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 Anime Impact written by Chris Stuckmann and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of anime’s masterpieces and game-changers from the 1960s to the present—with contributions from writers, artists, superfans and more. Anime—or Japanese animation—has been popular in Japan since Astro Boy appeared in 1963. Subsequent titles like Speed Racer and Kimba the White Lion helped spread the fandom across the country. In America, a dedicated underground fandom grew through the 80s and 90s, with breakthrough titles like Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira making their way into the mainstream. Anime Impact explores the iconic anime movies and shows that left a mark on popular culture around the world. Film critic and longtime fan Chris Stuckmann takes readers behind the scenes of legendary titles as well as hidden gems rarely seen outside Japan. Plus anime creators, critics and enthusiasts—including Ready Player One author Ernest Cline, manga artist Mark Crilley, and YouTube star Tristan “Arkada” Gallant—share their stories, insights and insider perspectives.

Download or read book The Jazz written by Melissa Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melissa Scott, winner of the John W. Campbell Award, twice winner of the Lambda Award for best novel, and author of the cyberpunk classic, Trouble and Her Friends, returns with a hip novel of the media-dominated future, when the internet is filled with Jazz: intentional misinformation and bewildering disinformation that are both an artform and a business. Tin Lizzy, a respected Jazz artist with a checkered past, is a theatrical Web site designer who does backgrounds for Jazz productions. When a nifty new script shows up on the web, Lizzy is surprised to learn it came from a teenage boy named Keyz. It turns out Keyz used his parents' access codes to borrow a Hollywood studio's editing program- the true, hidden source of the studio's success. Now the studio head wants to lock him in jail and throw away the key. So Lizzy rescues him and takes him on the road, across the altered landscape of twenty-first century USA, trying to stay one step ahead of the police . . . . and the vengeance of a megalomaniac CEO. The Jazz is a road chase novel of the future, filled with shady characters, close calls, and colorful neat ideas. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Gaby The Anime Days written by Madeline Bell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drew is just an ordinary thirteen year old. Well perhaps not that ordinary. The girls challenge him to wear an anime costume to the Easter dance, however they forgot to mention that he'd be going as a girl! Enter Gaby! First it was his friends, then it's his family - everyone seems to want Gaby around except Drew. And when perfect strangers think he's a girl, well the lad's got problems! Can he 'kill' Gaby? Or will he get dragged ever deeper into girldom? Every copy of Gaby will help support kids with gender issues through the Mermaids charity. 2nd Edition with revisions.

Download or read book Love from the Heavens written by Boris Utan and published by Sante Boyer. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction/Crime that follows one woman's journey to save others like her. The culture and family principals that do not favor woman as equal to man. Highlighting restrictions that expose a woman to exploitation. The reason that this is a MUST READ book. Understanding why and how life is not that simple for a woman. The novel portrays the struggle of Latecia, a young woman who tries to make it in a male dominant circle. She was raised in an abusive household and has mentally suffered throughout her adolescent life. Her life was filled with a whirlwind of events that has changed her core. She ventures out to find peace in life but was caught in situations that could jeopardize her whole future. Will she emerge from the dark side, or will she drown in the pit of despair without any lifeline nor a single hope?

Download or read book The Anime Encyclopedia 3rd Revised Edition written by Jonathan Clements and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 2372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive—The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work."—Neil Gaiman Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over one million words. . . This third edition of the landmark reference work has six additional years of information on Japanese animation, its practitioners and products, plus incisive thematic entries on anime history and culture. With credits, links, cross-references, and content advisories for parents and libraries. Jonathan Clements has been an editor of Manga Max and a contributing editor of Newtype USA. Helen McCarthy was founding editor of Anime UK and editor of Manga Mania.

Download or read book Cinema Anime written by Steven T. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological monstrosity, and apocalyptic fantasies of the end of history. The contributors dismantle the distinction between 'high' and 'low' culture and offer compelling arguments for the value and importance of the study of animé and popular culture as a key link in the translation from the local to the global.

Download or read book Erica s Lesbian Love Stores Vol 1 written by Erica Crooks and published by Erica Crooks. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Erica Crooks the satirical mastermind behind The Eric Crooks Show and webmaster behind officialericcrooks.com comes a collection of short romantic Lesbian love stores from Butch and Femme couples, Butch and Transwoman Femme and even Femme and Femme couples.

Download or read book Beautiful Fighting Girl written by Saito Tamaki and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Saitō, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces she inhabits. As an object of desire for male otaku (obsessive fans of anime and manga), she saturates these worlds with meaning even as her fictional status demands her ceaseless proliferation and reproduction. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Saitō understands the otaku’s ability to eroticize and even fall in love with the beautiful fighting girl not as a sign of immaturity or maladaptation but as a result of a heightened sensitivity to the multiple layers of mediation and fictional context that constitute life in our hypermediated world—a logical outcome of the media they consume. Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque imagination Saitō sees as an important antecedent of otaku culture, Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture. Now available in English for the first time, this book will spark new debates about the role played by desire in the production and consumption of popular culture.

Download or read book Merman in my Tub Vol 5 written by Itokichi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handsome merman named Wakasa is living with Tatsumi, a high school student--in his bathtub! Visits from wakasa's crazy friends Takasu the octopus, Agari the shark, Mikuni the jellyfish, and Maki the snail raise the chaos level even higher. As if that isn't crazy enough, now a super-sadistic crab wants to take Wakasa away! The first meeting between Wakasa and Tatsumi is also revealed in this volume of the frothy bathtub comedy!

Download or read book Being Japanese American written by Gil Asakawa and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of JA culture: facts, recipes, songs, words, and memories that every JA will want to share. From immigration to discrimination and internment, and then to reparations and a high rate of intermarriage, Americans of Japanese descent share a long and sometimes painful history, and now fear their unique culture is being lost. Gil Asakawa's celebration of what makes JAs so special is an entertaining blend of facts and features, of recipes, songs, and memories that every JA will want to share with friends and family. Included are interviews with famous JAs and a look at how it's hip to be Japanese, from manga to martial arts, plus a section on Japantown communities and tips for JA's scrapbooking their families and traveling to Japan to rediscover their roots.

Download or read book Anime and Manga written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Starcall Anthology 1 written by Bob Bello and published by Bob Bello. This book was released on 2011-12-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STARCALL Anthology of Novelized Radio Dramas and Teleplays, Vol. 1, illustrated by the author with Dramatis Personae (portraits of the main characters). Written in the tradition of The Outer Limits TV series, each "episode" (standalone story) is in its own genre: sci-fi, military fiction, space opera, mystery, suspense, action/adventure, cyberpunk, steampunk, romance, drama, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, supernatural, prehistory, alternate reality, time travel, etc. A little bit of everything for everyone, suitable for teens and adults alike.

Download or read book Invaders of the Rokujouma Volume 10 written by Takehaya and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koutarou and Clan are working their way back home from their interstellar adventure, but they have to make a pit stop about ten years off from their intended destination. As luck would have it, they encounter a young girl right after they land. Worried that she might have seen their spaceship in action, Koutarou decides to dig a little deeper. Things take an unexpected and heart-wrenching turn, however, when he realizes he has more in common with this girl than he initially thought.

Download or read book Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Vol 4 written by and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer vacation has arrived, so Masachika and Alya get to spend some time together away from the hubbub of school. However...studying at Masachika’s place is the only thing they’ve been doing! Alya takes it upon herself to teach Masachika how to treat a woman, but once those two get into it, neither is willing to back down. Summer break also means they’re going on the student council’s trip to the beach! Swimsuits baring skin, dips in the hot spring, and a game of King really heat things up! But what will happen when certain secrets slip?

Download or read book The Elusive written by Nicholas Frost and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Sally Bang charts an unruly anti-heroine’s coming of age, and a ghost writer’s need to possess her. At sixteen there’s insight and beauty that never come again, and within every adult is a wish to get it back. What is gained and lost with growing up, and whose story is it anyway? Commitment ensnares a standoffish narrator in relationship dilemmas, in a psychologic navel-gaze in cliffhanger style on the elusive as romance, the tango of intimacy and distance, conformism and the irrational. In Search of Francesca Mars exposes an artist’s vision of a self-immolating media star who tilts at strange liberation, who toys with all who need to put her on a pedestal or drag her down. A close-skinned portrayal of ambition and use, the politics of giving, glamour and ugliness, the artifice of art, the problem of value. Innocence asks, who doesn’t want innocence, no matter how obtuse the path? Dancer Libby Castro submits to demanding and needy people: husband, employer, spiritual mentor, analyst. Yet beyond insouciant roles and lazy vacancies she’ll be no-one’s shadow: a straw, a girl unmarked, woman alone…

Download or read book Cosplay Crime written by Marty Chan and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Selling Points Shy thirteen-year-old Bree steps out of her comfort zone to investigate a theft at an anime convention. This story explores themes of friendship, overcoming fears and following one’s passions. The main character’s best friend identifies as female and nonbinary, but this is incidental to the storyline. In recent years, anime and cosplay have exploded in global popularity and have become part of mainstream culture. This book will appeal to both devoted fans and newcomers curious about this community. This is another fun, heartfelt story by Marty Chan with great comedic elements. Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.