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AHEEM HEEM… WHIMPER

from constantine & the demon round robin pages in the back of superboy: the man of tomorrow #4

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Anime in 2018 saw serious money however no surprise hits

What do a 24-year-old kid detective, a gaggle of seriously relaxed  campers and human blood cells have in common? 2018, that’s what.

 “Anime could be a medium, not a genre” could be a common refrain, and in an exceedingly field as numerous as Japan’s animation trade, it are often laborious to nail down trends that apply across the board.

 But here’s one: The trade, as a whole, is creating some serious cash. the parents at the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA), simply free their yearly trade analysis, that showed the whole anime market topping ¥2 trillion for the primary time last year. it's been growing systematically since 2009.

 According to reports from AJA, less of that overall financial gain is from ancient sales channels like home video, whereas additional is from a comparatively new phenomenon: live events. nearly each weekend, concerts, special screenings and stage appearances ar drawing crowds of fans to Akihabara et al.. the foremost unforgettable event I attended this year was dedicated to the boy band-centric series “King of Prism,” and concerned many fans observance a movie they'd apparently already seen dozens of times, screaming lines at the screen and waving glow sticks to the song and dance numbers in unison. Afterward, 3 of the film’s voice actors appeared on stage, speaking in character, because the fans howled in ecstasy. laborious for home video to prime that.

 On the massive screen, 2018 was a reminder that, in an exceedingly traditional year — that's, one with none surprise hits like 2016’s “Your Name.” — established, family-friendly franchises build way more cash than upstart originals. Films within the long-running “Detective Conan,” “Doraemon” and “Pokemon” franchises all did well — in reality, this year’s “Conan” film, the twenty second within the series, became the second-highest-grossing film in Japan. (“Conan” conjointly created headlines this year for agitating the mock ire of U.S. chat show host Conan O’Brien.)

 The only nonfranchise anime film that even created it into the box workplace prime twenty was Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai” — even then, it brought in but half his 2015 hit “The Boy and also the Beast.” in the meantime, 3 films marketed because the next potential “Your Name.” — “Penguin road,” “Maquia: once the secure Flower Blooms” and “I need to Eat Your Pancreas” — did not crack the highest fifty, despite the latter being supported successful book and live-action film. Audiences, it seems, will solely abdomen most duct gland.

 Here’s the obligatory note that box workplace success doesn't essentially equal quality filmmaking (and vice versa). i assumed “Mirai” was a way additional attention-grabbing film than “The Boy and also the Beast,” which “Penguin Highway” and “Maquia” were promising debuts for his or her individual first-time administrators. however their failure to usher in the massive yen could be a reminder that hits are often elusive beasts. Speaking of elusive, “Your Name.” director Makoto Shinkai had been keeping quiet regarding his next project however a surprise announcement Th discovered details of his much-anticipated future feature. “Weathering With You” is about for unharness on July nineteen, 2019.

 Meanwhile, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki assured fans this year that 77-year-old Hayao Miyazaki’s latest is well into production, however most likely won’t be complete for an additional “three or four years.”

 Over on the tiny screen, anime series continuing to be created in record numbers: 186, by my count. If that seems like AN unwieldy quantity for one anime author to do to hide, well, it's (send help!). additional to the purpose, it’s AN unwieldy quantity for the trade itself to produce: As has been the trend in recent years, there weren’t enough animators to travel around, and in 2018 studios round-faced delays, quality problems and outright cancellations. AN animator on much-maligned series “My Sister, My Writer,” in apparent protest against the show’s unreasonable production schedule, listed his or her name within the credits as “in serious hassle.” in an exceedingly separate incident in Nov, director Mitsuo Fukuda took to Twitter to report a production assistant at his studio had worked fifty nine hours in four days, which such effortful hours weren’t notably out of the normal. The anime market could also be transportation in record amounts of cash, however things ar still robust for those on the bottom.

 But 2018 wasn’t all unhealthy news on the TV front. deliciously animated shows like “Violet Evergarden” and “Hanebado!” reaffirmed however nice Japanese animators are often once given adequate time and budget. Tokusatsu superhero-themed “SSSS.Gridman” and sci-fi boxing drama “Megalobox” were charming tributes to beloved shows from the past. “Cells at Work!” delineate cells within the anatomy as, well, humans, operating laborious to deliver gas and rebuff viruses. The show even earned  praise from real-life doctors for its accuracy and academic worth.

 Meanwhile, wish-fulfillment isekai (parallel universe) shows, whose bungler protagonists ar transported into fantasy worlds within which they're enclosed by buxom ladies, cussedly continuing to exist.

 If there’s a through line to be found in 2018’s anime lineup, it'd be, to quote the Talking Heads: “The women need to be with the ladies.” In “Uma Musume Pretty bowler hat,” athletics horse women cheer one another on with no a horse boy visible . In flaky comedy “Asobi Asobase,” 3 middle schoolers avoid male classmates in the least prices. In “Laid-Back Camp,” “Encouragement of Climb” and “A Place additional than the Universe,” teams of young ladies get along and go habitation, rising and travel all the thanks to Antarctica, severally. is that this the anime industry’s defy #MeToo, or a mirrored image of Japan’s semipermanent trend of young men and girls having very little interest in every other? (Or is it potential that with 186 titles, you'll be able to pluck out enough examples to suit any narrative you care to spin?)

 As if there weren’t enough shows on TV, 2018 was the year once Netflix began rolling out its own original material. a number of those series, like Masaaki Yuasa’s “Devilman Crybaby,” garnered some serious crucial praise and over a couple of fans. The firm looks to be pleased with the results therefore far: it's simply proclaimed another block of series, as well as one supported the “Pacific Rim” films — that were part galvanized by anime within the initial place. The streaming large conjointly recently discovered plans for a live-action remake of 1998 sci-fi western anime “Cowboy Bebop,” whereas elsewhere Adult Swim ANd Crunchyroll simply proclaimed an anime series supported “Blade Runner” — with “Bebop” creator Shinichiro Watanabe acting as artistic producer.

 Japanese and Western creators still dip their toes into every other’s properties (this year’s “Batman Ninja” for example), however don’t ignore China, which, says AJA, is answerable for AN ever-increasing quantity of overseas anime consumption. Co-productions ar flowing therein direction, too — contemplate 2018’s art film “Flavors of Youth,” created by CoMix Wave Films, (of “Your Name.” fame) and China’s Haoliners Animation (two of the film’s 3 administrators were from China).

 Apropos of overseas consumption, AJA says sales outside Japan currently account for pretty much 0.5 the whole anime market. There’s very little doubt we’ll still see additional anime created with a non-Japanese audience in mind — although studios ought to most likely detain mind that for several fans, anime’s Japaneseness is that the whole purpose.

[knifeonmars]

Desert Island Comics, Part 2

In packing my things up for my move I made the difficult decision to get rid of most of my monthly issues, about 4 longboxes worth. It wasn't an easy, but I've never considered myself a collector of comic books so much as just a reader. I don't want to fetishize or hoard the physical object, because it's largely beside the point for me. So I combed through my longboxes and filled a single shortbox with the comics I couldn't bear to part with and which I thought would be fun to leaf through at some indeterminate point in the future, thinking less about collectability than my personal attachment to them. So there are some arguably strange choices in here.

Daredevil The Waid/Samnee/Rivera Daredevil was and is a really important comic to me personally. It's actually the book which first got me into a comic book shop back when I was around 16 or 17 years old. I had read comics before, whether online or through my local library, but I was finally at an age where I had money to spend on this ludicrous hobby and I remember seeing the first interviews and previews around the book and being immediately interested, just knowing that this was a book I had to read. The series itself more than bore that out. It was at once awesome throwback superhero action and a deeper and more meaningful exploration of depression and trauma. To this day I look at it as a perfect example of all-caps SUPERHERO COMICS. Midnighter/Midnighter and Apollo Not so much a formative book for me as just a favorite. I loved Midnighter and its sequel because it's a wild action comic with big ideas and a wrecking ball of a protagonist. It also took Midnighter from being a kind of one note character to a personal favorite, and I was overjoyed when the sequel did some of the same for Apollo, who I always thought got kind of short shrift as a result of being the less traditionally masculine partner in the duo. Age of Apocalypse The first of my picks which probably constitutes a weird personal favorite which no one else has ever heard or cared about, Age of Apocalypse was a somewhat shortlived 2011-2012 series spinning out from Rick Remender's lauded X-Force run. The original Age of Apocalypse is mostly remembered as this kind of buckwild glam dystopian romp, but this series was a lot more lowkey and less bombastic. Focusing on the X-Terminated, a group of human rebels made up of alternate reality versions of traditional anti-mutant X-Men foes, the series focused on their desperate and hard fought attempts to secure some kind of future for themselves and their people. It was a fairly dark book but not one without its charms, and I always felt that it managed to strike a good balance between the alternate universe walking tour of "Here's a weird alternate version of this character!" and actually having characters and conflict which are interesting on their own merit. X-Treme X-Men Included primarily for it's ending crossever with Age of Apocalypse, X-Treme X-Men was still a really fun series. Initially focusing on a group of alternate reality X-Men hunting evil versions of Charles Xavier across the multiverse, it was very much an updated take on the now recently revived Exiles formula. Like I said, it's not necessarily an essential book for me, but it is fun and energetic and certainly fun to read. X-Termination I mentioned the crossover between Age of Apocalypse and X-Treme X-Men, also including Amazing X-Men. To be honest, X-Termination, as the name probably implies, isn't a lighthearted read. There's a high bodycount, and specifically coming to it after the hard fought victories of Age of Apocalypse, the ending is very much a gut punch. It's a solid read, but it's not a particularly pleasant one. I couldn't ignore it though, given my affection for Age of Apocalypse. Lobster Johnson In my opinion one of the more accessible Hellboy spinoffs, Lobster Johnson is just pure fun pulp comics which nonetheless manage to make their main character strange and interesting. Recent stories have seen the character dynamics complicated in interesting ways which I look forward to seeing more of. Nighthawk The unfortunately shortlived Walker/Villalobos/Bonvillain series is another favorite of mine. I dunno, Nighthawk hit at a time when I was all too happy to read a comic where a badass superhero beat the shit out of overreaching cops and contend with sinister gentrifiers. It's a cool looking, violent, and downright mean comic which I just love to bits and I consider it a damn shame that Marvel's left the series so unloved. A MAX version or a revival with the upcoming Marvel Knights relaunch would be a hit, at least with me personally. AXIS: Hobgoblin Maybe my strangest pick. Back during the regrettable and forgettable AXIS event, Rick Remender's turn at doing one of Marvel's regularly scheduled and almost inevitably flawed event comics, a bunch of heroes and villains got mind whammied and had their moral alignments inverted; heroes becoming villains and villains becoming heroes. The consequences of this played out not just in the event itself but in a variety of spinoffs and minis, among which was this short three issue mini. I just think it's a fun romp. The art is gorgeous, and Roderick Kingsley is maybe the most interesting he's ever been as a blowhard superhero who's in it for the money and the fame. Another book which I wish could have seen more of, but as it is, a fun artifact from a terrible event comic. Hawkeye Fraction/Aja/Wu/Hollingsworth. A classic which I actually don't feel unambiguously positive about. I remember the many delays and schedule slippage back when it was first coming out put me off somewhat. Still though, I can't deny that it was a good series, especially at the beginning. I didn't love the direction it ultimately took, and I though that the release strategy for the final arcs, alternating issues between Kate and Clint, wasn't a great idea, and the delays exacerbate that, but it was a very good series and I've always kind of planned to revisit now that it's over. Also, it introduced me to The Rockford Files, which holds some sentimental value. Multiversity Grant Morrison's spaghetti thrown at the wall maxiseries, Multiversity is hit and miss, but full of ideas and energy and I couldn't bear to part with it. Something about the single issue format just feels so integral to the strangeness of that series that I wanted to keep hold of it in that original format. Catalyst Comix Here's something about me; I love anthologies. They're always hit or miss, but Ienjoy that quality to them, and Catalyst Comix, while shortlived, was incredibly energetic and interesting. I kept it because I figured that leafing through my shortbox however many years down the line, I'd probably be delighted by the energy and originality that Catalyst Comix had on display. Transformers Vs GI Joe I'm a big Tom Scioli fan, and while I've frankly never cared much about either of the involved properties, I love his unhinged weaving together of them and the sheer go for broke madness of this series. Also, I deeply admire the high concept silliness of them doing a one shot which was a pseudo-adaptation of an imagined film version of the original series. Secret Weapons I've never connected much with the so-called Valiant Universe comics beyond Quantum and Woody, but Secret Weapons was an unexpected delight for me. It's a wonderful ragtag team story which makes the by now somewhat complicated Valiant Universe fairly approachable and unintimidating. The art is absolutely killer too, a refreshing break from what I find to be Valiant's somewhat bland house style. Prophet Here's a series which is harder to talk about now than it was a year ago. The Prophet epic that Brandon Graham helmed with a murderer's row of great artists was a favorite of mine when I was first reading monthly comics, and having revisited it I think it largely holds up, if sagging a bit in the middle portions. I'm particularly partial to the first arc, following the would be Newfather Prophet across a strange and utterly alien far future Earth in a story which evoked sword and sorcery adventure. Man of Steel #22 I'm not much for collecting and preserving comics, but I decided on keeping Man of Steel #22 because I love Steel. To me, Steel is one of the single best superhero comic ideas ever. We're always told that Superman's greatest ability is to inspire people, and Steel is the perfect embodiment of that idea, in the conveniently medium appropriate form of a dude in a supersuit just whaling on bad guys. I love him.

[sekakiramovie]

Rekomendasi Film Anime Romance Terbaik

Menonton anime merupakan kesibukan yang disukai banyak orang. Beragam judul anime berkualitas siap menghibur kamu sesuai bersama dengan suasana hati.

Kalau hati kamu tengah berbunga-bunga sebab kasmaran, atau kamu tengah mencari bahan membuat nangis, maka kamu harus banget nonton genre anime romance.

Seperti namanya, anime romantis bakal menceritakan kisah percintaan yang mampu membuat kamu baper maksimal. Meskipun begitu, nggak semua anime romantis cengeng, kok.

Nah, tersebut ini Jaka bakal mengupas panduan anime romance rating tinggi yang siap menemanimu di waktu senggang. Gak sabar, kan?

Anime Romance Terbaik

Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!

Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! bercerita tentang para karakternya yang pernah dan sedang mengalami chuunibyou alias sindrom kelas dua SMP.

Yuuta Togashi yang juga pernah mengalami ini bertemu dengan Rikka Takanashi yang ternyata memiliki sifat yang sama.

Melihat kesamaan ini, keduanya malah saling tertarik. Di antara obsesinya ini, Yuuta pun mencoba meyakinkan Rikka untuk menyudahi sindrom yang dialaminya guys.

Rekomendasi anime romance comedy terbaik ini dijamin bakal mengocok perut kam berkat alur ceritanya yang benar-benar seru!

Judul     Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!

Jadwal Tayang   4 Oktober 2012 - 20 Desember 2012 (Fall 2012)

Episode                12

Genre   Slice of Life, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School

Studio   Kyoto Animation

Rating   7.88 (MyAnimeList.net)

Ore Monogatari!!

Dalam anime romance comedy yang satu ini, kamu nggak bakal menemukan tokoh utama yang cool atau berwajah rupawan seperti di anime romance terbaik lainnya.

Ore Monogatari!! malah menggambarkan sosok Takeo Gouda, seorang lelaki dengan badan kekar, wajah seram dan menakutkan, namun punya hati yang lemah lembut.

Kisah cinta Takeo bermula saat menyelamatkan Rinko Yamato, yang sayangnya mungkin saja malah tertarik dengan teman baiknya, Makoto Sunakawa yang lebih ganteng. Duh, sedih ya!

Judul     Ore Monogatari

Jadwal Tayang   9 April 2015 - 24 September 2015 (Spring 2015)

Episode                24

Genre   Comedy, Romance, Shoujo

Studio   Madhouse

Rating   8.06 (MyAnimeList.net)

Nisekoi

Kalau kamu sedang mencari anime romantis yang kompleks, Nisekoi jawabannya! Soalnya di anime ini, Raku Ichijo harus memilih di antara empat orang wanita yang berhubungan dekat dengannya.

Anime yang satu ini menceritakan Raku, anak bos Yakuza yang harus berpura-pura pacaran dengan Chitoge Kirisaki demi keamanan bersama.

Sayangnya Raku malah lebih menyukai Kosaki Onodera dan muncul juga Marika Tachibana serta Seishirou Tsugumi yang juga menyukai Raku.

Judul     Nisekoi

Jadwal Tayang   11 Januari 2014 - 24 Mei 2014 (Winter 2014)

Episode                20

Genre   Harem, Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen

Studio   Shaft

Rating   7.79 (MyAnimeList.net)

Clannad: After Story

Clannad: After Story merupakan kelanjutan dari serial anime Clannad. Anime romance sedih yang banjir air mata ini bahkan dianggap sebagai salah satu anime tersedih sepanjang masa.

Berkisah tentang Tomoya Okazaki seorang lelaki bandel dan Nagisa Furukawa yang ditemuinya. Dalam sekuel ini, mereka mulai mengalami gejolak kehidupan orang dewasa.

Perjalanan mengubah sifat Tomoya menjadi lebih baik, tentu dipenuhi dengan drama di tiap episodenya. Jadi, jangan lupa siap-siap tisu yah, geng!

Judul     Clannad: After Story

Jadwal Tayang   3 Oktober 2008 - 27 Maret 2009 (Fall 2008)

Episode                24

Genre   Slice of Life, Comedy, Supernatural, Drama, Romance

Studio   Kyoto Animation

Rating   9.00 (MyAnimeList.net)

Centimeters per Second

Sebelum kepopuleran Kimi no Na wa, ada lagi anime romantis terbaik besutan studio CoMix Wave Films, yakni 5 Centimeters per Second yang dijamin mampu mengaduk-aduk perasaan.

Rekomendasi anime romance movie yang tayang di layar lebar ini berkisah tentang Takaki Toono dan Akari Shinohara yang sudah sangat dekat dan saling mencinta sejak kecil.

 Namun keluarga Akari yang pindah karena urusan pekerjaan. Keduanya pun hanya bisa saling berkomunikasi lewat pesan hingga mereka bertemu kembali.

Judul     5 Centimeters per Second

Jadwal Tayang   3 Maret 2007

Episode                1

Genre   Drama, Romance, Slice of Life

Studio   CoMix Wave Films

Rating   7.93 (MyAnimeList.net)

Anime Romance Terbaik Sepanjang Masa

Sukitte Ii na yo

Sukitte Ii na yo atau dalam bhs Inggris-nya Say "I Love You" adalah anime romantis school yang bercerita tentang seorang cewek yang nggak rela bergaul.

Mei Tachibana adalah seorang gadis yang tertutup, lebih-lebih tidak punyai pacar dan rekan selama 16 tahun. Introvert banget, deh!

Suatu ketika, Mei melukai Yamato Kurosawa, anak cowok paling populer di sekolahnya. Pertemuan pertama yang nggak disengaja ini sebabkan mereka saling mencintai, lebih-lebih Yamato mengupayakan selalu menjaga Mei.

Judul     Sukitte Ii na yo

Jadwal Tayang   7 Oktober 2012 - 30 Desember 2012 (Fall 2012)

Episode                13

Genre   Drama, Romance, School, Shoujo

Studio   Zexcs

Rating   7.66 (MyAnimeList.net)

Shigatsu wa Kimi nomor Uso

Shigatsu wa Kimi nomor Uso menceritakan kehidupan pianis cilik punya bakat bernama Kousei Arima yang saat itu juga berubah dikala ibunya meninggal dunia.

Kosei mengalami depresi sampai-sampai ia nggak sanggup lagi mendengar musik. Dia termasuk menghindari segala hal berkenaan bersama dengan musik lebih-lebih untuk memainkan pianonya sendiri.

Namun seutuhnya berubah semenjak Kaori Miyazono, seorang pemain biola cantik yang mengubah hidupnya untuk bermain musik lagi mendapat dukungan bersama dengan teman-temannya, yaitu Tsubaki Sawabe dan Ryouta Watari.

Selain jadi anime romance movie yang sedih sebab menceritakan kisah yang berujung pilu, Shigatsu wa Kimi nomor Uso termasuk jadi anime yang menceritakan cinta bertepuk sebelah tangan. Sakit!

 Judul     Shigatsu wa Kimi nomor Uso

Jadwal Tayang   10 Oktober 2014 - 20 Maret 2015 (Fall 2014)

Episode                22

Genre   Drama, Music, Romance, School, Shounen

Studio   A-1 Pictures

Rating   8.87 (MyAnimeList.net)

Toradora!

Siapa sangka dua khusus yang punyai sikap keras sanggup saling mencintai?

Toradora! mengisahkan Takasu Ryuji yang punyai wajah menyeramkan dan aneh yang bersua bersama dengan Aisaka Taiga wanita berbadan kecil tetapi punyai pembawaan pemarah.

Awalnya mereka kerap berkelahi. Namun, lama kelamaan mereka saling menolong untuk memperoleh hati kawan dekat dari musuh mereka tersebut.

Nggak tahunya, mereka berdua jadi jadi saling tertarik. Wah, bagaimanakah kisah sesudah itu dari judul anime romantis paling baik ini? Mending buruan nonton aja, geng!

Judul     Toradora!

Jadwal Tayang   2 Oktober 2008 - 26 Maret 2009 (Fall 2008)

Episode                25

Genre   Slice of Life, Comedy, Romance, School

Studio   J.C.Staff

Rating   8.39 (MyAnimeList.net)

Tsuki ga Kirei

Singkat cerita, Tsuki ga Kirei menceritakan kisah dua orang siswa SMP yang saling mencintai dan punyai idaman untuk menikah bersama.

Anime romance school ini berkisah tentang Mizuno dan Azumi yang berada di kelas yang sama dan saling mengenal satu sama lainnya.

Memulai hubungan dari sekadar rekan sampai saling menyukai, hubungan keduanya pun tidak selalu berlangsung mulus. Ada banyak kendala yang kudu mereka hadapi di tengah hubungan mereka.

Judul     Tsuki ga Kirei

Jadwal Tayang   7 April 2017 - 30 Juni 2017 (Spring 2017)

Episode                12

Genre   Romance, School

Studio   feel.

Rating   8.31 (MyAnimeList.net)

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Persiapkan Pulang Kampungmu!

"Balik kampung halaman serasa mimpi buruk? Bikin resah dan bingung? Khawatir dan takut terbawa arus utama yang mengerikan? Di comix aja guys hehe"

Kutipan diatas hanyalah sepenggal "mukadimah" dari sesi motivasi untuk stay calm and cool ketika akhirnya hidupmu mesti kembali bertemu dengan kampung halaman tercinta (?) Maksud saya setelah sekian lama bahagia menikmati hidup yang nyaman di kota yang punya atmosfer untuk berkembang lebih baik hehe..

Namun, perhatikan baik-baik wahai netijen baik. Bukan berarti balik ke kampung halaman adalah hal yang berkonotasi negatif. Banyak tentunya dari kita yang menginginkan untuk pulang kampung, namun banyak pula yang ketar ketir ketika diberi pilihan untuk pulang ke kampung halaman dengan berbagai macam alasannya.

Pertanyaannya, apakah kesempatan untuk berkembang di kampung halaman tidak sebaik hidup diluar kota? Relatif sih ini. Tergantung dari cara kita menyikapi saja. Di kota besar pengetahuan kita bisa berkembang pesat karena iklim keilmuan dan berbagai fasilitas yang tersedia menawarkan itu semua. Sementara, dikampung halaman, kita tentu memiliki banyak sekali masalah dan hambatan, khususnya kita yang kotanya belum cukup maju disegala bidang. Dan, ini bisa jadi peluang untuk melesat loh. Berat? Ya, karena proses berkembangnya kita tak seindah di kota-kota maju dengan segala kemegahannya.

Ada dua sisi yang akan kita temui dan harus siap untuk kita hadapi, wabil khusus bagi para perantau yang hendak pulang ke kampung halaman. Sisi yang pertama adalah tentang karakter dan budaya. Karakter dan budaya adalah unit dari sebuah peradaban. Sebuah peradaban yang maju ditentukan oleh karakter dan budaya manusianya. Dengan demikian, karakter dan budaya juga merupakan ciri dari sebuah peradaban.

Tak jarang, karakter dan budaya ini memiliki perbedaan satu sama lain. Tak perlu kita membandingkan satu provinsi dengan provinsi yang lain atau satu kota dengan kota yang lain. Dalam lingkup sederhana saja, kita akan temukan bahwa karakter dan budaya pedesaan akan berbeda dengan perkotaan, iya kan? Coba tengok, ini adalah hal yang nyata.

Apa yang membedakan?

Para ahli merangkum ini semua dan menyimpulkan bahwa ini adalah tentang pendidikan. Tapi, jangan terlalu cepat menyimpulkan bahwa pendidikan hanya tentang sebuah ruang kelas atau sebuah universitas atau sebuah institut. No! Sebuah forum, apapun bentuknya, selama diisi dengan tesis-tesis keilmuan, meramu dan meracik pemikiran, ide dan gagasan maka disitulah karakter dan budaya itu dibentuk.

Ini artinya, karakter dan budaya itu diciptakan oleh apa yang ada didalam kepala. Dan, saat ini saya menyaksikan sendiri bahwa banyak sekali sesuatu yang tidak pada tempatnya mengendap didalam kepala kita. Parahnya lagi ini adalah karakter yang sudah dan akan terus membudaya dan diwariskan bila tak ada pembaharuan pemikiran atau intelektualitas dikalangan masyarakat.

Maka, bagi para perantau persiapkanlah dirimu untuk bertahan sekuat tenaga dari gempuran karakter dan budaya ini. Namun, ingat, yang dimaksud dalam pembahasan ini tentu saja tentang karakter dan budaya buruk yang selama ini dilakukan oleh orang-orang sekeliling kita. Dan ini menyangkut obrolan tentang uang, politik, agama, sosial ekonomi, lingkungan dan lainnya. Jikalau nanti dikau capek-capek belajar dan beradaptasi dengan lingkungan yang baik dikota tapi pada akhirnya setelah pulang kampung dikau terlihat sama saja maka sia-sialah sudah! Mari mewarnai dengan hal positif, itu yang diharapkan!

Sisi yang kedua adalah tentang peluang. Bersiaplah dengan peluang yang terbuka lebar ketika dikau pulang kampung. Jikalau tadi sebelumnya kita berbicara tentang karakter dan budaya yang masih menjadi masalah kita bersama. Maka, coba yakinlah bahwa setiap masalah yang ada adalah peluang. Simplenya gini, di kota tentu kita bisa melihat apapun yang mungkin tidak atau belum dimiliki oleh kampung kelahiran kita. Itu artinya, ini adalah peluang bagi kita. Peluang kebaikan, usaha, dan sebagainya. Dengan demikian, mestinya daya kritis, kreativitas serta kolaborasi dibawa serta ketika kita nantinya pulang kampung. Inilah bekal yang perlu kita pahami berdasarkan pengalaman penulis, ditunggu sharing-sharing selanjutnya :)

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David Aja’s Immortal Iron Fist

“... My point is, my wee brain would really have benefited from Aja showing me the beginning of that back flip in panel 2 and that twisting motion at the top of the bar in panel 6 so I wouldn't have to have spent hours trying to decipher what my problem was with the visual logic flow on this page.”

more here

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Anime in 2018 saw serious money however no surprise hits

What do a 24-year-old kid detective, a bunch of seriously at ease campers and anthropomorphous blood cells have in common? 2018, that’s what.

 “Anime could be a medium, not a genre” could be a common refrain, and during a field as numerous as Japan’s animation business, it are often laborious to nail down trends that apply across the board.

 But here’s one: The business, as a whole, is creating some serious cash. the oldsters at the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA), simply discharged their yearly business analysis, that showed the full anime market topping ¥2 trillion for the primary time last year. it's been growing systematically since 2009.

 According to reports from AJA, less of that overall financial gain is from ancient sales channels like home video, whereas additional is from a comparatively new phenomenon: live events. just about each weekend, concerts, special screenings and stage appearances square measure drawing crowds of fans to Akihabara et al.. the foremost unforgettable event I attended this year was dedicated to the boy band-centric series “King of Prism,” and concerned many fans observance a movie that they had apparently already seen dozens of times, screaming lines at the screen and waving glow sticks to the song and dance numbers in unison. Afterward, 3 of the film’s voice actors appeared on stage, speaking in character, because the fans howled in ecstasy. laborious for home video to high that.

 On the large screen, 2018 was a reminder that, during a traditional year — that's, one with none surprise hits like 2016’s “Your Name.” — established, family-friendly franchises build way more cash than upstart originals. Films within the long-running “Detective Conan,” “Doraemon” and “Pokemon” franchises all did well — actually, this year’s “Conan” film, the twenty second within the series, became the second-highest-grossing film in Japan. (“Conan” conjointly created headlines this year for agitative the mock ire of U.S. broadcast host Conan O’Brien.)

 The only nonfranchise anime film that even created it into the box workplace high twenty was Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai” — even then, it brought in but half his 2015 hit “The Boy and also the Beast.” meantime, 3 films marketed because the next potential “Your Name.” — “Penguin road,” “Maquia: once the secure Flower Blooms” and “I wish to Eat Your Pancreas” — didn't crack the highest fifty, despite the latter being supported successful book and live-action film. Audiences, it seems, will solely abdomen such a lot exocrine gland.

 Here’s the obligatory note that box workplace success doesn't essentially equal quality filmmaking (and vice versa). i assumed “Mirai” was a far additional fascinating film than “The Boy and also the Beast,” which “Penguin Highway” and “Maquia” were promising debuts for his or her individual first-time administrators. however their failure to usher in the large yen could be a reminder that hits are often elusive beasts. Speaking of elusive, “Your Name.” director Makoto Shinkai had been keeping quiet regarding his next project however a surprise announcement weekday unconcealed details of his much-anticipated approaching feature. “Weathering With You” is about for unharness on July nineteen, 2019.

 Meanwhile, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki assured fans this year that 77-year-old Hayao Miyazaki’s latest is well into production, however most likely won’t be complete for an additional “three or four years.”

 Over on the little screen, anime series continued  to be made in record numbers: 186, by my count. If that seems like AN unwieldy quantity for one anime author to do to hide, well, it's (send help!). additional to the purpose, it’s AN unwieldy quantity for the business itself to produce: As has been the trend in recent years, there weren’t enough animators to travel around, and in 2018 studios featured delays, quality problems and outright cancellations. AN animator on much-maligned series “My Sister, My Writer,” in apparent protest against the show’s unreasonable production schedule, listed his or her name within the credits as “in serious hassle.” during a separate incident in Nov, director Mitsuo Fukuda took to Twitter to report a production assistant at his studio had worked fifty nine hours in four days, which such effortful hours weren’t significantly out of the standard. The anime market could also be transportation in record amounts of cash, however things square measure still robust for those on the bottom.

 But 2018 wasn’t all dangerous news on the TV front. deliciously animated shows like “Violet Evergarden” and “Hanebado!” reaffirmed however nice Japanese animators are often once given adequate time and budget. Tokusatsu superhero-themed “SSSS.Gridman” and sci-fi boxing drama “Megalobox” were charming tributes to beloved shows from the past. “Cells at Work!” delineated  cells within the flesh as, well, humans, operating laborious to deliver chemical element and fight viruses. The show even earned  praise from real-life doctors for its accuracy and academic worth.

 Meanwhile, wish-fulfillment isekai (parallel universe) shows, whose incompetent person protagonists square measure transported into fantasy worlds during which they're encircled by buxom ladies, pig-headedly continued  to exist.

 If there’s a through line to be found in 2018’s anime lineup, it'd be, to quote the Talking Heads: “The ladies wish to be with the women.” In “Uma Musume Pretty hat,” sport horse ladies cheer one another on with no a horse boy seeable. In unconventional comedy “Asobi Asobase,” 3 middle schoolers avoid male classmates the least bit prices. In “Laid-Back Camp,” “Encouragement of Climb” and “A Place additional than the Universe,” teams of young ladies get along and go tenting, climb and travel all the thanks to Antarctic continent, severally. is that this the anime industry’s combat #MeToo, or a mirrored image of Japan’s long-run trend of young men and ladies having very little interest in every other? (Or is it potential that with 186 titles, you'll be able to pluck out enough examples to suit any narrative you care to spin?)

 As if there weren’t enough shows on TV, 2018 was the year once Netflix began rolling out its own original material. a number of those series, like Masaaki Yuasa’s “Devilman Crybaby,” garnered some serious essential praise and quite a number of fans. The firm looks to be pleased with the results thus far: it's simply declared another block of series, as well as one supported the “Pacific Rim” films — that were part galvanized by anime within the 1st place. The streaming large conjointly recently unconcealed plans for a live-action remake of 1998 sci-fi western anime “Cowboy Bebop,” whereas elsewhere Adult Swim ANd Crunchyroll simply declared an anime series supported “Blade Runner” — with “Bebop” creator Shinichiro Watanabe acting as inventive producer.

 Japanese and Western creators still dip their toes into every other’s properties (this year’s “Batman Ninja” for example), however don’t ditch China, which, says AJA, is liable for AN ever-increasing quantity of overseas anime consumption. Co-productions square measure flowing therein direction, too — take into account 2018’s art film “Flavors of Youth,” created by CoMix Wave Films, (of “Your Name.” fame) and China’s Haoliners Animation (two of the film’s 3 administrators were from China).

 Apropos of overseas consumption, AJA says sales outside Japan currently account for nearly 0.5 the full anime market. There’s very little doubt we’ll still see additional anime made with a non-Japanese audience in mind — tho' studios ought to most likely detain mind that for several fans, anime’s Japaneseness is that the whole purpose.

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COMICS

This week I attended a lecture by Dr Simon Grennan – a comic maker, scholar of comics, and artist. This talk was quite different from the previous ones because instead of talking about his own professional practice Dr Grennan discussed the topic of what we think about when we think about comics.

As Dr Grennan pointed out, comic studies are a relatively new subject. And it does not sit anywhere academically – comics are nor Literature, nor Fine Art. I personally never knew that one could be a scholar of comics, despite having an interest in them. I simply thought that comics could be a branch of Illustration. However, Dr Grennan proved me wrong with what turned out to be quite a complicated lecture.

Something I had never considered before is that comics have languages: French, English, or Japanese. These languages do not necessarily indicate that a comic is written in one of them. It rather speaks to the type of comic. If the language is French, the comic would be a bande dessinée (a drawn strip). English comics can be comic books, comix (underground comics from the 1960s), or graphic novels. And the Japanese comics would obviously be manga. But comics can also be differentiated between by many other aspects: ways of reading, frequency, drawing, genres and sub-genres, etc. All of this just proves how comics are a vast and diverse story telling medium.

However, comics are still frowned upon by many. Some people claim that they are childish, others consider them ‘shallow’. But in Lithuania comics are not even popular amongst children. This saddens me, as somebody who is interested in comics and wishes to exhibit my work in my home country. I attended a few discussions, where Lithuanian artists discussed the future of comics in Lithuania. Some artists have resigned to produce English content for the international masses simply because there is not a big enough audience to support Lithuanian comics. Others choose to approach comics in a patriotic manner – publishing historical graphic novels or zines about Lithuanian cities. Hopefully, in the years to come, comics can infiltrate Lithuanian culture and become as valuable as other types of art and literature.

Comics are an interesting and colourful subject and I am very grateful to Dr Simon Grennan for opening my eyes up to the academic side of it. I hope this lecture helps me understand comics better and possibly appeal to the masses of Lithuania, if I ever decide to publish Lithuanian comics.

Images above are: “Dispossession. A novel of few words” by Simon Grennan “Boundless” by Jillian Tamaki, one of my favourite graphic novels “10 litų“ by Miglė Anušauskaitė and Gerda Jord, a Lithuanian historical graphic novel A panel from Matt Fraction and David Aja’s “Hawkeye”, my favourite Marvel comic series

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Joškice/ Siski | Aja Sredanović, Neža Grum | 2012

Siski (Titties) is a small comix illustrated by Aja Sredanović with the storyline by Neža Grum. It is about a girl whose red jumper gets ruined by her cat and finds herself roaming naked around the city. 

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found my holiest of holy grails today and the comico special a couple of weeks ago

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I WAS GOING CRAZY IN HERE

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jared on the floor compilation

from tbof #3-6 and 8

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omg brother power the geek’s sweater that’s my friend :)

from peacemaker tries hard #2

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i’m back from the convention here’s what i got signed. exciting things happening

i keep laughing because david lloyd’s signature is illegible compared to the others. love it though of course

babysitting cinder and ashe and the alan sketch for my wonderful girlfriend btw until i can mail them to her. his bright and sparkly eyes captivate me

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some recent acquisitions. in this house we love mister e

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found these (SIGNED) today in some random vendor mall :) yippee