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Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.
Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子, Takahashi Rumiko, born October 10, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist.With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists.
A sample model sheet from the DVD tutorial 'Chaos&Evolutions' In visual arts, a model sheet, also known as a character board, character sheet, character study or simply a study, is a document used to help standardize the appearance, poses, and gestures of a character in arts such as animation, comics, and video games.
How to Draw Manga (Japanese: マンガの描き方) is a series of instructional books on drawing manga published by Graphic-sha, by a variety of authors. Originally in Japanese for the Japanese market, many volumes have been translated into English and published in the United States.
Bishōjo characters appear ubiquitously in media including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the bishojo game genre), and also appear in advertising and as mascots, such as for maid cafés. An attraction towards bishōjo characters is a key concept in otaku (manga and anime fan) subculture.
By July 2021, the manga had over 800,000 copies in circulation by July of the same year. [28] By March 2022, it had 1 million copies in circulation. [29] By November 2023, it had over 1.65 million copies in circulation. [30] In August 2020, the series ranked second out of the 50 nominees on the sixth Next Manga Award, with 19,902 votes.
Lum the Invader Girl [1] [2] (/ l ʌ m /), known in Japan simply as Lum (Japanese: ラム, Hepburn: Ramu), [3] is a fictional character and the female protagonist of Rumiko Takahashi's manga series Urusei Yatsura. [4] [5] [6] She is often believed to be the main protagonist of the series due to her iconic status.
Wikipe-tan, a combination of the Japanese word for Wikipedia and the friendly suffix for children, -tan, [1] is a moe anthropomorph of Wikipedia. Moe anthropomorphism (Japanese: 萌え擬人化, Hepburn: moe gijinka) is a form of anthropomorphism in anime, manga, and games where moe qualities are given to non-human beings (such as animals, plants, supernatural entities and fantastical ...