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Big Comic
is a semimonthly ''seinen'' manga magazine published since 18 February 1968 by Shogakukan in Japan. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1968. It is paired with sister magazine ''Big Comic Original'', going on sale in the weeks ''Big Comic Original'' does not. Circulation in 2008 was reported at slightly over a half-million copies. but by mid-2015 had declined to 315,000, Retrieved Oct. 28, 2015. as part of an industry-wide trend in manga magazine sales. The magazine has published works by a number of well-known |
Seinen Manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word ''seinen'' literally means "youth", but the term "''seinen'' manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like ''Weekly Manga Times'' and ''Weekly Manga Goraku'' which cater specifically to men's interests, and are marketed towards a demographic of young adult men between the ages of 18 and 40. ''Seinen'' manga are distinguished from ''shōnen'' manga which are for young teen boys, although some ''seinen'' manga like '' xxxHolic'' share similarities with ''shōnen'' manga. ''Seinen'' manga can focus on action, politics, science fiction, fantasy, relationships, sports, or comedy. The female equivalent to ''seinen'' manga is ''josei'' manga. ''Seinen'' manga have a wide variety of art styles and variation in subject matter. Examples of ''seinen'' series include: '' Berserk'', '' AKIRA'', '' 20th Century Boys'', ''One Punch Man'', ''Golden Kamuy'', ''Ghost in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Distant Neighborhood
is a Japanese manga by Jiro Taniguchi. It was adapted into a live-action French-Belgian film in 2010. Plot Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother's grave. Then, for reasons he cannot explain, Hiroshi is transported over 30 years into the past, reacquainting himself with the family he has since lost and the individual memories he has since forgotten. See also * ''17 Again'' (2009 film) * ''Again!!'' (2011 manga) * ''Erased'' (2012 manga) * ''ReLIFE'' (2013 manga) *Tokyo Revengers is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Wakui. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from March 2017 to November 2022, with its chapters collected in 30 ''tankōbon'' volumes as of November 2022. A ... References External links * * Gekiga Jiro Taniguchi Live-action films based on manga Manga adapted into films Seinen manga Shogakukan manga Shogakukan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukinobu Hoshino
is a Japanese manga artist. Life He was born in Kushiro, Hokkaidō and dropped out of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music after two years of studying mid-semester from the fine arts department. He moved to Tokyo in order to pursue a career as a professional manga artist.Urasawa, Naoki (2020). 星野之宣 oshino Yukinobu ''Urasawa Naoki no Manben''. NHK Educational TV. He made his professional debut in 1975 with ''Kotetsu no Queen''. At the age of 21, he won the Tezuka Award for an outstanding manga of a newcomer artist for ''Harukanaru Asa'' and Osamu Tezuka personally highly praised it. He became known for his science fiction manga. An early success came in 1976, when he wrote '' Blue City'' for ''Weekly Shonen Jump''. He won an Excellence Prize at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival for ''Munakata Kyouju Ikouroku''. He works from his home in Sapporo. Style He liked Osamu Tezuka's and Jiro Kuwata's science fiction manga while growing up and watching ''200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumi Saimon
is a female Japanese manga artist and novelist. She is best known for the series ''Tokyo Love Story'', which was adapted as a live-action television series. She won the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for '' P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei'' and the 1992 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for '' Kazoku no Shokutaku'' and ''Asunaro Hakusho''. She is married to manga artist Kenshi Hirokane is a Japanese manga artist from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. He graduated from Waseda University with a degree in law, then worked for Matsushita Electric for four years, before making his manga debut in 1974 with ''Kaze Kaoru''."Manga Snapshot: Big Comic .... References External links * Profile at The Ultimate Manga Page Japanese female comics artists Female comics writers Living people Women manga artists Manga artists from Tokushima Prefecture People from Tokushima (city) Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General) 1957 births Japanese women writers Japanese writers< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikio Igarashi
is a Japanese manga artist born 13 January 1955 in the town of Nakaniida (now Kami), Kami District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, though he lives in the city of Sendai. He is best known for his manga series ''Bonobono'' and ''Ninpen Manmaru''. In 1988, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for ''Bonobono'' and the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga for ''Ninpen Manmaru''. Profile After leaving before graduating, Igarashi worked for an advertising company in their print shop. While working there, he made his professional debut as a manga artist in 1972. Works *''Bonobono'' *''Ninpen Manmaru'' *''Kamurobamura-e'' *''Hitsuji no Ki is a Japanese manga series written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami and illustrated by Mikio Igarashi. Published by Kodansha, it was serialized in the ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Evening'' from June 2011 to April 2014, with its chapters compiled into five ...'' (2011-2014) References External links Profileat The Ultimate Manga Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamurobamura-e
is a Japanese slice of life comedy ''seinen'' manga series written and illustrated by Mikio Igarashi. It was published by Shogakukan, with four volumes released. A live action film adaptation titled , directed by Suzuki Matsuo, was released on April 4, 2015. Plot Based on a manga series, the film stars Matsuda Ryuhei and concerns a man who develops a deep fear of money who moves to a small and remote village to deal with his phobia. The story takes place in Tōhoku region. Former bank clerk Takeharu thought he was strange when he moved to a remote village in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region after developing an inexplicable “money allergy.” However, as he attempts to live a peaceful rural life without currency, Kamuroba village's bizarre characters draw him out of his shell in this increasingly surreal madcap comedy. However, when a nearby town leader attempts to overthrow the handyman bus driver mayor, Takeharu must prove his attachment to Kamuroba and its people. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamui (1964 Manga)
is a manga series written and drawn by Sanpei Shirato. Set in feudal Japan, it tells the story of a low-born ninja who has fled his clan. The series combines historical adventure with social commentary and themes of oppression and rebellion that reflect Shirato's Marxist convictions. Plot Kamui is a ninja from the Edo period who has decided to leave his clan. After doing so he is pursued relentlessly by the members of his former clan; who consider him to be a traitor and therefore wish to kill him. Kamui then wanders around Japan to escape from them by using his intelligence and great abilities to survive. In the course of the series Kamui begins to suffer from paranoia because of his status as a persecuted man. Kamui then started to believe that everybody wished to murder him and became distrusting of everyone he came across. Publication The original series, , ran from December 1964 to July 1971 in the monthly gekiga magazine ''Garo''. The sequel titled ran from 1982 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Laughing Salesman
is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko Fujio. The manga began as a one-shot series serialized in Shogakukan's ''Big Comic'' magazine on 1968, later becoming a full-fledged series published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's ''Manga Sunday'' magazine from 1969 to 1971. The manga tells the story of a salesman named Moguro Fukuzou, whose job is to help people fill gaps in their soul. In reality, he often ruins the lives of his clients if they do not follow his strict instructions or if they betray his trust. It is notable in Japan as the only series by the Fujiko Fujio duo to be darker and more mature in its themes than their previous works. An anime adaptation was produced by Shin-Ei Animation, directed by Toshirō Kuni and written by Yasuo Tanami. It aired on TBS from October 10, 1989 to December 28, 1993 with a total of 127 episodes. A second anime adaptation aired on Tokyo MX from April 3 to June 19, 2017. Plot Society is filled with people who struggle through their li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidamari No Ki
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka about a friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. ''Hidamari no Ki'' received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1984 for general manga. The story is partly based on Tezuka's great-grandfather who was one of the Japanese physicians pushing for acceptance of Western medical practice at the time. The title is a metaphor for the Tokugawa shogunate which is compared to an old camphor tree which has enjoyed the sunshine and shelter from the winds for 300 years, but is slowly dying because it is being eaten away from the inside by termites and gribbles. It has been adapted into an anime series, by Madhouse and premiered in Japan on NTV on April 4, 2000. It also was adapted into a television drama, and also a 2021 stage play starring Sugeta Rinne of the boyband 7 MEN Samurai. Plot The story follows two young men whose lives intersect during the political turbulence and soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gringo (manga)
is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1987 in the Shogakukan manga magazine ''Big Comic''. Plot In 1982, the Edo Shoji Corporation is a large Japanese trading company that has created a new branch in the fictional country of Cannibalia (or Kanivaria depending on how you transcribe it). Executive Director Yabushita assigns Hitoshi Himoto to be the head of the new South American office, which is an exceptional promotion for Hitoshi. Having joined the workforce after his days of being a sumo wrestler, Hitoshi finds himself rapidly climbing the corporate ladder. However, not long after he is assigned to South America, Director Yabushita suddenly resigns from the company. Apparently he was involved in a scandalous affair with a woman and forced to leave after news of the affair had leaked. This severely affects Hitoshi as he is then demoted and transferred to a different location in South America. Hitoshi finds himself assigned to the city of Esecarta in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiji Kawaguchi
is a Japanese manga artist. He is known for works such as ''The Silent Service'', ''Zipang (manga), Zipang'', ''A Spirit of the Sun'' and ''Kūbo Ibuki''. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. Early life and career In elementary school, Kaiji and his younger identical twin brother Kyōji became engrossed in manga. Kyōji took over running the Kawaguchi family business, but was also a manga artist before dying in 2013. Kaiji's daughter Nirako is an illustrator, while his eldest son Kōhei is a Kanze (Noh school), Kanze noh actor. In 1968, Kaiji made his professional debut with ''Yoru ga Aketara'' in ''Young Comic'' at age 21, while still attending Meiji University. Influences and style Kawaguchi was influenced by Shinji Nagashima, Tatsuhiko Yamagami's ''Hikaru Kaze'', and Tadao Tsuge. He also said that if it were not for the freedom and more adult material seen in ''gekiga'', he probably would not have become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Making Of An Asian-American President
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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