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How to Draw Manga

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:58:25 +0000

Manga is a highly regarded art form in Japan. Manga artists are highly respected not only for their skill but also for their imagination and creativity.

To draw manga, one would have to study the characteristics of manga images. Most people who wants to learn how to draw manga are usually attracted to some characters in a manga series. Without knowing it, they’re not only attracted to the physical form of the manga character, they’re also drawn to the personality of the character.

Manga pictures are not hard to draw once you understand its basic characteristics. And here they are.

Firstly, manga characters are adorable looking. This cuteness is defined by extremely large eyes, an almond shaped face, and a very small mouth. In fact, the faces of manga characters can look very similar, and they’re differentiated mostly by their elaborate hair, dressing and accessories.

The manga face is made up of very basic shapes. So there’s very little I can recommend here except to practice, practice, practice. If you can master drawing one manga face well, you’ll be able to draw other manga faces as well.

The key here is to be able to capture the elaborate hair. Its not uncommon to see manga characters with long hair. Many fine lines are required to draw a fine head of hair, so do pick a sharp drawing tool for this purpose.

The dressing and accessories of a manga character is a statement of who the character is. So do not ignore these fine details. Spiritual characters often have “floating” pieces of cloth around them (e.g. cloak, scarf, etc).

Warriors almost always carry some kind of fancy weapon such as swords, spears, and so on. These weapons, together with the clothing, make-up the entire manga character.

Knowing this, the next time you draw a manga character, pay special attention to the hair, clothing and weapons of the character.

Manga Film History-robot Manga

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:58:32 +0000

While the animated film has had a great deal of advancement in the Western part of the world it has been highly influential to Japanese entertainment as well. Manga anime films have been around for as long as Western animated films. These films, which include animation inspired by manga and can be based on anime productions in many cases, have been popular not only in Japanese entertainment but also for other parts of the world.

In 1945 Mitsuyo Seo was commissioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy to create the film Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors. This was Japan’s first full length manga anime film. This was used as a means of propaganda for the Japanese. It is highly believed that this film was heavily inspired by the 1940 Western animated film Fantasia.

Much of this industry was put on hold during the occupation of Japan by the United States. It would eventually resume in 1958 with Toei Animation’s Tale of the White Serpent. This and other films from Japan around this time are considered to be highly influenced by the Walt Disney Company’s productions. However, in 1968 Isao Takahata’s Hols: Prince of the Sun changed the pattern in that the film emphasized the director bringing one’s ideas to animation instead of using certain types of inspirations.

The 1984 Hayao Miyazaki film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was important to the advancement of this type of film. Released in North America as Warriors of the Wind, this film was noted not only for its amazing animation but also for its strong messages of environmentalism. This helped to not only influence this form of Japanese entertainment to incorporate real life concerns but also to try and make anime films more lavish.

In the 1980s Katsuhiro Otomo created the successful manga series Akira. In 1988 he adapted it into a highly successful manga anime film. While this film was highly popular outside of Japan it was a commercial flop in Japan because of its incredibly high budget. This was the same for other manga anime films of the 1980s in that they worked with trying to be more lavish in production.

Today manga anime films are still made and are still popular. The 2004 film Innocence: Ghost in the Shell was featured at the Cannes Film Festival. Many of Miyazaki’s films have broken Japanese box office records as well.

Manga anime films are notable to the history of Japanese entertainment. These films have been influenced by manga and various Western influences. However, over the years these films have become influenced by original ideas including some outside of the manga field.

Foreign animation has become very popular in various parts of the world and one of the strongest is that of manga anime. All sorts of different styles of manga anime have been made. One of the most popular of these is super robot manga anime. This type of genre has been popular in Japan and has inspired a variety of programs.

The concept of super robot manga anime is simple. What happens here is that an individual hero or a group of heroes control a giant robot or a series of giant robots that can combine into one great super fighter. The people involved are generally inside of the robot and will control the robot’s actions and functions as being a practical brain for the machine. This type of genre is noted in that the origins of the story are kept as mysterious ideas.

A typical super robot program in foreign animation works in a simple way. Because of the mysterious origin of the super robot in one of these programs there is hardly any reference to any origins. Instead it focuses on a villain of the week Â format. This is where the super robot or robots and its controllers will fight and defeat an enemy in the course of an episode. In most cases these enemies will be in conjunction with a major enemy that may not be fought until the final episode of the series. Villains that are stronger or more vital to the main villain are generally fought in season finales or in major milestones in the series. This format has become influential to various animation programs over the years in other countries.

In 1956 Mitsuteru Yokoyama created the series Iron Man 28. This series would go on to television as Tetsujin 28-go, which is known outside of Japan as Gigantor. This is considered to be the first of these super robot programs. Go Nagai’s Mazinger Z, which was first introduced in manga and anime forms in 1972, was highly influential as well.

In the 1980s the Force Five series of foreign animation became highly popular outside of Japan. These programs included Grandizer, Spaceketeers and Dangard Ace. The Shogun Warriors line of toys from Mattel became popular as well. Also, the mid-1980s cartoon Voltron: Defender of the Universe became highly poplar in North America. This program was a condensation of some other super robot programs, including Golion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV.

Super robot manga anime is one of the most unique forms of foreign animation. This style of anime is one that deals with heroes controlling giant robots. As simple as the concept sounds it has become one of the most successful forms of anime ever to be made.

Anime and Manga Captivates All Age Groups

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:25:44 +0000

Although the artwork is cartoon style, Anime is much more than just a “cartoon” to its fans. While traditional cartoons in the United States are either humorous, or simplistic “good versus evil” storylines, the typical Japanese anime series offers characters who evolve as the series moves along and deals with complex real-life issues, such as friendship, love, loss, even the reality and acceptance of death.

Japanese Anime truely is an art, with its wonderful plots and beautifully drawn pictures. Anime is entirely about movement between states of being, whether fast or slow. The â€˜beingâ€™ of a person, which can be oneâ€™s soul, mind, blood-line, weapon, limb or organ, is always caught in various stages of transition.

I love the anime characters and their development, particularly, the way each of them possesses multiple personalities, motivations and attitudes. It creates what comes close to the complexity of true human relationships, very touching and memorable.

Anime provides an escape to a wonderous world so beautiful and amazing you wonder how the artist created such a place and conceived the charaters that capture our hearts and keep us impatiently awaiting the next episode’s release.

Anime is doing what every artistic medium strives to achieve, move you. Anime characters with their spiky hair and huge expressive eyes hold our attention, we cannot help but respond to the language and expression conveyed through their eyes.

Japanese anime artists are eternally searching for the cutest little creature they can possible come up with, and one of the newer characters is Mamegoma, a “bean seal.” I have no idea what that means but he is an adorable little critter!

Anime may also be adapted into live action television programs, available on media such as movies, DVD, video games, soundtracks, music, MP3, and all audio formats for mobile devices.

Anime is often influenced by Japanese comics known as “manga”.

Japanese Manga

Manga is a type of Japanese story usually presented in black-and-white, comic-book form. The books are most often produced in Japan, but artists and writers from many other countries create their own manga as well. Manga is in still form (books) and Anime is animated (moving). You can’t read anime and you can’t watch manga..

Japanese Manga is quite different from American comic books in many ways, which is why it is sometimes translated as graphic novels. Comic books in America tend to be in color, sold in thin booklets, and written for a teenage male audience.

Japanese Manga is gender-based from its creation to its marketing. Titles are created for children (kodomo manga), for tween and teen girls (shojo manga), for tween and teen boys (shonen manga), for women (josei manga), and for men (seinen manga).

Manga is well respected as an art form. Japanese manga comics have developed an entirely fresh approach to sequential artwork and have given new inspiration to artists. The influence of manga can now be seen in films, animation and comics the world over.

The overwhelming approval of Hayao Miyazaki’s anime and manga are changing the perception of anime and manga, placing them closer to the status of “higher” arts (Top of box office charts of all-time in Japan is “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyzaki, 30.4 billion yen).

Manga is actually a medium which can encompass different genres of stories, from action to romance, comedy to sci-fi, there is a little something for everyone. Manga is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide and it is rapidly growing in western nations.

Anime and Manga fans and collectors have discovered that buying or renting their episodes, movies and DVD’s locally can rapidly become quite costly, and availability is often limited. The internet has spawned a tremendous growth in the availability of Anime and Manga episodes, movies and DVD’s that is escalating exponentially each year.

More and more Anime and Manga fans are flocking to the internet to find their favorite Japanese Anime and Manga episode downloads, movie downloads, DVD’s, anime games, anime soundtracks, amine music, and even wallpaper and MP3’s are available at a fraction of the cost as buying them locally.

To avoid pay per download costs, which can add up rapidly, anime membership sites with unlimited downloads offer the best option.However, some membeship sites are inferior to others with limited anime databases and/or hidden costs etc. I recommend you do your due diligence and go to: ReviewExpose.com/AnimeAndManga/ for revealing information about Anime and Manga websites.

What Manga Girls Read

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:22:03 +0000

Of Japanese comics (known better as manga) fans grows daily among both men and women. Unlike American comics mostly targeting men, manga has a lot of sub-genres with some addressing exclusively women of various ages.

A manga is usually created by one (often with assistants) drawing a comics and writing texts. However thereâ€™s also group activity like the Clamp band, still a normal team is 3-4 people at most. Professional manga is next to amateur manga – doujinshi (dojinshi). The following is mostly about professional manga.

A popular genre is shojo (shoujo) manga literally meaning a young girl. So it targets women audience aged 10 to 18. Shojo manga was first created primarily by men but then many female writers have sprung since about 1969.

Shojo manga is multi-genre and -topic including historical drama and science fiction. It often describes romance and emotions pertaining specifically to girls.

Many publishing houses specialize in this type of manga â€“ Shueish with Ribon monthly magazine, Kodansha with Nakayoshi magazine and others. Most series were first printed in such magazines and then serialized.

* Hot Gimmick by Miki Aihara

* Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya

* Peach Girl: Change of Heart by Miwa Ueda

* Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom by Hisaya Nakajo

* Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu, Anita Sengupta

* Kare First Love by Kaho Miyasaka

* Doubt by Kaneyoshi Izumi

* Happy Hustle High by Rie Takada

* The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa

* Beauty is the Beast by Tomo Matsumoto

A sub-genre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga called magical girls (maho shojo) tells about girls with superhuman abilities forced to fight evil and protect the Earth. Stories with magic and a transformation like Full Moon wo Sagashite often feature girls with a secret identity. Magical girls known in Japan as majokko (witch girl) generally donâ€™t refer to modern magical girl anime first of which was Sally, the Witch in 1966. This genre counts hundreds of stories. Hereâ€™re just some except the ones mentioned before:

* Alice 19th by Yuu Watase

* Cardcaptor Sakura by Clamp

* Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi

* I-O-N by Arina Tanemura

* My-HiME by Hajime Yatate, Noboru Kimura

* Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi

Josei manga (ladies – ladies’ comics) is created mostly by women targeting late teenage and adult female audiences. Josei (seinen for male) means simply female and serves to move away from the primitive image of ladies’ comics.

The stories cover everyday life of Japanese women, sometimes at high school. Their style is a realistic version of shojo manga and tends to be a continuity of female comics.

Unlike idealistic shojo manga, josei comics portray realistic romance with more explicit and mature storytelling like Honey and Clover. Below are some series of popular manga:

* Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno

* Walking Butterfly by Chihiro Tamaki

* Bride of the Water God by Mi-Kyung Yun

* Suppli by Mari Okazaki

* The Other Side of the Mirror by Jo Chen

* With The Light by Keiko Tobe

* Inubaka: Crazy For Dogs by Yukiya Sakuragi

* Presents by Kanako Inuki

* IC in a Sunflower by Mitsukazu Mihara

Yaoi is fictional media on gay relationships but by and for females. Yaoi is abbreviated from Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi (neither climax, nor sense, nor denouement). Originally a pejorative fan term, now it has an extended and almost scientific meaning.

Known in Japan as boysâ€™ love (BL or boizu rabu), yaoi includes parodies, original works, commercial and dojinshi works. However BL features adult males, while young boys stories refer to the shotacon genre. Both original and translated yaoi is now available internationally.

Lesbian stories in manga, anime and related Japanese media are slanged as yuri (girls love or garuzu rabu). Emotions (sometimes called shojo-ai by western fans) and sex are its 2 focuses. Springing from female-targeted (shoujo, josei) works, yuri today is present in male-targeted (shonen, seinen) ones too.

Female manga in English gradually gets more printed. The Web has seen many amateur translator groups targeting only women and sites to read manga online.

Read Manga Anytime, Anywhere

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:46:45 +0000

Manga is Japanese for Comic Book. It is similar to the comic book in the western countries but is usually in black and white. Western countries’ comic books are often colored, while mangas are black and white. Another point of difference is that you read a manga from right to left and from the back of the book to the front. Mangas are very popular even now and the main reason for that might be anime.

Anime is the Japanese form of animation. It is the most popular TV show and movie that came from Japan. What people might not know about anime is that most of the anime shows are derived from mangas.

This is probably why Mangas are popular. An anime episode takes too long to be seen on TV, since each episode is usually shown once a week. On mangas, you can read the continuation of the story, and at the same time, see the difference between the manga and the anime version.

If you are a fan of mangas, then you probably want to have a copy of your favorite manga. There are already translated versions of the most popular mangas that you can buy from a store. But if your favorite manga is not among the ones sold, you can still enjoy reading the manga from the Internet.

There are many websites that allow you to read translated manga. A website such as OneManga.com has hundreds of mangas ready to be read online. But if you can’t stay online for too long, or if you want to download and print the manga, you can look for a website that offers manga download.

Downloading a manga from the Internet could be a hassle if you do not know where to go. So here are some methods that you can do to get a download:

One thing you can do is to go to OneManga.com or other manga-oriented websites and view the pages of your favorite manga. For each page, right click on the page and choose the ‘Save Image As’ option. Save the images on a folder to get your own copy of the manga.

Another method that you can use is to simply look for a website that offers downloads. There are many websites such as BleachExile.com that allows you to download a zip file of a manga directly from the internet. But you need to be patient and wait for the download to finish before having the opportunity to turn off your computer. This could take quite a while.

Another method you can do is to use a BitTorrent Client. A BitTorrent Client is a peer-to-peer application that allows you to share downloads of files with other BitTorrent Client users. If there are many users who download or seed the same file, the download of each file will be much faster. Simply download a BitTorrent Client and search for a torrent file of your favorite manga. You can download the manga, pause it and continue the download anytime, which is a great advantage over direct downloads.

After downloading the manga, you can now read it in your computer, print it before reading, or copy the images to a mobile device and read it anytime anywhere. Just make sure that the mobile device allows image zooming so that you can read the manga without a problem.