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Nele Noppe

Okazu: Who Will Think of the Children? 誰が子供達のことを考えてくれるのか？ - 0 views

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non-academic manga children censorship law digital_manga homosexuality

shared by Nele Noppe on 14 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • I don't think this ordinance is the end of the world, but I do think it will hasten the end of the printed manga industry. Readers all over the world have been waiting for the push that will provide them with online versions of their favorite comics. I believe that this law will be that push. It will force publishing companies to move more explicit work underground - the online world is eminently suited for that. Less questionable materials will follow, because printing on paper costs more than not printing on paper and distribution costs less for digital material. There is a provision for the industry to self-regulate and, like most obscenity laws, this one may be hard to enforce, except for when someone is running for office and picks some scapegoat to make an example of. (As happened with Christopher Handley, who was sacrificed to a campaign strategy.)
  • I worry a bit about group shows like Comiket. Like Tokyo Anime Fair, it is held in Tokyo, where the ordinance has been passed. If you were a creator of materials that are regulatable, would you bring them to a public show right now? Consider that the law goes into effect on July 1, but in the half million people at Winter Comiket, there may be people who will be tasked with rounding up the creators next summer. Sure, it could go underground, become "a hydra," but what does that do for an already tenuous industry? It pushes extreme fetishists under the table to continue doing what they are doing, and leaves all the other creators sort of out there to be harassed. Probable? No. Possible? Yes.
  • 2nd Update: Brian Ruh on Twitter has pointed out that this Ordinance focuses on companies and their access to distribution, not creators, so at least for the moment, Comiket and other markets are not targeted.
Nele Noppe

Copyright quandary - 0 views

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copyright dojinshi fanwork non-academic

shared by Nele Noppe on 06 Dec 07 - Cached
  • Sales of fanzines had never really caused big problems so long as they were done only at one-day fanzine exhibitions. However, some fanzines now sell in the thousands or tens of thousands of copies due to an increase in the number of bookstores selling them and the popularity of Internet shopping.
  • Even after the man had stopped selling it by himself, his fanzine carrying Doraemon’s “final” episode continued to be sold at Internet auctions, sometimes going for tens of thousands of yen.
  • Yet the series remains unfinished due to Fujiko’s death in 1996.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • We also cannot overlook the number of copies sold – 13,000 was too many.”
  • But we don’t categorically reject fanzines in general (as a base of manga culture) as long as they remain within reasonable bounds.
  • “If publishers basically approve the existence of such fanzines, the creation of a new rule should be studied, which would require fanzines selling more than a certain number of copies to pay part of their profits to copyright holders,” said Yukari Fujimoto, a social critic.
Nele Noppe

マスメディアにおける女性表現の単一次元性 : 雑誌メディアにおけるマンガとグラビアの分析 - Unidimensional expression of f... - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 06 Dec 07 - Cached
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    収録誌 社会心理学研究 Research in social psychology Vol.8, No.1(19930122) pp. 1-8 日本社会心理学会 ISSN:09161503 書誌情報 マスメディアにおける女性表現の単一次元性 : 雑誌メディアにおけるマンガとグラビアの分析 Unidimensional expression of female figures in mass media : The analysis of comics and gravures in magazines 豊田 秀樹 1 福富 護 2 西田 智男 3 TOYODA Hideki 1 FUKUTOMI Mamoru 2 NISHIDA Tomoo 3 1大学入試センター研究開発部 2東京学芸大学教育学部 3東京学芸大学教育学研究科 1Research Division National Center for University Entrance Examination 2Department of Educational Psychology, Tokyo Gakugei University 3Graduate School of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University キーワード 性的次元 マンガ グラビア 数量化III類 人物描写 　　　　　　　 sexual dimension comic gravure Quantification Type III,expression of figure 抄録 The purpose of this study is to show the existence of sexual unidimension of female expressions in comics and gravures in the magazines. 1221 comics and 6861 gravures in 332 magazines published in June, 1989 were collected. The numbers of figures which can be categolized with sex and certain conditions of expression were counted. The frequency tables were analyzed by Quantification type III. The major findings were: (1) most of the expression of female figures in magazines can be explained by an unidimensional scale, named Degree of Exposure. (2) The degree of female expression tends to be more unidimensional in gravures than in comics.
Nele Noppe

A few thoughts about the state of manga publishing - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 24 Dec 08 - Cached
  • The strong showings by Fruits Basket, Kitchen Princess, and Vampire Knight are no mean feat, as none of these series have an anime adaptation airing on Cartoon Network—which, according to industry wisdom, is an essential pre-condition for turning a manga into a mega-hit.* Girls’ voracious, omnivorous reading habits have made hits of shojo and shonen titles alike, suggesting that the industry can survive the end of Naruto without a Black Friday crash—girls will always find a new series to champion, even if it doesn't air on Cartoon Network.
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Modern 'Bible Illuminated' Includes Celebrity Photos - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 08 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Another new version of the Bible, based on Japanese comics, gives the Scriptures a futuristic twist. Mecha Manga Bible Heroes, a line of comic books hitting stores in November, is meant to teach and entertain. “They have robots, advanced technology, and we’re using manga animation, which is the Japanese style of comics,” said Paul Castiglia, managing editor of the publisher JMG Comics. “In Mecha Manga, we’ve changed the setting, but the characters are the same. The names are the same. The themes and morals are the same,” Castiglia said. “We tried to adhere to the Bible as closely as possible.” The creators hope that the manga version of the Bible will pique the interest of a younger audience, so that they would read the standard editions of the Bible as well.
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Shuchaku East: Aging Up the Ladder - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 22 Aug 08 - Cached
  • OEL creators are constrained by this same limitation, and have accordingly adapted their creative offerings to appeal to a big, young chunk of the market. Which brings us to the big, omnipresent thing that OEL titles simply don’t have at this point, and one of the domains that manga must concede to US creations: the ability to tell a distinctly American story in a manga format and have it be written by an American author.
  • The issue isn’t that it can’t be done, but rather, that our current market won’t allow it to be. Even if a visionary, thoughtful creator emerged and produced a visionary, groundbreaking piece of work, who would publish it? OEL is on shaky legs as it is. Ask a company to take a risk on an adult oriented, culturally serious title?
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The Comics Reporter - 0 views

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comics gender marketing non-academic

shared by Nele Noppe on 29 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Although I imagine the finger will be pointed at a lack of effective marketing -- 1) every market failure can be seen as a failure of marketing, 2) effective target marketing is a legitimate problem within comics, 3) people in comics like to invoke marketing as a sort of magic pixie dust -
  • My gut says that a bigger set of factors may have been more along the lines of what I would call structural: how/if to sell these books through Direct Market accounts,
  • where to shelve them in bookstores,
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  • Minx did a good job with the marketing. They just forgot to ask us to put the books in the right place. It's that simple.
  • "Where to shelve them is everything," Smith wrote. "The spine is everything. Manga publishers understand this. Marvel and DC don't have a clue."
  • No matter how much money you spend on outside marketing, twenty-two months is a brutally short time in which to nurture a comics imprint.
  • it also stands as a vote of no-confidence from one of comics' biggest entities in doing comics their way for that market -- or, really, any market not superheroes.
Nele Noppe

Occasional Superheroine: The Plain Janes Have Left The Building - 0 views

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comics gender marketing non-academic

shared by Nele Noppe on 29 Sep 08 - Cached
  • But Minx had the same vulture standing over it that I've seen time and time again -- that I saw with Virgin, that I saw with CrossGen, that I've seen with countless imprints and publishers that didn't quite know how to precisely target and capture its niche audience -- or even really knew who that audience was.
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