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However, the Australian law is very vaguely worded, and I fear it’s going to cause as much harm as it may cause good. For example, from an academic’s perspective, it’s clear that one of the problems of this legislation is that it will have a very strong chilling effect on Australian scholars interested in studying anime, manga, slash, and yaoi, or even other forms of sex/uality, because of the sheer possibility that clicking on a link, ordering a movie or manga, or even purchasing an academic book or reading a journal article on the subject might expose one to an image that could be interpreted as “child pornography” under Australian law.
Amazon.com: Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan (Asia's Transformations) (97804153... - 1 views
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Not really new, but might be useful to have on one's bookshelves!
Australian Anime, Manga & Slash Fans May Run Afoul of Law | Dru Pagliassotti - 1 views
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In 2010 the Australian Government proposes to go ahead with a mandatory ISP-level internet filtering scheme which, if passed into law, could have a massive impact on anime, manga and slash fans. Why manga and slash fans? Because the main target of the law is to prevent the circulation of 'child abuse sexual imagery' - BUT in Australia 'child abuse sexual imagery' covers even FICTIONAL representations and includes 'under age' characters in anime, manga and slash. If the law is passed, any fan site that contains or links to this material could be added to a government 'blacklist' and access denied in Australia.
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This is an important news for both fans and scholars of fanfictions and dojinshi.
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! ;-)
An introduction to anime music videos (AMVs) | upxy - 1 views
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This is a brief introduction to amvs, these forms of fanart based on the combination of the person's favorite animes, animes' scenes and musics. It is a perfect manifestation of the desire to appropriate bits and pieces of contents and recombine them into something new and personal.
Learning Japanese via 'manga' - 3 views
ROME REPORTS TV News Agency - Saints make the leap to manga - 1 views
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Real manga saints, straight from the Vatican!
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.
World's biggest manga, anime and video game archive facility, Tokyo International Manga... - 1 views
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World’s biggest manga, anime and video game archive facility, Tokyo International Manga Library, set to open in 2014
Icarus Publishing · Last thoughts on Detergent Magma - 1 views
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I believe I’ve done this before, but given some of the stuff I’ve been reading on forums and the like, I feel the need to once again address plagiarism and doujinshi, especially how the two are not related.
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Yet how do Japanese artists and readers reconcile their rejection of plagiarism with the wanton copyright infringement observed in most doujinshi? Well, plagiarism is only a subset of copyright infringement, one which seeks to obscure true authorship. Parody doujinshi are derivative work, but there is no confusion over the originator of the characters and ideas, no attempt to hide the source. And there is still an expectation that the expression is original, that what one sees in a doujinshi – the artistry, the craft, the performance – is honest and real. Comic art is indeed a performance, the paper is its stage. Sometimes, one might borrow other characters for his play, but one cannot scratch the name off the director’s chair and replace it with his own.
Tokyo Faces Loli Ban | Sankaku Complex - 1 views
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An extreme stealth ban on loli material extending to “clothing or voices reminiscent of a person under the age of 18” has been proposed as an amendment to Tokyo’s regional laws, with clear nationwide implications. A summary of the relevant passages from the proposed amendment: Any literature or film which might be thought to constitute a depiction of sexual activity involving or apparently involving a person under 18, someone dressed in a manner reminiscent of an under-18, or who speaks like an under-18, may not in Tokyo be viewed by or sold or distributed to any young person.
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[A ban on sales, lending or distribution to, or viewing by, minors in the Tokyo area would cover:] 1. Items which stimulate sexual emotions, foster cruelty, encourage suicide or promote crime, or otherwise impede the healthy growth of youth. [This clause is identical to current legislation] 2. Items which through age, clothing, accessories, school year, setting, other people’s ages, or voice, seems reminiscent of a person who might be recognised as an under-18 (hereafter called a “a fictional minor”) engaged in, or appearing to be engaged in, sexual activity or activity resembling sexual activity, or which impede the development of healthy sexual faculties in youths, or which might be feared to obstruct the healthy development of youths.
Healing Old Wounds with Manga Diplomacy - 1 views
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Japan's Wartime Manga Displayed at China's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum
Contesting Traumatic War Narratives: Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam - 1 views
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By William Ashbaugh, in "Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film"
Understanding Manga and Anime - 1 views
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By Robin Brenner
DA! Desktop Anime [Welcome] - 1 views
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Anime wallpapers.
The Center for Book Arts ~ Garo Manga, 1964-1973 - 1 views
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"Garo Manga, 1964-1973" will be an exhibition focused around the renowned manga (Japanese comics) journal Garo during the period of its greatest aesthetic experimentation and political commitment. Garo is well-known amongst comic enthusiasts and historians of postwar Japanese culture both for its challenging of formal and thematic conventions within the field of comics as well as for its engagement with the main political issues of the day, from rightwing incursions into national education policy to Japanese involvement in the Vietnam War.
Modern Art Asia - Reviews, Commentary and Peer-Reviewed Articles on Asian Art - 1 views
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Modern Art Asia is a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. For the rising generation of Asian art scholars, these works exist in a globalized interdisciplinary context at the intersection of scholarship, criticism, and the market. Founded to address the need within art history and art journalism for a space dedicated to the arts of Asia, Modern Art Asia combines peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibition reviews from international correspondents, providing a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic writing on art.
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