meets Chinese mythology in this magical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After. Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the strange new boy in her class, the arrival of unearthly fireflies, and an ominous crack spreading across the town of Fairbridge. As Hunter and Luna navigate their families’ enmity and secrets, everything around them begins to fall apart. All they can depend on is their love…but time is running out, and fate will have its way. An Arrow to the Moon, Emily X.R. Pan’s brilliant and ethereal follow-up to The Astonishing Color of After, is a story about family, love, and the magic and mystery of the moon that connects us all.
Download or read book Love s Work written by Gillian Rose and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.
Download or read book The Art of Street Fighter Hardcover Edition written by Capcom and published by Udon Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of fighting games gets the ultimate art book with The Art of Street Fighter(TM), collecting over 25 years of classic Street Fighter artwork! Covering the eras of Street Fighter I, II, III, IV, and Alpha, this 448-page behemoth of a book collects pin-ups, character designs, crossover artwork, rare sketches, tribute art, interviews and creator commentary.
Download or read book Just a Girl Who Loves Anime and Sketching Drawing Art Gift written by Anime Girl and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super cute notebook with a cool anime girl and the quote "I Love Anime" on the cover. Great notebook for school or private use. Use it as a diary, notepad for sketching and writing or anything else.
Download or read book Anime Sketchbook written by Anime Sketchbook and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sketchbook series is designed for anyone who loves to doodle, draw, sketch, color, or create anime! This book will provide hours of sketching fun. The Anime Sketchbook series is the perfect canvas for improving your drawing skills. Our sketchbooks are sized at 8 1/2 x 11. The popular cover has a beautiful finish and is perfect for school, home or work. You can use pens, pencils, markers, paint, and crayons. Grab one for yourself or a few to pass out at the next anime convention.
Download or read book How to Draw Anime written by Aimi Aikawa and published by Activity Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn how to draw anime characters in an easy, step-by-step way? Looking for the best guidebook to teach you the essential skills you need to bring your characters to life? Then this book is for you! Inside this brilliant drawing book, you'll uncover everything you need to know about creating the perfect anime character. Covering heads, facial features, body proportions, emotions, clothing, and even basic character models for you to try, this book is the perfect way for you to get started with the world of anime! Great for all skill levels, now even a complete beginner can learn to draw with ease. Plus, drawing is also scientifically proven to help you unlock your inner creativity, promote mindfulness and relaxation, and help you destress and relieve anxiety. A great gift for anime fans of all ages, it's also a wonderful skill for passing the time when you're stuck indoors. Book details: Ideal for all ages and skill levels A great activity for passing the time and providing hours of fun Step-by-step instructions designed to make learning to draw simple! Covers heads, facial features, posture, proportions, emotions, clothing and more Makes the perfect gift for birthdays, stocking stuffers and holidays Promotes creativity, artistic ambition, mindfulness, stress relief and more So if you're looking for a fun, simple and step-by-step way of learning to draw anime characters, then you've come to the right place!
Download or read book Anime Explosion written by Patrick Drazen and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best overviews of the anime phenomenon, its history and cultural significance, ideal for surveys and in-depth study.
