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The cyclically renewing Asian metropolis and its depiction in Japanese Manga comics comes under the spotlight.(METABOLIC MANGA)(Movie review)

Publication: The Architectural Review
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Although in the west 'Manga; has come to mean a particular style of Japanese Sci-fi comic, in Japanese the word just means 'comic', and it can equally apply to Mickey Mouse or Rupert Bear picture stories. To describe cartoon films, homemade or international, the. Japanese have taken the word...

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...English 'animation' and shortened it to 'Anime' Mangas and Anime are the east's answer to Warhol and Pop Art, a mega pulp and video industry with profits in billions. Its star artist is Takashi Murakami, born in 1962, who, in his 2000 'Superflat' manifesto, described Manga's defining principles of flatness and superficiality. Though they embody the essence of today's comic culture, they also have a long tradition in Japanese art history.

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Mangas and Anime create Utopian worlds with futuristic architecture and their characters, all slim, sporty and usually young, enact life and death dramas shaped, in part, by the architectures in which their...

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