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11 Dec 09

Rap and manga - new roads to Nirvana in Japan



  • Elsewhere in Tokyo, the suburban Ryohoji temple attracted hundreds of people for last month's autumn festival by drawing on the power of manga comics and the quirky youth cult of Cosplay, or costume-play.



    Girls sporting frilly maid uniforms and sets of fluffy cat-ears -- the latest in comic-inspired costuming and usually a more common sight in Tokyo's geeky manga cafes -- greeted visitors to the 16th century temple.



    Benzaiten, the goddess of knowledge, music and the arts, was depicted as a doe-eyed cartoon character on a sign at the temple, which also offered short cellphone video downloads of chief monk Shoko Nakazato chanting prayers.

09 Nov 09

'Manga' library opens at Meiji University

  • A library opened in Tokyo last weekend featuring traditional "manga" comic books that were popular nearly half a century ago and a rare collection of romantic manga for women.











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    The Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture, which opened Saturday at Meiji University's Surugadai campus in Chiyoda Ward, is stocked with most comic books published in Japan in the 1960s and later.

  • The Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture, which opened Saturday at Meiji University's Surugadai campus in Chiyoda Ward, is stocked with most comic books published in Japan in the 1960s and later.
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Interview: Fred Schodt - Anime News Network

  • I'm always amazed at the number of graduate students (in particular) that are doing theses on Japanese anime. Personally, I hope people just enjoy the material, because it's supposed to be entertainment. I'm not a big fan of hardcore deconstruction...
  • That would be my own personal inclination. Rather than deconstructing a work, I like to look at it as a vehicle to understanding something larger.
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