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Ariane Beldi

A glimpse of the future: Robots aid Japan's elderly residents - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    "He says the "Holy Grail" of Japanese developers has long been "to produce AstroBoy - a humanoid, companion robot." Hornyak says such a robot is likely possible in the long run, but he worries that pursuit of a Jetsons-style "servant robot in the household. .. has blinded (Japanese companies) to more common, useful possibilities.""
Ariane Beldi

Robot géant : de l'instrumentalisation à la fusion - 0 views

  • Robot géant : de l'instrumentalisation à la fusion Image: Gundam Seed WebL'histoire de la science-fiction manifeste le désir immarcescible de modifier l'homme. Aujourd'hui la science semble permettre une telle évolution et l'on peut désormais espérer accéder à un autre niveau de vie grâce au développement de la génétique, de la cybernétique ou de l'informatique. On désigne désormais par les termes d'« homme augmenté »1 les multiples possibilités d'amélioration de l'humain par l'artificiel. La culture de masse reflète et innerve ces aspirations à une transformation de l'homme. Aux Etats-Unis, ce rêve d'un « surhomme » se manifeste à travers la bande dessinée et les dessins animés populaires, qui ont durant longtemps propagé l'image d'un « super-héros » comme Superman, Spiderman, Batman, X-men. Au Japon, il semble que cette figure surhumaine soit remplacée par celle de « supers robots ». L'importance de ces machines dans les manga et les anime Japonais est liée à un genre et à un contexte socioculturel particulier. Connu en France par le biais de la diffusion de Goldorak, le robotto anime (dessin animé de robots) a longtemps servi d'image d'Epinal pour désigner les productions nippones. Ce genre spécifique à la science-fiction Japonaise cultive un imaginaire des rapports entre l'homme et la machine qui se répand dans les pays où ces séries sont diffusées. Certains auteurs en viennent même à parler de diffusion d'un techno-orientalisme2.
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    Article about how the evolution of the mecha genre against the backdrop of Japanese recent history and the general reflection on the man-machine relationship as well as the mechanically-boosted human.
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    It is in French, but a very interesting article from one member of the Manga Network.
Nele Noppe

Robot model no challenge yet to human rivals - 0 views

  • AIST designers say the eyes, face and hair of the robot, which cost about $2 million to develop, are based on Japanese "anime" cartoon characters.
Ariane Beldi

Handley sentenced to six months in manga obscenity case | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resource... - 0 views

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    This is the epilogue of a long dispute over the legality or not of fictional literary materials deemed obsenes.
Nele Noppe

Lackluster Entries Prod Morning to Change Manga Competition - 0 views

  • The Morning editors' choice of the winners wasn't controversial so much as what they had to say about the quality (or lack thereof) of the entries they received from all over the world. Their assessment of the situation was blunt, and boiled down to this: International manga artists, don't send us more of what you think manga is. To the editors and judges of M.I.M.C., manga means "comics." They were fairly dismissive of the entries that "focused on bishojo, giant robots, ninja and the like," that left a "very narrow impression of 'manga' style."
Nele Noppe

Modern 'Bible Illuminated' Includes Celebrity Photos - 0 views

  • 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.
Nele Noppe

Inside the robot kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia - 0 views

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    by Frederik Schodt
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