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Raunchy manga title isn’t quite what it seems…or it is?
Gugure! Kokkuri-san Is Now on Hulu
Sword Art Online II episode 18
VIZ Media Launches Fall 2014 Anime and Manga Survey
VIZ Media has launched its Fall 2014 anime and manga survey. Everyone who participates can get a chance to enter a contest to win a VIZ Media anime prize pack; the winner will be notified around December 1, 2014.
You can take the survey here.
Log Horizon 2 Is Now on Hulu
Japanese student draws functional QR code on school chalkboard, you’ll never guess where it leads
Awesome
Log Horizon 2 – Episode 5
This week was easily, far and away the best episode of Log Horizon S2. I guess this is kind of what Log Horizon does? We slowly gather pieces, set up conflicts, establish character issues, and then all that work is paid into the conclusions. That seems like an oversimplification, though – frankly, this episode almost felt like it was created by an entirely different director. Maybe it was? The scenes bounced and built off each other, the shot framing actually elevated the mood, and there was even an impressive and well-directed fight scene at the end. More of this, please.
NOVEMBER 3: The god of manga is born
ON THIS DATE in 1928, Osamu Tezuka was born in Toyonaka, Japan. At eighteen in 1947 he created “New Treasure Island” and launched the golden age of manga.
Japanese comics, known as manga, had been around for years, but Tezuka’s cinematic story telling and distinctive large-eyes style of drawing created the template that others would follow. TIME in 2003 said the cartoonist “more or less invented Japanese comics” and the Anime News Network in 2009 said he “literally invented the genre of Japanese anime” (Japanese film and television animation).
The breakthrough came in 1947 with his “New Treasure Island,” a 190-page tale of pirates and gold that is often cited as the launching point of Japan’s postwar comics boom.
Four years later, Tezuka introduced Astro Boy, a robot with superpowers created by a scientist as a replacement for his dead son. A serialized manga from 1951 to 1968, “Astro Boy” became…
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