Download or read book A Sky Longing for Memories written by Makoto Shinkai and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sky Longing for Memories is a Makoto Shinkai fan's dream! Featuring art created by the beloved director, this full-color art book is packed with art from the many movies he directed for Studio CoMix Wave. The book is a 175 page LANDSCAPE FORMAT softcover, the majority of which are images, a rare treat in the realm of fanbooks. Inside you will find hundreds of backgrounds from from his award-winning works: 5 Centimeters per Second, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Voices of a Distant Star, and a TV advertisement for the Mainichi Newspaper. In addition to the backgrounds, there is a section about the software and technique behind CoMix Wave's animation, which discuss the key features of the software the studio has developed to use at various stages of production. The English edition also comes with a lengthy interview with Mr. Shinkai and other key members of his studio.

Download or read book Justice League Odyssey 2018 1 written by Joshua Williamson and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinning out of JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE! When a cosmic menace threatens worlds beyond our own in the Ghost Sector, it falls to a new Justice League team to answer the call to battle! Cyborg, Starfire, Green Lantern Jessica Cruz and an out-of-his-element Azrael head to deep space inside a commandeered Brainiac Skull Ship. But as these wildcard teammates try to stop Despero from slave-trading Coluan refugees, they discover something that nothing in the universe could have prepared them for: Darkseid...who says heÕs there to help?!

Download or read book My Brother s Best Friend written by Emilia Rose and published by Emilia Rose LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sneaking around with my brother’s best friend is the least of my worries… Haunted by my last heartbreak, I have sworn off my brother’s friends. They are nothing but trouble. Especially Alec Wolfe: heir to a billion-dollar fortune, high school hockey star, and my brother's best friend. I despise everything about him… that is until he sneaks into my bedroom during my brother's party and tangles me into a dangerous web of secrets and lies. Alec takes everything from me that night, including my heart. But as fate would have it, an ominous stalker, menacing threats, and sinister secrets threaten to tear us apart. Can our forbidden love survive the Redwood Elite? My Brother’s Best Friend is a standalone novel within the Bad Boys of Redwood Academy series. Join me in this spicy brother’s best friend romance filled with hockey, trauma, and secrets.

Download or read book Coffee Life in Japan written by Merry White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.

Download or read book Anime and the Visual Novel written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the thematic and structural traits of a recent and popular development within the realm of anime: series adapted from visual novels. Visual novels are interactive fiction games in which players creatively control decisions and plot turning points. Endings alter according to the player's choices, providing a motivation to replay the game and opt for alternative decisions each time. Pictorial sumptuousness, plot depth and subtle characterization are vital aspects of the medium. Anime based on visual novels capitalizes on the parent games' attributes, yielding thought-provoking yarns and complex personalities.

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 STOP SIMPIN IN CYBERSPACE written by Shawn James and published by Shawn James. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a Cyber Simp? A Cyber Simp is a guy who spends his time online pandering to women on the Internet such as Instagram models, cam girls, cosplayers, and e-girls in the hopes of winning them over. In this book men will learn why chasing these female predators online by dropping direct messages and donations through superchats and Ca$happ to get their attention is a waste of their time and all the tricks they use in their trade to enrich themselves at their expense.

Download or read book A Sister s All You Need Vol 6 light novel written by Yomi Hirasaka and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nayuta Kani gets serious.Itsuki and his friends want to believe they would never let confessions of love affect their relationships with one another. But beneath the surface, confessions change everything...Matters of the heart can alter the flow of a story, sweeping other characters up in the tide. Itsuki’s anime project is also making waves, but rather than add a refreshing twist to his life, it threatens to swallow him whole. Meanwhile, on a distant shore, Puriketsu continues his search for the girl with the “ass of the millennium.” Little does he know that a new development is about to flood his well of inspiration...!

Download or read book That s My Atypical Girl 1 written by Renji Morita and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yokoi is a manga artist who spends his nights delivering newspapers just to make rent, since his original works just don’t seem to sell. Suddenly, one day he gets a visit from Saito-san, a self-proclaimed fan of Yokoi's work who made the long journey to meet him. Yokoi quickly realizes that the things Saito-san sees, feels, and thinks about are different from most people… These two struggle together to find a place to belong in this unique slice-of-life!

Download or read book Armys Ocean written by Sundus Rashid and published by jec publication. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armys all around the world say that they never found BTS instead BTS found them when they needed someone to comfort them in life's hardships. For every Army entering this fandom was a journey they'd never forget about. This book "ARMYS' OCEAN" chronicles the journey of 50 such Armys along with the two compilers of how they became Armys.The book is filled with emotions and experiences that are not heard of before. Armys all around the world not just consider themselves as armys but also as a huge family . The name ARMYS' OCEAN itself signifies the droplets (armys) collectively forming the ocean. In this book you'll find out why ARMYS say that BTS found them. Whether it may be the comfort they got from BTS or the inspiration or one of the million things that we're getting from each other. The book ultimately will let you know why these people chose BTS over anything else and how they embarked upon this decision...

Download or read book Moe Manifesto written by Patrick W. Galbraith and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moe is a huge cultural phenomenon and one of the driving forces behind the enormous success of Japanese anime and manga--not just in Japan but now throughout the world. In Japan, avid fans of manga comics, anime films and videogames use the term Moe to refer to the strong sense of emotional attachment they feel for their favorite characters. These fans have a powerful desire to protect and nurture the youthful, beautiful and innocent characters they adore--like Sagisawa Moe in Dinosaur Planet and Tomoe Hotaru in Sailor Moon. They create their own websites, characters, stories, discussion groups, toys and games based around the original manga and anime roles. Author Patrick Galbraith is the world's acknowledged expert on Moe and a journalist based in Tokyo. For this book, he interviewed twenty important figures in the world of Japanese manga and anime to gain their insights on the Moe phenomenon. These interviews provide us with the first in-depth survey of this subject. Galbraith uncovers how Moe is influencing an entire generation of manga artists and readers. For those new to anime, manga, and youth culture in Japan, he discusses what constitutes the ideal Moe relationship and why some fans are even determined to marry their fictional sweethearts. He reveals key moments in the development of Moe, and current and future trends in the spread of Moe works and characters from Japan to other parts of the world. The Moe Manifesto provides an insider's look at the earliest Moe characters such as Ayame by Tezuka Osamu. The book has over 100 illustrations of the most famous Moe characters, many in color, and it is sure to delight manga and anime fans of every age.

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Download or read book Anime Classics Zettai written by Brian Camp and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anime connoisseurs, beginners, and the curious, the best of the best!

Download or read book A Guide to Manga Anime and Video Game Cosplay written by Holly Swinyard and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you find yourself sat at home wishing you could be in your favorite video game? Or dream of a time when you pretended you were Sailor Moon? Or do you want to embody your Dungeons and Dragons character for real? What’s holding you back? Maybe you need to introduced to cosplay! Cosplay is a phenomenon that is taking over the world. If you haven’t seen it yet, have you not been looking at social media? Cosplay is a mix of exciting craft skills, heady escapism and passion for pop culture that lets you be whoever you want, whenever you want. Cosplay has made its way into TV shows and documentaries, been included as part of film premieres and video game launches, it’s even referenced in the comics, manga and media it comes from! Talk about meta. But what is this super popular hobby? Well, pick up this book, and it’s twin A Guide to Movie and TV Cosplay, to get all the answers. Because it’s more than just dressing up, promise. With a little bit of help from this handy, dandy guide to cosplay, you can get stuck in. Learn about the history of the hobby (it’s been around longer than you’d think!), where it came from and how it got to be the way it is now, get your head around making and designing costumes, find out how about all the amazing skills people are using to make these costumes, and perhaps even try a few yourself. Who knows, you might be rocking out as Astro Boy, Chris Redfield or All Might at the next big comic con! So why not give it a try and play make believe for a day.

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 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 To Love Ru Vol 18 written by Saki Hasemi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rito has long been torn between the affections of Lala, the beautiful princess from outer space, and his feelings for Haruna, his long-standing high school crush. When things take a turn for the worse, it's time for Rito to really think about the big unanswered question: Who does he love more? In the penultimate volume of To Love Ru, it's time for Rito's long-awaited confession of love! FINAL VOLUME!