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in title, tags, annotations or urlJapan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex - 0 views
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Manga sales in the US have tripled in the past four years.
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Europe has caught the bug, too. In the United Kingdom, the Catholic Church is using manga to recruit new priests. One British publisher, in an effort to hippify a national franchise, has begun issuing manga versions of Shakespeare's plays, including a Romeo and Juliet that reimagines the Montagues and Capulets as rival yakuza families in Tokyo.
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Circulation of the country's weekly comic magazines, the essential entry point for any manga series, has fallen by about half over the last decade.
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Pokémon and international politics? - 0 views
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She identifies Pokémon as a media form that has defined the current framework, laying the groundwork for peer-to-peer communication and creation of media. While the current generation has outgrown Pokémon, the game franchise shaped how global youth think about culture and gaming. It linked analog and digital media, she proposes, by creating an electronic game that later manifested as a collectible card game, manga, anime, toys and other media. It put portability at the center of the media mix, and helped establish Japanese media content as a transnational source of cultural capital
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She sees a generation of kids engaging in a set of cultural practices - cutting, pasting, linking and forwarding in spaces like MySpace
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Individual identity is no longer consumer or producer - there’s a middle ground that includes connoisseur and amateur.
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The Road to Comiket - 0 views
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held twice a year in August and December at the Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Japan, and attracts over 450,000 participants over its three day run.
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primary focus of the event is the buying and selling of doujinshi
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Comiket is also known colloquially as the birthplace of cosplay and thousands of visitors come dressed as their favorite anime, manga and game characters as well.
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fanthropology: Different "universes" - 0 views
Slash Fandom on the Internet, Or, Is the Carnival Over? - 0 views
Japan to Legalise Dojinshi? - 0 views
漫画の達人―マンガと同人誌のすべてがわかる - 0 views
マンガと著作権―パロディと引用と同人誌と - 0 views
コミックマーケット30'sファイル―1975‐2005 - 0 views
おたく少女の経済学―コミックマーケットに群がる少女達 - 0 views
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