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Naoki Saito (さいとうなおき, Saitō Naoki, born November 13, 1982) is a Japanese illustrator, manga artist, and YouTuber.He is a regular contributing artist for the Duel Masters Trading Card Game, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, and Hatsune Miku merchandise.
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.
The contrast between his cutesy drawing style, the consistency of the illustrations and such themes is considered a point of interest. [13] Illustrations on other themes ( refugee crises , fake news , conspiracies ) and current events ( 3D-printed firearms , same-sex marriage , virtual reality , fidget spinners ) have been added from time to time.
MikuMikuDance (commonly abbreviated to MMD) is a freeware animation program that lets users animate and create computer-animated films, originally produced for the Japanese Vocaloid voice synthesizer software voicebank Hatsune Miku, the first member of the Character Vocal series created by Crypton Future Media.
Figures based on anime, manga and bishōjo game characters are often sold as dolls in Japan. Collecting them is a popular hobby amongst Otakus . The term moe is otaku slang for the love of characters in video games, anime, or manga, whereas zoku is a post-World War II term for tribe, clan or family.
[2] [6] She made a guest appearance at the 2007 Animazement anime convention in Durham, North Carolina for an autograph and Q&A session. [7] When asked her age, she often responds that she is only 17, which has become a running gag at events as well as anime shows. [1] [5] At an Otakon 2009 panel, she explained that the number 17 was an ...
Clamp (stylized in all caps) is an all-female Japanese manga artist group, consisting of leader and writer Nanase Ohkawa (born in Osaka), and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi (all born in Kyoto).
An anime film titled Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 1st and adapted from the anime television series was released in Japan on January 23, 2010. [23] Aniplex displayed a trailer of the film as well as character-design sketches and original drawings at its booth at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2009. [ 24 ]