Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006
Electronic books distributor eBook Initiative Japan Co. said it will distribute Japanese "manga" comic books via an Internet portal site in Singapore starting Tuesday.
The service will initially offer 30 titles, including a collection of "Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro" by Shigeru Mizuki, in their original and Chinese-language versions, the Tokyo-based company said.
Full article is here.
About time mainstream companies using technology to promote mangas. I wondered why it is so tardy for them to catch up and play the same game field as scanlators. Was it laziness or adversiness to new tech?
On related on article...
BitTorrent plans movie download site
Download foreign films
Dan Nystedt
BitTorrent plans to open an online movie store to sell foreign films and other hard-to-find video, including content from China, Japan and India.
Full article is here.
Thursday, September 14
Evangelion Updates
Posted Sep 13th 2006 7:02PM by Mark Beall
Following close on the heels of Monday's news about four new Neon Genesis Evangelion anime movies comes a more concrete and substantial report on the project, thanks to the ever-present Variety. The four new films will be released in a semi-staggered order, with the first film hitting Japanese theaters in July of next year, the second in January, and the third and fourth (as a double-bonus release) sometime in the summer of '08
Full article is here
Personally I felt this is a one big dead horse. I wondered why GAINAX keep beating it since they certainly capable of producing non Evangelion anime which is good like Furi Kuri.
However, it remains to be seen if the movies can live up to the promise of enchancing one of the seminal anime in our time. Anime was never the same after Evangelion (1997).
Sunday, September 10
Suffolk Art League winner on display starting today
By Ashley McKnight-Taylor
Friday, September 8, 2006 5:35 PM CDT
Beginning today, the winner of the Suffolk Art League’s 2005 Annual Juried Exhibition will unveil his one-man show of drawings, paintings and other works at the Suffolk Museum through Oct. 22.
Mark Miltz will present “SUBTERRA” incognito, precursors and elaborations, a mixture of figure sketches, oil paintings and other media all meant to educate the viewer in one way or another.
Linda Bunch, administrative assistant for the Suffolk Art League, described his work as academic, mixed with fantasy.
Full article is here.
Friday, September 8, 2006 5:35 PM CDT
Beginning today, the winner of the Suffolk Art League’s 2005 Annual Juried Exhibition will unveil his one-man show of drawings, paintings and other works at the Suffolk Museum through Oct. 22.
Mark Miltz will present “SUBTERRA” incognito, precursors and elaborations, a mixture of figure sketches, oil paintings and other media all meant to educate the viewer in one way or another.
Linda Bunch, administrative assistant for the Suffolk Art League, described his work as academic, mixed with fantasy.
Full article is here.
Amazing art exhibition of Anime and African mask paintings
On the web, you can see Lore Eckelberry’s work at www.artistlore.com
Painter Lore Eckelberry gets inspired by the dynamic art of Japan called Manga and Anime. Her work is all done by her confident brushstrokes laying a shimmering palette of color on large scale canvases bringing a painter’s sensibility to an art form.
The fantastic colorful paintings of Lore Eckelberry are now on view at Infusion Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 9,2006 -- The dynamic paintings of Lore Eckelberry are now on view at Infusion Gallery, 828 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014. The show will run from the 1st to the 25th of September, with an artist reception on the 14th of September from 6pm to 10pm.
The perfection of her outlines shows the control that an artist can bring to a brush on canvas. By using such a traditional medium of paint brush on canvas, Lore Eckelberry gives even more energy to the contemporary anime style.
In addition to the bold line work made completely by hand, Lore Eckelberry’s amazing combination of Acrylic-Gouache colors add an even stronger life to the already vivid emotion portrayed in the work.
Full article is here.
Painter Lore Eckelberry gets inspired by the dynamic art of Japan called Manga and Anime. Her work is all done by her confident brushstrokes laying a shimmering palette of color on large scale canvases bringing a painter’s sensibility to an art form.
The fantastic colorful paintings of Lore Eckelberry are now on view at Infusion Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 9,2006 -- The dynamic paintings of Lore Eckelberry are now on view at Infusion Gallery, 828 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014. The show will run from the 1st to the 25th of September, with an artist reception on the 14th of September from 6pm to 10pm.
The perfection of her outlines shows the control that an artist can bring to a brush on canvas. By using such a traditional medium of paint brush on canvas, Lore Eckelberry gives even more energy to the contemporary anime style.
In addition to the bold line work made completely by hand, Lore Eckelberry’s amazing combination of Acrylic-Gouache colors add an even stronger life to the already vivid emotion portrayed in the work.
Full article is here.
Friday, September 8
Fans lift J-culture over language barrier
By PATRICK MACIAS
Special to The Japan Times
Global interest in Japanese entertainment continues to heat up. Quite literally.
Hardcore manga fans around the world are taking their Japanese comics off the shelf and putting them into the microwave.
"They do that so the glue melts, which allows them to take apart the volume page by page so they can be scanned easily," explains Jonathan, 21, a journalism student at West Virginia University who did not want his last name published.
Why would folks do that to their precious and costly imported comic books? Because they are "scanlators," a growing community of fans whose love of Japanese manga drives them to take each page, scan it into their computer, then translate the material from Japanese into English and upload it to the Internet for a wider audience to enjoy for free.
Full article is here.
Special to The Japan Times
Global interest in Japanese entertainment continues to heat up. Quite literally.
Hardcore manga fans around the world are taking their Japanese comics off the shelf and putting them into the microwave.
"They do that so the glue melts, which allows them to take apart the volume page by page so they can be scanned easily," explains Jonathan, 21, a journalism student at West Virginia University who did not want his last name published.
Why would folks do that to their precious and costly imported comic books? Because they are "scanlators," a growing community of fans whose love of Japanese manga drives them to take each page, scan it into their computer, then translate the material from Japanese into English and upload it to the Internet for a wider audience to enjoy for free.
Full article is here.
What if the lead character looks like me?
Girl fans of shoujo anime and their Web sites
In Rye, NY in the summer of 2003, I attended ShoujoCon, an anime convention (Shoujocon Chronicles, 2003). It was close to home, and being new to the world of anime, I did not realize that the conference was anything other than a general anime convention. However, I quickly learned that all anime does not revolve around robots, explosions, battles, and schoolgirls in short-skirted sailor outfits. I also discovered that the anime fan base includes many girls and young women. They were there to see shoujo anime animation created by women for a female audience. The conference had three viewing rooms going about 16 hours a day as well as a variety of panels for fans to exchange knowledge and meet industry professionals. Attendees ranked their favorite bishonen or male character, exchanged Web site addresses, and talked about what Web sites were worth visiting. My experiences at the convention piqued my interest in two broad topics‹how girls and young women relate to shoujo anime with its strong female leads, and how girls participate in the online anime fan culture. Since the content of these shoujo series is different in many ways from other types of anime, and since girls and young women are not as active in creating Web sites as are boys and young men (Pastore, 2000), I wondered whether girl fans of shoujo were typical fans in terms of their online behavior. For this chapter I studied Web sites created by college-age or younger women about shoujo series since they seemed to make up the bulk of the audience I saw at the convention.1 The next section of the chapter describes two types of anime available to viewers in the United States. Informed by the work of Angela McRobbie, this chapter then considers how girls based discussions of boys and romance on shoujo anime characters and stories. Lastly, John Fiske's conception of a fan economy is used to examine the webpages made by girls who are fans of shoujo anime as examples of textual and enunciative productivity.
Full article is here.
In Rye, NY in the summer of 2003, I attended ShoujoCon, an anime convention (Shoujocon Chronicles, 2003). It was close to home, and being new to the world of anime, I did not realize that the conference was anything other than a general anime convention. However, I quickly learned that all anime does not revolve around robots, explosions, battles, and schoolgirls in short-skirted sailor outfits. I also discovered that the anime fan base includes many girls and young women. They were there to see shoujo anime animation created by women for a female audience. The conference had three viewing rooms going about 16 hours a day as well as a variety of panels for fans to exchange knowledge and meet industry professionals. Attendees ranked their favorite bishonen or male character, exchanged Web site addresses, and talked about what Web sites were worth visiting. My experiences at the convention piqued my interest in two broad topics‹how girls and young women relate to shoujo anime with its strong female leads, and how girls participate in the online anime fan culture. Since the content of these shoujo series is different in many ways from other types of anime, and since girls and young women are not as active in creating Web sites as are boys and young men (Pastore, 2000), I wondered whether girl fans of shoujo were typical fans in terms of their online behavior. For this chapter I studied Web sites created by college-age or younger women about shoujo series since they seemed to make up the bulk of the audience I saw at the convention.1 The next section of the chapter describes two types of anime available to viewers in the United States. Informed by the work of Angela McRobbie, this chapter then considers how girls based discussions of boys and romance on shoujo anime characters and stories. Lastly, John Fiske's conception of a fan economy is used to examine the webpages made by girls who are fans of shoujo anime as examples of textual and enunciative productivity.
Full article is here.
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