Cities promoting manga, anime resources

Efforts to attract tourists with manga or animation resources have increased among municipal and town governments across the nation.

In Kyoto, where Kyoto Seika University set up the nation's first faculty of manga in spring, Kyoto International Manga Museum will open in the city's Nakagyo Ward on Saturday.

The new regional strategy of the ancient capital has drawn nationwide attention.

As Kyoto has many cultural assets associated with contemporary animation, including picture scrolls of animals produced from the Heian to Kamakura periods (794-1333), some observers maintain that the city is the birthplace of manga.

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Japan now capitalizing on its soft power, anime and manga culture to get more tourist money. The economy is not doing too well and they looking for new directions to make money. Guess they found a new way to market "Made In Japan" motto to the world now. This is a follow up from the opening of the Kyoto Manga Museum entry, 1 day ago.

Fate/Zero

The prequel to famous visual novel from TYPE-MOON, Fate/Zero is coming. It talks about the 4th Grail War which Shirou's foster father fought, Kiritsugu Emiya. Already the website revealed suited Saber, Gilgamesh and possibly Iskandar which known to Western world as Alexander the Great. The respective Masters are Kiritsugu, Kotomine and a female which many people speculate as Ilya's mother.

Me excited? You bet!

PS: I noticed Nitroplus involvement in this. This people are famous for their gun themed visual novels such as Phantom of the Inferno. I guess Fate Zero will have a lot of gunplay since Kiritsugu is famous for his handgun skills.

PPS: Well Kiritsugu did conceive Ilya with someone from Einzbern family, so maybe they will be ero scene.

Alexander the Great achievement even as human is legendary. So as time goes, his exploits becoming more and more like fable as humans remembered him. So, when he is summoned as Servant (I think as Rider class which pretty obvious with his steed, Buchepalas), he fits the classification as a hero or enrei.

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UPDATE! Anime is on!

International Manga Museum in Kyoto

New Manga Museum in Japan?


This is an awesome place, earning place in my places to go in my lifetime goal. It will display the rich Japanese history in manga and pictorial based story telling. About 200,000 items from old era to new age will be on show in the museum. Wow! I just so excited that such place exists for people like me who likes history and wants to know more about this elegant subject.

5 cm Trailer by Makoto Shinkai

This YouTube trailer did not do justice to its sheer beauty of the trailer, get it from this original website

This is highest resolution for higher computer specs.

It did make me gulp in excitement and I do want to watch this feature. I enjoyed Voices of Distant Star and Beyond the Clouds so this is no different from the rest he offered. It somehow reflected a great soul in make, not just commercialized feel of it.

I will post a review on Hoshi no Koe soon.

Fate/Stay Night Reality Nua PS 2 Opening

Alright! I am looking forward towards this work as it featured some new story and new CG. I was wondering if it will enchance the story of the game or not.

But being a TYPEMOON fan for long time, I am looking really forward to this work. Saber FTW.

Hayao Miyazaki personal view on anime

About Japanese animation
By Hayao Miyazaki

It was 1958 when Hakujaden (The Legend of White Snake), the first feature length color cartoon movie in Japan, was released. In the end of that year, I, who was a senior high school student and was supposed to be preparing for the university entrance exam, met this movie at a third-class cheap movie theater.


Full article is here.

Words of anime appeal from maestro himself, Hayao Miyazaki. He felt that anime is a transition, not absolutism in itself, however he did express his views on modern animes as lacking in soul as it is too commercialized. How true is those words? I personally did not really agree with him on that but maybe it is cultural relativism he is trying to stress.

What I see is different from his, so clash of opinion is undoubtly inevitable.