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Like the many festivals and celebrations that the Japanese are known for, a shinnenkai is their way of getting together to celebrate a new year and to make promises to each other to do their best for this year while wishing each other good luck and fortune. A shinnenkai is similar to a bōnenkai in several ways with just a few exceptions. Both ...
Madame Xanadu debuted in Doorway to Nightmare #1 (February 1978). [1] The character was designed by cover artist Michael William Kaluta at the request of editor Joe Orlando, based on Kaluta's unnamed host character (later known as Charity in the pages of Starman) from the DC Comics mystery title Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion (seen only on that title's indicia page) and the person of Cathy ...
The Japanese eat a selection of dishes during the New Year celebration called osechi-ryōri, typically shortened to osechi. Many of these dishes are sweet, sour, or dried, so they can be kept without refrigeration: the culinary traditions date to a time before households had refrigerators and when most stores closed for the holidays.
A series dedicated to “Madame Xanadu,” the DC Comics title about an immortal sorceress who dates back to the time of King Arthur, is in development for HBO Max with Bad Robot and Warner Bros ...
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A bōnenkai (忘年会, literally "forget the year gathering") is a Japanese drinking party that takes place at the end of the year and is generally held among groups of co-workers or friends. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The purpose of the party, as its name implies, is to forget the woes and troubles of the past year, and hopefully look to the new year ...
Upon achieving victory, a new tradition was born. As for the date on which Kagami biraki is held, one theory is that it was held every year on January 20 during the Muromachi period (1336-1573) and later changed to January 11 in many parts of Japan after the third Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu , died on January 20 during the Edo period ...
Amy Reeder was first discovered through the fourth of Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga competitions [2] and later wrote and illustrated the OEL manga Fool's Gold. [3]Reeder became the lead artist on the Madame Xanadu series from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, with writer Matt Wagner. [4]