The Insider's Guide To Anime

Manga – Where It All Began Your parents probably think that comic books started back in the 1930s and 1940s with Superman and Batman. They’re wrong. While true comic books have been around for less than one hundred years, Japanese artists have been producing illustrated books for centuries. Today, Japanese comic books and graphic novels are referred to as “manga.” The famous Japanese artist Hokusai (he lived from 1760 until 1849) coined the term manga in 1815 when he referred to some of his comic sketches as “man” (which means whimsical or careless) “ga” (which means drawings). He was just sketching – and “manga” was born.

In the United States, a lot of people – mostly adults – think comic books, graphic novels, and animation are only for kids. That’s not true in Japan – comics and animation are as popular and widely accepted as books or movies. (That’s also why some Japanese comics are as violent and sexually-oriented as they are. Some series are written and illustrated specifically for adults, not for kids or teenagers.) Also unlike in the U.S., Japanese comics and animation often tell stories about “real” or “normal” people, not just about super heroes or super villains.

Some manga produced in Japan is published weekly as part of huge 300-page anthologies of comic stories. Just like many people read newspapers on trains on the way to work, Japanese commuters read these anthologies. They’re considered to be cheap entertainment, so they’re read and thrown away. While American comic books (like the Action Comics issue I mentioned earlier) are saved and stored away by people hoping they’ll be worth a lot more someday, there’s no “collector” interest in manga in Japan. Saving one of the 300 page anthologies would be like saving yesterday’s newspaper – no one does it.

The anthologies are incredibly popular, and manga artists have crazy schedules, many having to pump out sixteen or twenty pages per week to keep up. Being an average manga artist is probably really fun, but it’s also very demanding.

If you’ve ever picked up a manga graphic novel, you’ve noticed something else: the book seems backwards. Why? Most Asian books are read from left to right. Our last page is their first page. (The cover seems like it’s on backwards, too.) Reading a real Japanese graphic novel, even if it’s been translated, can seem a little weird at first, since every time you turn the page it feels like you’re going backwards.

Many U.S. writers and illustrators now produce manga. A lot of people call their work “American manga” or “Western manga,” since it’s not produced in Japan by Japanese writers and artists. (Purists generally do not call non-Japanese comics “manga,” even if they’re drawn in an appropriate style.)

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The episode has been titled ‘Explosion! Sage Mode’. If you are a diehard fan of Naruto episodes, this one is really for you. Here, is a brief synopsis of the episode.

Naruto is in Mount Myoboko when he senses danger and rushes back to the Leaf Village with Fukasaku. But, when they reach there, they find that their village has been destroyed beyond recognition.

He comes to know that Pain had attacked his village. Naruto who has returned along with sages is pretty calm initially. But later, anger overcomes all other feelings, as something so precious to him has been taken away.

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Full of anger, Naruto asks the village people to stay where they are and prepares to fight with all the six paths of Pain, in one go. The way Naruto manages everything is quite amazing.

In this episode of Naruto Shippuden, we find that Naruto’s character has come a long way and grown tremendously. However, he has retained his immense strength which he possesses since childhood. He is depicted as manly, cool and strong in this episode. He is not at all the earlier screwball character, who keeps on bouncing and getting annoyed at everything. He seems to be in charge of things.

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With the village houses completely destroyed, you must be wondering how many people had survived the attack. Well, there is good news for you. Most of the villagers survived the attack, but there was considerable structural damage.

Naruto has exceeded the expectations of his fans and displayed his true fighting talent. All the details, from Naruto’s return to his portrayal of anger, have been depicted very beautifully in the episode.

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Here is a short synopsis of the episode, to tempt you further. Naruto is called back to the village, as Tsunade issues orders for the same. But, the elders do not trust this judgment .

Kakashi is among one of the finest ninjas who has only one eye. He had learnt more than a thousand ninja techniques or jutsu by using just his left eye. His left eye displays Sharingan, which is a wheel like structure made from three coma-like marks. The Sharingan is mostly possessed by the members of Uchiha clan…

Consequently, Tsunade tries to convince and simultaneously gets ready for the battle. To reckon his abilities, Kakashi in the meantime, fights with Pain.

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If you really want to understand anime, first you need to
know about manga. Why?

In the U.S., animation for TV or for movies is very
different from comic book art. Animation by companies
like Disney or DreamWorks focuses on movement – lots
of movement. Characters move, scenery moves, the
background moves… most people think the more
movement there is the “better” the animation is. (That’s
why a lot of people were surprised when South Park
became popular – the characters hardly move at all,
much less the scenery.)

Since Western animation normally requires a lot of
movement to be considered “good,” if a comic book is
adapted to become an animated cartoon or movie, most
of the time the characters are simplified so they can be
drawn more easily when they have to move. (The
more detail a character’s clothing has, for instance, the
more an artist has to re-draw when the character
moves. If a sleeve doesn’t have any stripes, there are
no stripes to re-draw as the arm moves.) That’s why,
for instance, Batman’s costume looks pretty simple in
a cartoon, instead of having all the detail, shading,
highlights, etc, that it has in the comic book. The
creators of the cartoon don’t want to spend too much
money on re-drawing his costume every time Batman
moves.

If you’ve ever picked up a manga graphic novel, you’ve
noticed something else: the book seems backwards.
Why? Most Asian books are read from left to right. Our
last page is their first page. (The cover seems like it’s on
backwards, too.) Reading a real Japanese graphic novel,
even if it’s been translated, can seem a little weird at first,
since every time you turn the page it feels like you’re
going backwards.

Many U.S. writers and illustrators now produce manga.
A lot of people call their work “American manga” or
“Western manga,” since it’s not produced in Japan by
Japanese writers and artists. (Purists generally do not call
non-Japanese comics “manga,” even if they’re drawn in
an appropriate style.)