Manga

Prologue Everyone remembers the time when they first put on the Pyima visor to play the greatest game in the wotld. The Visor was the first of it's kind. It had a field of view that fully immersed you. The visor consisted 16k resolution screens on each side, giving amazing imagry detail to the wearer. The visor is the size of ski goggles that are lighter then most goggles. One of the best things about the visor was that it was able to scan the wearer's body and face, It could also scan space…

One can safely say that the Hallyu wave of Korean pop culture, specifically K-pop and K-dramas have taken off throughout Latin America. Scholarship has recently conducted research on different aspects surrounding the landing of the Korean wave in Central and South America, and this paper will attempt to piece them together to create one cohesive narrative of the spread of Korean culture throughout the region. It will also somewhat focus on the countries of Peru and Brazil, where the effects of…

Fine Arts and Music, obtaining BFA in painting (1986), later completed by PhD degree (1993). His iconography, full of equally cute and psychedelic representations, is often seen as a weird amalgam of East and West mass culture, inspired by anime and manga, comics and cartoons, as well as the American Pop Art. Takashi Murakami has conquered both international art scene and commercial media, exhibiting his work since 1988. Some of his first shows were "Jan Hoet's Vision" (1991) presented in…

Marine? Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail manga/anime and One Piece. manga/anime Ch.3. Wave towards Darkness It has been a few days since the fight with the Black Cat Pirates and their Captain Kuro. As well getting the Merry Go a caravel class ship design by Merry and given by Kaya as a gift for saving her life from Kuro. Currently they were somewhere North of Syrup Village. Luffy the Captain of the crew with short, messy black hair with a two stitches scar underneath his left eye. Currently he…

union of Attis and Magna Mater, they also drank alcohol and used drugs during the celebrations. The worship of Magna Mater was only allowed for noncitizens of Rome, but during a war, an oracle predicted a loss unless the city of Rome built a temple to Manga Mater. The followers of Magna Mater performs a rebirth ritual called taurobolium. They would sacrifice a bull by slitting its throat and bathing in the blood. This bloodbath was meant to cleanse them and allow them to have an afterlife. This…

Cute is everywhere in Japan, from formal to casual use, from food to fashion. Kawaii or cute is defined as childlike with the celebration of sweet and vulnerable behavior and physical appearance. (Skov& Moeran, 1995) It is highly valued by Japanese, seems like a national ethos, but also the representation of Japan’s soft power. Its influence extended beyond the border of Japan and permeated into foreign countries due to consumerism, especially in the United States. Nevertheless, people seem to…

Luciano uses many different art mediums and styles to express himself. Miguel Luciano has used Japanese Manga with Puerto Rican influences to show his heritage and at times to make a statement. One of the pieces of art I enjoyed of Luciano’s was Exterminio De Nuestro Indios which is a pop art/ political/ traditional piece that shows Ronald McDonald as Columbus…

ukiyo-e prints which slowly shows the influence in his painting. Edgar Degas assimilated the lessons of Japanese dramatic composition, viewpoint and perspective, such as cutting off figures with the picture frame. Degas studied Katsushika Hokusai’s Manga, a particularly popular Japanese source from which Europeans continually borrowed motifs, and he understood Hokusai’s world more clearly. Hokusai’s vision was echoed in Degas’s favorite themes of washerwomen at work in the hot steamy laundries,…

This image was taken at the 2009 LBZ convention in London, and is of a group of people who are cosplaying as characters from the anime Hellsing. Cosplay is a term that means to dress up or role play, usually as characters from an anime, manga, or a book. In Laura Collins essay backpacks vs briefcases, she goes into how an important part of rhetorical analysis is its context (Collins). She says this because to be able to analyze something you must be able to understand it. The context is what…

is a great example of Japanese inspired paintings, using the nature theme and using the swirling brush strokes to give it a unique look. Even now, modern artists are inspired by Japanese artwork, one of the most recognizable styles being anime and manga. Furniture is something that we use every day. It can be anything from the chair you’re sitting on to the couch in your living room. Did you know that Japan influenced the way your furniture looks? It’s true! The Victorian era is what helped…