Village Manga – Salon du livre et de la presse de Genève
Du 22 au 26 avril 2009, le Salon du livre et de la presse de Genève accueille pour la première fois un Village Manga, organisé par les associations Yume et Omusubi. Il y avait certes eu le Japan Manga Festival, en 2007, mais celui-ci avait été organisé en annexe de l’événement principal et il fallait … Read more
The "mie" pose in Animes
Danjuro Ichikawa II, in a mie pose in Shibaraku. Woodblock print by Torii Kiyomasu. Wikipedia English Recently, I went to an amazing Surimono exhibit, at the Museum Rietberg, in Zürich. One of them represented the famous Kabuki actor Ishikawa Danjuro in a “mie” pose. Our guide, Mrs. Helen Loveday, an expert in the field of … Read more
Rozen Aso Prime Minister
As I reported last year, the actions of a number of companies involved in the manga/anime industry briefly shot up when Mr. Taro Aso, an afficionado of Japanese popular culture and former Foreign Minister, was approached to run for the Prime Minister position, then held by resigning Mr. Shinzo Abe. However, the race was won … Read more
Did you say "Krazy"?
And one more! Yes, one more book on animation and comics, including animes and mangas to add to your piling up reading list. These last two or three years, we have witnessed a flurry of works from a variety of disciplines on visual popular culture, especially on mangas and animes. This was somewhat long overdue … Read more
Japanese soft-power embodied in Doraemon?
In the recent years, the role of Japanese entertainment industry in shaping perception of Japan around the world has been the focus of many inquiries, either by journalists – remember Douglas McGray’s famous Japan’s Gross National Cool – or by scholars, like the Manga Study Network. The issue of whether “mangas” (Japanese comics) and “animés” … Read more
