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Move over karaoke, Japan offers talk-along 'anime' machine

Tags: anime, karaoke, non-academic, dubbing on 2008-04-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Live Action Anime? Only at MIT!

Tags: academic, anime, cosplay, dubbing, fans_otaku, theatre, visual_language on 2007-12-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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the many ways that anime crosses over from the "virtual" to the
"real." The most obvious example is cosplay and the many forms of licensed merchandise,
such as toys and models, that in effect bring anime through the screen and into
people's hands. When fans take anime and manga characters, and use them to create their
own fanzine manga (dÃ´jinshi), a similar kind of translation effect is underway, that
is, taking imagined characters, re-imagining through our own minds, and the creating
something new in the world.
Anime creators always struggle with challenge of bringing the "real" into

the "virtual" space of animation.
Anime fans have long debated whether Anime is best understood as a genre (or perhaps a set of related genres), as an aesthetic style, as a mode of production, or as a transmedia phenomenon.
Cyberpunk has long been a vehicle for authors and animators to reflect upon the influence of media on contemporary culture
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- From Wikipedia: "Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and mega corporations. They tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far future settings or galactic vistas found in novels like Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune. "
  posted by nele_noppe on 2007-12-18
captured the anime aesthetic
The performers developed their 'signature poses' and we worked from those to generate a language of motion. In the end, it was much harder than I thought it might be, to go through the entire piece in this sort of 'physical karaoke' but without ever speaking a word. It helped us reconsider the importance of breath and sound as components of human expression, because in the live action anime, working with the pre-recorded soundtracks, the performers never got to make a sound.
creating phrases with our bodies.