Shôjo Manga

Author : Masami Toku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317610755

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International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga by Masami Toku Pdf

This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and researchers from both manga’s home country of Japan and abroad, looking at shojo and shojo manga’s influence both locally and globally. Finally, it presents original interviews of shojo manga-ka, or artists, who discuss their work and their views on this distinct type of popular visual culture.

Author : The Editors Of Hakusensha's Shojo M,Natsuki Takaya And Friends
Publisher : TokyoPop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1427816654

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How to Draw Shojo Manga by The Editors Of Hakusensha's Shojo M,Natsuki Takaya And Friends Pdf

Explains the basics of creating a shojo manga, the manga style targeted at girls, taking the reader from learning to draw to the submission of a shojo manga to publishers.

Author : HowExpert,Caselyn Villar
Publisher : HowExpert
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647588595

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How To Draw Shojo Manga by HowExpert,Caselyn Villar Pdf

This book mainly focus on character designing, Mainly how to design your own shoujo character, We focus more on how to draw significant faces and draw significant clothing and to call it your own and not to be confused with other styles of manga because reading this would make you understand every types of styles out there. Reading this book alone will be like reading all of the books out there that focus on how to design a character, because In this style, you’re not only using one styles but all of them! it might sound unrealistic but it remains it’s true. I’ve complied almost all of the things I learned from all of the books I have read but they’re not enough because they usually focus on “I’ll show you how to draw like me” types of lessons, But now I made the perfect type of guideline myself that could make you know how to draw all characters out there, and by looking into the styles of others you’ll know what category they belong to or what type of facial styles they use or the basic shape they used to make that type of clothing or face almost like how a psychologist read the minds of people. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Author : HowExepert,Christy Peraja
Publisher : HowExpert
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647588663

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How To Draw Shojo Manga by HowExepert,Christy Peraja Pdf

How to Draw Shojo Manga (Volume 1) by Christy Peraja is a step-by-step practical drawing course that will guide you in learning how to draw girl manga characters in a quick and easy way. This book has detailed step-by-step guidelines in drawing girl manga characters and a many helpful tips and tutorials. Become a better manga artist by getting this easy step-by-step tutorial and check out different shojo manga characters to help you create your own. - Improve your drawing skills by focusing on one of the most acclaimed manga genre. - Inspire your friends with your new drawing skills about shojo manga. - You will learn how to draw the famous shojo heroine and hero characters. - Learn how to draw shojo manga clothing. - Learn how to draw shojo manga accessories. - Find out different hairstyles and hair colors according to its symbolisms. - Make your own shojo manga romantic scenes. - Relieve yourself from the stress that you have had for the day. - Be proud of yourself about how great your skills have improved in drawing. - You don’t need expensive and complicated trainings to learn how to draw female manga characters. Each topic includes beautiful illustrations that are easy for you to re-draw while you are studying drawing. Every guideline, tip, technique, and recommendation we’ve included were well-thought and practiced for you to understand it easily. If you want to learn the quick and easy way to draw shojo characters, How to Draw Shojo Manga (Volume 1) guide is the best for you. Try it! About The Expert Christy Peraja spent four years in the banking, finance, and customer service industry. This was the career that she had to pursue based on her background studies. She learned more than what she expected but always felt that it was not enough. She wanted to become an artist and she thought she could never become one. When Christy Peraja was in junior high, she drew an artwork for the school’s lobby as requested by one of the teachers. The Visual Arts Club Adviser, who later on became her mentor, saw her work and recruited her. He exposed her to many art contests and she received many awards just within those two years. She eventually became the club’s president and graduated with pride at having that title. For almost twenty years she hid her artworks and secretly but persistently trained herself in drawing, painting and writing. Realizing how much she has improved her skills gave her the courage to achieve her lifetime wish. Despite disapproval and criticism, she continued practicing. She is highly skilled at different works of art and manga illustration is her utmost favorite since she is also a big fan of anime and manga. She never stopped dreaming of becoming a real manga artist and she is fulfilling that dream now and has always believed that it was never too late. One piece of advice from Christy Peraja, “Don’t ever be afraid to chase your dreams because if you truly enjoy it, your dreams will be the one chasing you in the end. And you can never runaway from what your heart truly wants. Practice a lot and do not lose the passion of learning something new that would be helpful in improving your skills.” HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Digital Manga Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Cartooning
ISBN : 156970970X

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Shoujo Manga Techniques by Anonim Pdf

A guide to creating shoujo manga stories, including information on the basics of storytelling, and practical advice for inventing narratives just like the professionals. Presented in graphic format.

Author : Heike Stindt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638535151

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Organic Mirrors - Reflections on and by Characters' Bodies in Shojo Manga Angel Sanctuary by Heike Stindt Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1, University of Siegen, course: Introductory seminar: 'Under the Influence: Asian Film Traditions and Hollywood', language: English, abstract: Although products of a highly commercialised entertainment industry, Japan’s manga are still rooted in a tradition of refined figurative self-reflection. Especially theatrical practice with its multiple forms of expression affected manga in a way that it began to feature the human body as the most flexible symbol of both physical and psychical concerns. “In Japanese [...] comics this protean transforming body is sometimes grotesque [...], sometimes alluring [...], but always memorable. [...] In this fantastic mode, ranging from science fiction to occult pornography, the body interrogates the dominant constructions of identity in modern societybe they gender-based or even human species-based.” (Napier, 37) Under such a heading different subgenres of manga developed their own distinctive techniques of presenting bodies. Theshojo1genre, in the beginning exclusively aimed at adolescent girls, acquired its characteristic motifs and style in the seventies when conquered rapidly by draughtswomen who made it a successful domain on the Japanese comic market. Female protagonists were then alternated with so-calledbishonen,sensitive young men of feminine beauty deviating from sexual and social norms by entering into romanticised homoerotic relationships. Androgyny, nonconformity and role reversals, which went back particularly to Kabuki and Takarazuka theatre2, became omnipresent inshojomanga. Great emphasis was placed on physical beauty which did therefore not fall victim to stylisation as it was the case in other genres. Plot ceased to be the centre of interest and gave way to detailed illustrations of inner conflict and personal development for which the human body often constituted the visible equivalent. From this, manga critics also frequently drew conclusions about the inner life of the meanwhile grown main target group, actually girls and young women in their teens or early twenties.

Author : Supittha Bunyapen
Publisher : IMPACT
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1440308624

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Shojo Wonder Manga Art School by Supittha Bunyapen Pdf

A Complete Shojo Manga Art Course! The world of shojo manga art dares you to go all out—big eyes, colorful skin tones, spiky hair—the works. Shojo Wonder Manga Art School shows you how to take full advantage of that freedom while bringing believability and originality to your manga characters. With easy to follow step-by-step instruction, Supittha "Annie" Bunyapen (known as ecthelian on deviantART) shows you how to draw a wide range of characters in the manga style including heads and figures, attitudes and expressions, clothing, and natural and dynamic poses. In addition to this expert instruction, you'll discover tricks for building mood with shadows, light and expressive color. More than 20 step-by-step demos cover an assorted cast of colorful characters, including 5 complete scenes with finished backgrounds Basics-and-beyond instruction on drawing heads, figures, clothing, accessories, poses, hairstyles, costumes and backgrounds Color-mixing charts and step-by-step demonstrations for mastering basic skin tones Coloring techniques for refining your illustrations and mixing markers with other media to create cool effects

Author : Jaqueline Berndt,Kazumi Nagaike,Fusami Ogi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030014858

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Shōjo Across Media by Jaqueline Berndt,Kazumi Nagaike,Fusami Ogi Pdf

Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century—discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology—this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations of girlness within the contemporary global digital mediascape.

Author : Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438473925

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Age of Shojo by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase Pdf

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls’ magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters’ “immature” qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls’ fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls’ fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The book highlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko’s dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo’s social realism, Morita Tama’s autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls’ perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase is Associate Professor of Japanese at Vassar College.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Anime and Manga by Anonim Pdf

Author : Toni Johnson-Woods
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441155696

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Manga by Toni Johnson-Woods Pdf

Once upon a time, one had to read Japanese in order to enjoy manga. Today manga has become a global phenomenon, attracting audiences in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The style has become so popular, in fact, that in the US and UK publishers are appropriating the manga style in a variety of print material, resulting in the birth of harlequin mangas which combine popular romance fiction titles with manga aesthetics. Comic publishers such as Dark Horse and DC Comics are translating Japanese "classics", like Akira, into English. And of course it wasn't long before Shakespeare received the manga treatment. So what is manga? Manga roughly translates as "whimsical pictures" and its long history can be traced all the way back to picture books of eighteenth century Japan. Today, it comes in two basic forms: anthology magazines (such as Shukan Shonen Jampu) that contain several serials and manga 'books' (tankobon) that collect long-running serials from the anthologies and reprint them in one volume. The anthologies contain several serials, generally appear weekly and are so thick, up to 800 pages, that they are colloquially known as phone books. Sold at newspaper stands and in convenience stores, they often attract crowds of people who gather to read their favorite magazine. Containing sections addressing the manga industry on an international scale, the different genres, formats and artists, as well the fans themselves, Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives is an important collection of essays by an international cast of scholars, experts, and fans, and provides a one-stop resource for all those who want to learn more about manga, as well as for anybody teaching a course on the subject.

Author : Roman Rosenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415694230

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Manga and the Representation of Japanese History by Roman Rosenbaum Pdf

This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of study agree that manga pose a peculiarly contemporary appeal that transcends the limitation imposed by traditional approaches to the study and teaching of history. The representation of history via manga in Japan has a long and controversial historiographical dimension. Thereby manga and by extension graphic art in Japanese culture has become one of the world's most powerful modes of expressing contemporary historical verisimilitude. The contributors to this volume elaborate how manga and by extension graphic art rewrites, reinvents and re-imagines the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in postwar and contemporary Japan. Manga and the Representation of Japanese History will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, Asian history, Japanese culture and society, as well as art and visual culture

Author : John A. Lent
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824824717

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Illustrating Asia by John A. Lent Pdf

Illustrations used for story-telling and mirth-making have enlivened Asian walls, scrolls, books, public and private places, and artifacts for millennia. Often playful and humorous, Asian pictorial stories lent conspicuous elements to contemporary comic art, particularly with their use of narrative nuance, humor, satire, and dialogue. Illustrating Asia is a fascinating book on a subject that is of wide and topical interest. All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asian countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. The contributors treat comic and narrative art—including comic books, comic strips, picture books, and humor and fan magazines—in both historical and socio-cultural perspectives, as well as portrayals of ancient Chinese philosophy, gender, and the enemy in cartoons and comics. Contributors: Laine Berman, John A. Lent, Fusami Ogi, Rei Okamoto, Ronald Provencher, Aruna Rao, Kuiyi Shen, Shimizu Isao, Shu-chu Wei, Yingjin Zhang.

Author : Timothy Perper,Martha Cornog
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591589099

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Mangatopia by Timothy Perper,Martha Cornog Pdf

Fascinating insights on what Japanese manga and anime mean to artists, audiences, and fans in the United States and elsewhere, covering topics that range from fantasy to sex to politics. Within the last decade, anime and manga have become extremely popular in the United States. Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World provides a sophisticated anthology of varied commentary from authors well versed in both formats. These essays provide insights unavailable on the Internet, giving the interested general reader in-depth information well beyond the basic, "Japanese Comics 101" level, and providing those who teach and write about manga and anime valuable knowledge to further expand their expertise. The topics addressed range widely across various artists and art styles, media methodology and theory, reception of manga and anime in different cultural markets, and fan behavior. Specific subjects covered include sexually explicit manga drawn and read by women; the roots of manga in Japanese and world film; the complexity of fan activities, including "cosplay," fan-drawn manga, and fans' highly specific predilections; right-wing manga; and manga about Hiroshima and despair following World War II. The book closes with an examination of the international appeal of manga and anime.

Author : Patrick W. Galbraith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781478007012

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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith Pdf

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.