Monday, November 17, 2014

What is Manga ?

Photo: Ofer Wolberger

Manga (漫画 Manga?) are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.[1] They have a very long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.[2]
In Japan, people of all ages read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, suspense, detective, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among others.[3] Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry

The term manga (kanji漫画hiraganaまんがkatakanaマンガAbout this sound listen English /ˈmæŋ.ɡə/ or /ˈmɑːŋ.ɡə/) is a Japanese word referring both to comics and cartooning. "Manga" as a term used outside Japan refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan

Manga-influenced comics, among original works, exist in other parts of the world, particularly in ChinaHong Kong, and Taiwan("manhua"), and South Korea ("manhwa").[14][15] In France, "la nouvelle manga" has developed as a form of bande dessinéecomics drawn in styles influenced by manga. There are also OEL manga in America too.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Naruto Volume 2

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The story so far, Kakashi had his team pass a survival test, but they didn’t understand its true purpose and failed. However he decided to give them another chance but with the condition not to give to Naruto any food as a punishment, but Sasuke and Sakura didn’t listen and decided to feed him so they can work together….
After finally succeeding, team 7 started accomplishing minor missions but Naruto wasn’t satisfied with it, that’s why they were assigned to guard and escort an old man named Tazuna…
Short after they quit the village, Naruto and co were attacked by 2 Ninjas, Those two were after Tazuna’s life. After That Tazuna explain to them the reason behind hiding such a fact, and gained the favor of getting help from team 7.
At Tazuna’s homeland, Kakashi and were attacked by a missing-nin named Zabuza.
Soon after the battle against the missing-nin started, The Jonin had his student stay back and protects Tazuna, Kakashi was trapped, inside a jail made of water, and his team was facing a great danger. That’s when Naruto came up with a strategy with witch Kakashi was freed…

At Home (Tazuna’s home) Kakashi suggest that Zabuza is alive and thus his pupil started preparing for the coming battle.

Terms: 
- A missing-nin is a ninja who deserted his village.
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Top 15 Best Anime Movies To Watch

Previously we posted Read the Top 20 best Manga of all time , so this time we afford the best anime movies to enjoy and watch later , many of this movies has been subbed and dubbed due to their huge success in Japan , but also to export these masterpieces to the rest of the world and enlarge its audience ..

15-brave story 
Its almost two hours long movie made by Gonzo.When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the chance. But on his quest to find the Tower of Fortune and be granted any wish, he must conjure up all his bravery to battle a world of demons, his own friends and ultimately himself.


14-Children who chase lost voices


A coming of age story involving young love and a mysterious music, coming from a crystal radio left as a memento by an absent father, that leads a young heroine deep into a hidden world.

13-Tsumiki no Ie (
The House of Small Cubes)



As his town is flooded by water, an old man is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life.

12- 5centimeters per second
 

Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.

11-Perfect Blue 

A retired pop-singer-turned-actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.


10-Colorful 



A sinful spirit is granted the opportunity to prove worthy for rebirth, inhabiting the body of a student who killed himself.

9-The place promised in our early days 


In an alternate postwar timeline, Japan is divided into the Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South.

8-Sword of a stranger 




A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.

7-Summer Wars 



A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend in her grandmother's 90th birthday.

6-Akira 



A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.

5-Kara no kyoukai ( Garden of sinners)

September 1998: A recent spate of unusual suicide incidents where several high school girls fell to their death, but left no suicide note and had apparently no reason to commit suicide. In this case, no apparent relationship. Shiki discovers that there is one thing in common and there is a strange force in the shadows behind this bizarre deaths. Will she discover the culprit before someone else's life is in danger?

4-Into the forest of fireflies light 


Hotaru is rescued by a spirit when she gets lost in a forest as a child. The two become friends, despite the spirit revealing that he will disappear if he is ever touched by a human.

3-Garden of Words



Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days.

2-The Girl Who Leapt Throw time 


Directed by Mamoru Hosoda. With Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi. A teenage girl finds that she has the ability to leap through time.

1-Wolf Children


Hana falls in love with a Wolf Man. After the Wolf Man's death, Hana decides to move to a rural town to continue raising her two wolf children Ame and Yuki.



Naruto Volume 1

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Naruto Uzumaki is an orphan; because he is a jinshuriki most of the villagers avoided him and think that he is a monster, that's why he always do anything just to make people notice (usually pranks). His marks at school and his combat skill were bad but he has a special skill which is determination....
In the first chapter we can see that he failed his graduation exam at first. But after he trained very hard he finaly graduated a become a genin (a ninja in training).
After that he encounter the grandson of the hokage, Sarutobi Konohamaru, whom wanted to become his pupile but became his rival.
Because Genin aren't experianced ninjas they are always put into a team of three under a Jonin (high level ninja) leader. Naruto Was put into a team seven with Sasuke Ushiha and Sakura Haruno, under their leader Kakashi Hatake.
Kakashi prepered a survival test for them, and told them that the price of failling will be going back to being students....

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Masashi Kishimoto

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asashi Kishimoto is a Japanese mangaka (manga artist), became famous for his manga Naruto, born 8 November 1974 at Nagi in Okoyama Prefecture, Japan. He has a twin brother named Seishi Kishimoto who is also a mangaka.


At an early age Kishimoto has a passion for drawing, even thaw he was a bad draftsman, he continued to practice and improving his skills. Once at high-school he dropped his dream thinking it was impossible, he even thought about starting a sport career but he finds out it was impossible; one day why he was riding his bicycle he noticed a poster about a movie called akira, that was what kishimoto needed to start his mangaka career, the flames of his old dream were revived.

                        Kishimoto worked on a numerous manga prototypes such as Asian Punk, but it was only at the age of 20 that he received The Hop Step Award, delivered by Shueisha editions, for his work karakuri.

                        Kishimoto started a new based on ramen; inspired from his birthplace, the military training base near, and some of his friends … that’s how the well-known Naruto series started.

The Manga: 
                    - Naruto

About Manga and anime creators



We watched , and loved a plenty of Anime movies and series , and its paper version the Manga , well we find it catchy and epic in all extensions that exist , so we have to take a look at the mens behind these pieces of art , something like the legendary Studio Ghibli , aind its founders .. 
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o , Studio Ghibli, Inc. is a Japanese animation film studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.[1] The studio is best known for its anime feature films, and has also produced several short films, television commercials, and one television film. It was founded in June 1985 after the success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Eight of Studio Ghibli's films are among the 15 highest-grossing anime films made in Japan, with Spirited Away (2001) being the highest, grossing over $274 million worldwide. Many of their works have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award, and four have won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. In 2002, Spirited Away won a Golden Bear and an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film..

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ne of its key names is Hayao Miyazaki ,the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of many of its films. On Sunday, September 1, 2013, Hayao Miyazaki , confirmed in a  press conference in Venice his retirement saying: "I know I've said I would retire many times in the past. Many of you must think, 'Once again.' But this time I am quite serious.
On August 3, 2014, Toshio Suzuki announced that Studio Ghibli would take a "brief pause" to re-evaluate and restructure in the wake of Miyazaki's retirement. He stated some concerns about where the company would go in the future.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

What you need to know about Anime OST




                    

 Joe Hisaishi
   The music used in a show. This includes background music, mood music, incidental music and opening and ending theme music. For longer TV series, there is often too much music to release on a single CD, so several OSTs will be released (often called OST1, OST2, etc.)

Typically, due to time restrictions, shows only use a portion of any particular piece of music, however the OST generally will contain the entire piece, giving fans an opportunity to listen to the music in its entirety.

Theme Music occurs either as Opening Theme (OP) or Ending Theme (ED). These are songs or music that occur while the opening or ending credits are rolling, and which serve to set a mood for the anime. Though they are sometimes not written originally for the anime, they tend to become strongly associated with it in the public mind.

Image Albums contain music composed on the basis of screenplay, long before anime production begins. The composer reads through the outline of the story, and composes music based on his / her feelings and imagination. Many scores from Image Albums will be incorporated into OST after being revised to match the animation.

Anime OSTs and Image Albums have long been heavily bootlegged. Up until recently, very few OSTs were licensed in North America, and imports from Japan are quite expensive. Demand, resulting from the growing popularity of anime, and the lack of a legitimate and affordable supply, resulted in a market that was very attractive and open to bootlegging

Like any type of cinematic creations , many artists had made a remarquable work with a monumental soundtracks and being a part of some of the most successful anime movies like the outstanding Joe Hisaishi , Yoko Kanno , Satoshi Takebe ...