the Man-Ken Club [message #43403] |
Sun, 17 March 2013 11:54 |
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MAN-KEN. Manga
Manken.
Released: Author & Artist Genre(s):
2011 Katou Daiki Comedy, School Life, Seinen
Higasa Sachi draws manga, but keeps it hidden from her classmates and
acts like a model student. Alice Toyozaki is openly otaku, draws manga
in class, and is bullied by her classmates. One day Sachi stands up
for Alice and is consequently invited to the manga research club.
Think Genshiken in High School and you will have an idea.
The club is the Manga Research Club and it is full of creative students,
drawing manga, some at professional level, creating
cosplay outfits, and breaking down internal barriers to their
creativity. Leader is nicknamed the Red Haired Demon.
Found it on Manga Fox. Only 4 chapters so far.
bliss
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Re: the Man-Ken Club [message #44959 is a reply to message #43403] |
Mon, 25 March 2013 11:25 |
Kenneth M. Lin
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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:ki4oto$lhk$1@dont-email.me...
MAN-KEN. Manga
Manken.
Released: Author & Artist Genre(s):
2011 Katou Daiki Comedy, School Life, Seinen
Higasa Sachi draws manga, but keeps it hidden from her classmates and
acts like a model student. Alice Toyozaki is openly otaku, draws manga
in class, and is bullied by her classmates. One day Sachi stands up
for Alice and is consequently invited to the manga research club.
Think Genshiken in High School and you will have an idea.
The club is the Manga Research Club and it is full of creative students,
drawing manga, some at professional level, creating
cosplay outfits, and breaking down internal barriers to their
creativity. Leader is nicknamed the Red Haired Demon.
Found it on Manga Fox. Only 4 chapters so far.
bliss
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There has been quite a few manga about aspiring manga artists. Bakuman
seems to be the most popular one and is created by the authors of extremely
popular Death Note.
From these manga you can see how Japanese school systems work. They really
don't push you if you don't want to study and do offer non-college tracks
that's clearly also non-vocational. They have two-year colleges for girls
that only prepares you to for at offices.
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Re: the Man-Ken Club [message #45007 is a reply to message #44959] |
Mon, 25 March 2013 13:52 |
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On 03/25/2013 08:25 AM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
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> "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:ki4oto$lhk$1@dont-email.me...
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> MAN-KEN. Manga
> Manken.
> Released: Author & Artist Genre(s):
> 2011 Katou Daiki Comedy, School Life, Seinen
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> Higasa Sachi draws manga, but keeps it hidden from her classmates and
> acts like a model student. Alice Toyozaki is openly otaku, draws manga
> in class, and is bullied by her classmates. One day Sachi stands up
> for Alice and is consequently invited to the manga research club.
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> Think Genshiken in High School and you will have an idea.
> The club is the Manga Research Club and it is full of creative students,
> drawing manga, some at professional level, creating
> cosplay outfits, and breaking down internal barriers to their
> creativity. Leader is nicknamed the Red Haired Demon.
> Found it on Manga Fox. Only 4 chapters so far.
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> bliss
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> There has been quite a few manga about aspiring manga artists. Bakuman
> seems to be the most popular one and is created by the authors of
> extremely popular Death Note.
Yes but popular does not equal better. I am buying Bakuman
and enjoying it but i have read stuff online
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> From these manga you can see how Japanese school systems work. They
> really don't push you if you don't want to study and do offer
> non-college tracks that's clearly also non-vocational. They have
> two-year colleges for girls that only prepares you to for at offices.
Yes I know about that. From Yawara if no where else, but
of course you see also in Genshiken where the members are in 4 year
schools but still are able to find time to spend on their hobbies.
And of course the 1st President who has been around for many years
more than 4 and finishes his thesis probably on Otaku behaviors
and interactions with non-Otaku, many years since he apparently
started the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.
A lot of older manga show the older style school not
the modern, more relaxed, educational system.
Some I liked were:
Flower of Life - manga - Fumi Yoshinaga
A slice of life in HS teachers, students, and families involved.
A student Harutaro is a year and a month behind as he has been
in treatment for leukemia. He is a premanga artist and makes
friends with a fat boy who is sympathetic and a female student
who is also a budding mangaka. Dojinshi are published.
Waiting for the 4th volume. Features Majima a nasty cold sort of
otaku comparable to the profit seeker in Genshiken. This is emotionally
realistic. Sex is off panel and the emotional qualities are more
emphasized. Had read part of it earlier. But Majima gets involved
with a female teacher.
MANGA NO TSUKURIKATA Manga
Categories: Comedy Romance Seinen Slice Of Life Yuri Shoujo Ai
Author: Hirao Auri
Summary
This manga is about a girl who debuted as a mangaka at the age of 13,
but no longer has any work as a mangaka at the age of 19. She decides to
once again be a mangaka after reading manga by someone named Sachi and
since girls love and boys love is currently popular she decides to go
out with a girl coworker named Morishita who is in love with her to gain
experience for her manga. However, she finds out that Morishita is Sachi!
Read the first 38 volumes on line by 5 pm Sunday 18 November 2012
(G) EDITION manga
Genre(s):Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
Author(s):Kawashita Mizuki
Status:Completed
(G) Edition Manga
Summary: A young girl (Kaburagi Aruto) aspiring to become a
shoujo mangaka, much to her chagrin, discovers she is fated to become a
renowned hentai manga artist (thanks to a time-traveling robot named
G-Maru who is also her biggest fan).
Very amusing.
G SENJOU HEAVENS DOOR Manga
G Battlefield; G戦場ヘヴンズドア
Released: Author & Artist Genre(s):
2001 Nihonbashi Yoko Drama, Mature, Seinen, Slice Of Life
It is the story of two boys, Machizo and Tetsuo, who create manga together.
Machizo's father is a successful mangaka (manga artist). Machizo feels
he's living under his father's shadow, and resents his father's success.
Tetsuo, who is at school with Machizo, enjoys drawing manga and is good
at it. His favorite mangaka happens to be Machizo's father. The two boys
strike up an alliance to draw a successful manga to win a contest, with
Machizo writing the story and Tetsuo drawing the graphics. An important
part is also played by a violent girl named Kimiko, who has a crush on
Tetsuo.
This may be better than Bakuman but the side characters
may keep it out of the states.
Now if you want a real life story of a great mangaka read
6/28/09 "A Drifting Life" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi is
a lightly fictionalized memoir in manga format running
to 856 pages,8 3/4" x 6 1/2" and 2 inches thick,on good
paper with paper covers
"A Drifting Life" starts about 1948 with the
young protagonist obsessed with creating manga and in
the midst of his troubled family before chronicling
the narrators journey into the world of manga meeting along
the way all the great mangaka of the period, and ending with
the Seventh Anniversary Memorial of the death of Tezuka Osamu
and the pseudonymous author's musing over a cup of coffee.
Despite the length it was easily a one day,
one setting read. Watch him as a child meet Tezuka as
a University student and see how he helped support his
family by "Postcard" manga contests. Read about the
proto-otaku of the time. His initial success and
exploitation by the publishers of the time.
His drive to create a manga beyond manga which
he call "gekiga" or drama manga to distinguish it from
the children's manga and the 4 panel manga strips which
were the main forms.
Nearly 50 years of manga and mangaka history
in manga. And if it is not precisely gekiga it will
do as well.
This is published by Drawn & Quarterly and I
found this copy at the local Borders for $29.95 when
I happened to have a 30% discount coupon and some
spare change courtesy of a friend.
I really enjoyed this and read it a couple
of times.
Spoiler Alert
Stop with this if you don't want Yawara spoilers.
But Yawara picks a 2 year school to study domestic science
which is how to be the best possible housewife apparently but she
moves then to work at a Travel agency which makes her a star
due to her Judo championships. She intends to use it to catch
up with her dad who is always on the move.
It will come in handy i am sure when she marries the
reporter and wants to visit him at his new job in the USA.
bliss
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