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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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