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Fumi Yoshinaga
is a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and boys' love works. Life Fumi Yoshinaga was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. She discovered amateur manga, doujinshi, in junior high school, when a friend showed her a doujinshi depicting a romantic relationship between two male characters of '' Captain Tsubasa''. While still in school, she hid from others that she was an otaku in order to avoid bullying. She attended the prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. While at university, she joined a manga club in order to be able to talk to others about manga. When she read the popular manga series ''Slam Dunk'', she was inspired to create a gay love story based on the characters of Kogure and Mitsui. She continued making doujinshi throughout her time as a student and participated in doujinshi conventions.Toku, Masami (2007)Shojo Manga! Girls’ Comics! A Mirror of Girls’ Dreams ''Mechademia 2'' p. 25 Her professional career started as an addition to her activities as a doujinshi ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mechademia
''Mechademia: Second Arc'' is a biannual (formerly annual) peer-reviewed academic journal in English about Japanese popular culture products and fan practices. It is published by the University of Minnesota Press and the editor-in-chief is Frenchy Lunning. ''Mechademia'' has also held an annual conference since 2001. Volumes Since 2006, ten volumes have been published. Each volume is dedicated to a collection of articles themed around a specific topic, such as shojo manga or otaku, anime and manga fandom. It is indexed in Project MUSE and JSTOR. After a break of three years, a new series of ''Mechademia'' volumes (''Second Arc'') will be published beginning in 2018, the first being themed around childhood. The scope of ''Mechademia'' will be broadened to include all of Asia in its remit. Reception Steve Raiteri from Library Journal commends ''Mechademia'' as a "great first effort [...] bridg[ing] the gap between academics and fans." Christophe Thouny, wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
