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Ariane Beldi

IndianAuteur - 2 views

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    Indian Auteur is an independently run e-magazine, website, forum and blog started in Feb 2009.
Ariane Beldi

Japan Expo 2010 : En dépit d'une baisse, le marché du manga reste très toniqu... - 0 views

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    It is in French only, but an interesting article about the evolution of the manga market in France. It also highlights the progressive gaining of a foothold in Europe by Japanese publishers, especially through Viz Media Europe.
Ariane Beldi

Japan Makes English Evangelion Tourism Map, Poster - Anime News Network - 1 views

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    Rei Ayanami as a tourist guide into "Cool Japan".... She definitely is put through the mill, poor girl! ;-)
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.
Ariane Beldi

Psychanalyse du héros de manga - Manga news - 0 views

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    This advertises the publication of a study psychanalyzing the characters of several animes, which have been released in Europe for the last 30 years. This book is only in French for the moment.
Ariane Beldi

Rock legend Gene Simmons' son in manga plagiarism storm | CNNGo.com - 1 views

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    This is an additional ironic twist of fate. American pop music star copying Japanese mangas....when for decades, Japanese have been accused of copying everything that was coming from the West and being unable to create anything of their own. However, besides this anecdotic issue, this story points out another that is a lot more preoccupying, that is piracy and copyrights violation. From what I can see on the livejournal entry that offers a frame-by-frame comparison of Simmon's manga and Bleach, it does look like he has been heavily copying not only the graphic style but also the character design and whole scenes from Bleach. However, this doesn't really tell us how much Simmon actually took from Bleach, especially at the narrative level. Did he also heavily take from its story or did he simply inserted scenes that he found cool and inspiring within a fictional universe of his own? This isn't really clear from any of the comments. But then again, when one looks at the extraordinary resemblance between graphic design and characters from one manga to the other, it might also be difficult to accue him of plagiarism. After all, even though there is some diversity of representations in manga, it is kind of limited by some aesthetic codes. In the end, manga heroes within the same genres do tend to look extraordinarily alike to the point that it isn't rare to confuse them, if they are taken out of their original context.
Ariane Beldi

Manga Publishers, Comics Creators React to the Apple iPad - 2 views

  • One thing the iPad does that the Kindle and other e-readers can't match (yet) is that it presents pages in color, which opens up all kinds of possibilities, especially for magazines, graphic novels and yes, manga
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      Colour for manga??? Besides the first few pages of each chapter or album, they have been in black and white for the last 80 years! Actually, Kindle and other e-book readers were perfectly fit for manga!
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    Several interesting issues are laid out here: that of access to more mangas, but also the issue of country-by-country copyrights, the potential censorship exerted by Apple on adult contents, the issue of format lock, etc.
Ariane Beldi

ICv2 - A Second Bad Year in a Row for Manga - 1 views

  • Manga readers lack the “collector mentality” of comic book fans and also tend to be both young and tech savvy.  The fact that manga is “long-form” entertainment, with many series running to dozens of volumes (Naruto Vol. 48 is due out in June), even taking into account the fact that manga is very attractively priced compared with traditional American graphic novels, it is very expensive to collect the entire series in paper. 
    • Ariane Beldi
       
      Well, I'm not sure that manga readers lack the "collector mentality", since serialization is at the very basis of manga, but as pointed out later in the paragraph, collecting the 100+ volumes of Naruto or buying the 20+ boxes of its anime adaptation is probably out of reach for the younger wallets. Basically, the industry has tried to milk people a bit too much by producing over-extended narratives. Moreover, they might have over-estimated people's capacity to follow the same hero over decades. Only very few narratives have been able to achieve this feat.
Ariane Beldi

Underground Manga Find A Home in France - 2 views

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    The Ankama Group has announced their plans to move deeper into comics publishing, specifically manga publishing, with an initiative to kick off January 2011. Ankama, the Roubaix, France-based developer and publisher of comics, games, and cartoons in the DOFUS and Wakfu universes, has always maintained a sensitive if not sentimental connection to the visual and narrative disposition of manga artwork. Now, the group will put their passions for underground Japanese comics and art to healthy use by publishing a manga anthology, Akiba. The monthly collection presently aims to print the works of young or new Japanese manga-ka for consumption by French-speaking comics enthusiasts.
Ariane Beldi

BoysLove.fr - 2 views

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    This is my first contribution to this group since a long time, and unfortunately, it is in French only, but I thought it would be interesting nonetheless, since it is the website of a French mag devoted to Boy's Love.
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