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2010-09-07T01:33:00.000-07:00

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Ilustrate of anime

2010-08-25T19:22:00.000-07:00

Let's to know, Haruhi Suzumiya : character in the anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi is a first year high school student and can be characterized as a fun and crazy girl. She also has a special ability: the power to change, destroy, or create a new reality based on her desire.

Today....I show you ,The guy who made the video below is pretty skilled in MS Paint. So, being able to draw Haruhi as he does might take you a lot of time. I recommend you start doing what he does on paper first, to get your hand formed, and then advance to a computer. Of course, a graphic tablet might be even better, but it’s kind of expensive. Now, just watch the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWVJLREEG1A&feature=player_embedded

History Manga-2

2010-07-26T21:07:00.001-07:00

Kanagaki Robun and Kawanabe Kyosai created the first manga magazine in 1874: Eshinbun Nipponchi. The magazine was heavily influenced by Japan Punch, founded in 1862 by Charles Wirgman, a British cartoonist.Eshinbun Nipponchi had a very simple style of drawings and did not become popular with many people. Eshinbun Nipponchi ended after three issues. The magazine Kisho Shimbun in 1875 was inspired by Eshinbun Nipponchi, this was followed by Marumaru Chinbun in 1877, and then Garakuta Chinpo in 1879.^[46] Shōnen Sekai was the first shōnen magazine created in 1895 by Iwaya Sazanami, a famous writer of Japanese children's literature back then. Shōnen Sekai had a strong focus on the First Sino-Japanese War.^[47]

In 1905 the manga-magazine publishing boom started with the Russo-Japanese War,^[48] Tokyo Pakku was created and became a huge hit.^[49] After Tokyo Pakku in 1905, a female version of Shōnen Sekai was created and named Shōjo Sekai, considered the first shōjomagazine.^[50] Shōnen Pakku was made and is considered the first kodomo magazine. The kodomo demographic was in an early stage of development of Meiji period. Shōnen Pakku was influenced from foreign children's magazines such as Puck which an employee of Jitsugyō no Nihon (publisher of the magazine) saw and decided to Shōnen Pakku. In 1924, Kodomo Pakku was launched as another kodomomagazine after Shōnen Pakku.^[49] In the boom, Poten was published in 1908 which comes from the French "potin". All the pages were full color influenced from Tokyo Pakku and Osaka Pakku. It is unknown if there was any other issues than the first.^[48] Kodomo Pakku was launched May 1924 by Tokyosha and featured high-quality art of many members of the manga society like Takei Takeo, Takehisa Yumeji and Aso Yutaka. On some of the manga it used speech balloons for representation, other manga from the previous eras did not use speech balloons and were silent.^[49]

Published from May 1935 to January 1941, Manga no Kuni coincided with the period of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Manga no Kunifeatured information on becoming a mangaka and on other comics industries around the world. Manga no Kuni handed its title to Sashie Manga Kenkyū in August 1940.^[51]

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History of Manga

2010-07-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

Historians and writers on manga history have described two broad and complementary processes shaping modern manga. Their views differ in the relative importance they attribute to the role of cultural and historical events following World War II versus the role of pre-War, Meiji, and pre-Meiji Japanese culture and art.

Astro Boy quickly became (and remains) immensely popular in Japan and elsewhere,^[19] and the anime adaptation of Sazae-san continues to run as of 2009, regularly drawing more viewers than any other anime on Japanese television. Tezuka and Hasegawa both made stylistic innovations. In Tezuka's "cinematographic" technique, the panels are like a motion picture that reveals details of action bordering on slow motion as well as rapid zooms from distance to close-up shots. This kind of visual dynamism was widely adopted by later manga artists.^[20] Hasegawa's focus on daily life and on women's experience also came to characterize later shōjo manga.^[21] Between 1950 and 1969, an increasingly large readership for manga emerged in Japan with the solidification of its two main marketing genres, shōnen manga aimed at boys and shōjo manga aimed at girls.^[22]

In 1969 a group of female manga artists (later called the Year 24 Group, also known asMagnificent 24s) made their shōjo manga debut ("year 24" comes from the Japanese name for 1949, the birth-year of many of these artists).^[23] The group included Hagio Moto, Riyoko Ikeda,Yumiko Oshima, Keiko Takemiya, and Ryoko Yamagishi, and they marked the first major entry of women artists into manga.^[8] Thereafter, primarily women artists manga would draw shōjo for a readership of girls and young women.^[24] In the following decades (1975–present), shōjo manga continued to develop stylistically while simultaneously evolving different but overlapping subgenres.^[25] Major subgenres include romance, superheroines, and "Ladies Comics" (in Japanese, redisu レディース, redikomi レディコミ, and josei 女性).^[26]

Modern shōjo manga romance features love as a major theme set into emotionally intense narratives of self-realization.^[27] With the superheroines, shōjo manga saw releases such asNaoko Takeuchi's Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, which became internationally popular in both manga and anime formats.^[28] Groups (or sentais) of girls working together have also been popular within this genre.^[29]

Manga for male readers sub-divides according to the age of its intended readership: boys up to 18 years old (shōnen manga) and young men 18- to 30-years old (seinen manga);^[30] as well as by content, including action-adventure often involving male heroes, slapstick humor, themes of honor, and sometimes explicit sexuality.^[31] The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of "seinen"—青年 for "youth, young man" and 成年 for "adult, majority"—the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin("adult" 成人) manga.^[32] Shōnen, seinen, and seijin manga share many features in common.

Boys and young men became some of the earliest readers of manga after World War II. From the 1950s on, shōnen manga focused on topics thought to interest the archetypal boy, including subjects like robots, space-travel, and heroic action-adventure.^[33] Popular themes include science fiction, technology, sports, and supernatural settings. Manga with solitary costumed superheroes like Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man generally did not become as popular.^[34]

The role of girls and women in manga produced for male readers has evolved considerably over time to include those featuring single pretty girls (bishōjo)^[35] such as Belldandy from Oh My Goddess!, stories where such girls and women surround the hero, as in Negima andHanaukyo Maid Team, or groups of heavily armed female warriors (sentō bishōjo)^[36]

With the relaxation of censorship in Japan after the early 1990s, a wide variety of explicitly-drawn sexual themes appeared in manga intended for male readers, and correspondingly occur in English translations.^[37] These depictions range from mild partial nudity through implied and explicit sexual intercourse through bondage and sadomasochism (SM), zoophilia (bestiality), incest, and rape.^[38]

The gekiga style of drawing—emotionally dark, often starkly realistic, sometimes very violent—focuses on the day-in, day-out grim realities of life, often drawn in gritty and unpretty fashions.^[39] Gekiga such as Sampei Shirato's 1959–1962 Chronicles of a Ninja's Military Accomplishments (Ninja Bugeichō) arose in the late 1950s and 1960s partly from left-wing student and working-class political activism^[40]and partly from the aesthetic dissatisfaction of young manga artists like Yoshihiro Tatsumi with existing manga.^[41]

Manga magazines usually have many series running concurrently with approximately 20–40 pages allocated to each series per issue. Other magazines such as the anime fandom magazine Newtype featured single chapters within their monthly periodicals. Other magazines like Nakayoshi feature many stories written by many different artists, these magazines, or "anthology magazines", as they are also known (colloquially "phone books"), are usually printed on low-quality newsprint and can be anywhere from 200 to more than 850 pages long. Manga magazines also contain one-shot comics and various four-panel yonkoma (equivalent to comic strips). Manga series can run for many years if they are successful. Manga artists sometimes start out with a few "one-shot" manga projects just to try to get their name out. If these are successful and receive good reviews, they are continued. Magazines often have a short life.^[45]

Info Manga

2010-07-26T20:50:00.000-07:00

In Japan, people of all ages read manga. The genre includes a broad range of subjects: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among others.^[4] Since the 1950s, manga have steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry,^[5] representing a 406 billion yen market in Japan in 2007 (approximately $3.6 billion). Manga have also become increasingly^[vague] popular worldwide.^[6] In 2008, the U.S. and Canadian manga market was $175 million. Manga are typically printed in black-and-white,^[7]although some full-color manga exist (e.g. Colorful). In Japan, manga are usually serialized in telephone book-size^[vague] manga magazines, often containing many stories, each presented in a single episode to be continued in the next issue. If the series is successful, collected chapters may be republished inpaperback books called tankōbon.^[8] A manga artist (mangaka in Japanese) typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company.^[2] If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or even during its run,^[9]although sometimes manga are drawn centering on previously existing live-action or animated films^[10](e.g. Star Wars).

The Japanese word manga, literally translated, means "whimsical pictures". The word first came into common usage in the late 18th century with the publication of such works as Santō Kyōden's picturebookShiji no yukikai (1798), and in the early 19th century with such works as Aikawa Minwa's Manga hyakujo(1814) and the celebrated Hokusai Manga books (1814–1878) containing assorted drawings from the sketchbooks of the famous ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.^[14] Rakuten Kitazawa (1876–1955) first used the word "manga" in the modern sense.^[15]