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Neo (magazine)
''NEO'' was a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Uncooked Media. The magazine focused on various aspects of East Asian entertainment, such as Japanese anime and manga, East Asian cinema, cosplay, music, and more. History ''NEO'' was founded by editor Stu Taylor and designer Claire Trent, and originally had the working title of ''Sushi-Ya''. ''NEO'' was influenced by magazines such as ''Newtype'' and ''Pulp'', the latter of which featured editorials on film, books, music, and columns on Japanese culture as well as serialised comics. The first issue of ''NEO'' went on sale on 25 November 2004. The current logo was adopted on the magazine's 9th issue, which was designed by Terratag. In August 2016, for the magazines 153rd issue, the layout was changed to a larger A4 size. The new staple bound larger format allows posters to be placed in the magazine. In March 2020, the magazine went on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It resumed publication in Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Demon Girl Next Door
is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Izumo Itō, serialized in Houbunsha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Manga Time Kirara Carat'' since 2014. It has been collected in six ''tankōbon'' volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired between July and September 2019. A second season aired between April and July 2022. Plot One day, Yuko Yoshida wakes up with horns and a tail and learns that she is the descendant of the Dark Clan that was cursed into poverty by the opposing Light Clan. In order to restore her clan's honor, she is tasked with defeating the town's local magical girl, Momo Chiyoda. Characters ; : :A high school girl who one day awakens as a demon girl, tasked with defeating a magical girl. Her full demon girl title is "Shadow Mistress Yuko", often shortened into "Shamiko". Despite her ancestry, she is physically weak. In times of danger, she can transform into a Crisis Management form which slightly improves her abilities. As a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s in music, 1960s pop music, pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly Magazines Published In The United Kingdom , sometimes known as "monthly"
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Monthly usually refers to the scheduling of something every month. It may also refer to: * ''The Monthly'' * ''Monthly Magazine'' * ''Monthly Review'' * ''PQ Monthly'' * ''Home Monthly'' * ''Trader Monthly'' * ''Overland Monthly'' * Menstruation Menstruation (also known as a period, among other colloquial terms) is the regular discharge of blood and Mucous membrane, mucosal tissue from the endometrium, inner lining of the uterus through the vagina. The menstrual cycle is characterized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Cultural Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
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Defunct may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state. When used in a biological sense, it means imperfect or rudimentary when comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime And Manga Magazines
is a hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otaku USA
''Otaku USA'' is a bimonthly magazine published by Sovereign Media, which covers various elements of the "otaku" lifestyle (such as anime, manga, video games, cosplay and Japanese popular music) from an American perspective. The issues were accompanied by a DVD featuring three anime episodes but as of 2009 the DVD feature was dropped and the double sided poster feature of the Magazine was also dropped starting with the February 2010 issue. ''Otaku USA'' began publication in August 2007. The editor-in-chief of the magazine is Patrick Macias. After the shutdown of ''Newtype USA'' in February 2008, '' Anime Insider'' in March 2009, '' Shonen Jump'' in April 2012, and the discontinuation of ''Protoculture Addicts'' since August 2008, ''Otaku USA'' is the only remaining bimonthly anime news magazine published for the North American market. Trans-Atlantic competitor '' Neo'', a British-based title was shutdown in November 2024, leaving ''Otaku USA'', sister publication ''Anime USA'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Manga Magazines Published Outside Of Japan
The following is a list of notable manga magazines that were, and are published outside Japan. Not all magazines abroad published their own manga or had the rights to serialize manga originally published in Japan. To qualify for this list, the magazine has to have Serial (literature), serialized manga included, or have a section discussing manga. Manga discussion can either be through reviews, or upcoming manga release info in detail. All magazine titles are written the same way in English, unless otherwise noted. * See also *List of manga magazines *List of Japanese manga magazines by circulation *List of manga distributors References {{reflist, 20em Anime and manga magazines, Lists of magazines, Manga magazines Comics anthologies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime UK
''Anime UK'' was a British magazine founded in 1991 dedicated to Japanese animation and published for six years before ceasing publication in 1996. Peter Goll, Steve Kyte, Helen McCarthy, and Wil Overton founded the magazine in London. Published for six years, it was sold worldwide and was widely admired for its innovative design, high production standards and varied, entertaining content. Its stated aims were to make the then arcane and unknown world of Japanese animation accessible to non-Japanese speakers, and to promote a positive and open image for a medium that received some negative press during its early years in the U.K. History The magazine grew out of ''Anime UK'' newsletter, a fan publication started after the 1990 Eastercon (the British National Science Fiction Convention.) Overton, one of the early subscribers, took the newsletter to his boss Goll, who offered to fund and publish a magazine devoted to anime through his company, Sigma. McCarthy was the magazine's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Osmond (journalist)
Andrew Osmond is a British freelance journalist and writer. Biography Osmond is based in Berkshire, England, and has worked as a journalist for publications such as ''Sight and Sound'' and '' SFX'', specialising in film and animation. Osmond published a book examining the film ''Spirited Away''(2001), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, in 2008. In a review for ''Sight and Sound'', the animation scholar Rayna Denison appreciated the blend of commentary on the film with discussion of Miyazaki's career, which she felt had been done with "subtlety". She found the long plot summary to be the least compelling part of the work. Osmond wrote a book focusing on several films and television series by Satoshi Kon in 2009. The scholar Terry Hong wrote in a review for ''Library Journal'' that Osmond had afforded "painstaking" detail to each of the works covered, and appreciated the depth of research he had conducted. However, Hong found certain sections to be repetitive. In 2010, Osmond publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Clements
Jonathan Michael Clements (born 9 July 1971) is a British author and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shi Huang, as well as monthly opinion columns for '' Neo'' magazine. He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas. Background Clements speaks both Chinese and Japanese, and many of his works relate to East Asia. He wrote his master's degree at the University of Stirling on manga and anime exports, predicting the rise of several trends in the international industry including back-to-front printing, direct American investment in anime, and the proliferation of attempts to substitute non-Japanese products. Subsequently, he translated over 70 anime and manga works for British distributors, and worked as a voice director and actor. He wrote his PhD at the University of Wales on the industrial history of Japanese animation, later published by the British Film Institute as ''Anime: A History'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCM London Comic Con
The MCM Comic Con London (formerly known as the London Movies, Comics, and Media Expo, London MCM Expo, and MCM London Comic Con) is a speculative fiction fan convention held at ExCeL London, ExCel London twice yearly since 2002, usually on the last weekend in May and October. The convention primarily focuses on comic books, video games, sci-fi, cosplay, anime and popular media. History The London Movies, Comics, and Media Expo was founded in early 2001 by Paul Miley (ScifiShows) and Bryan Cooney (Wolf Events). The convention is held twice each year, usually on the last full weekend of May and October. There have occasionally been exceptions to this, such as May 2009. The event started as a single day and expanded to run across three days, attracting attendance and involvement of representatives from Universal Pictures, Universal Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, MVM Entertainment, Funimation UK, Manga Entertainment, All the Anime, Marvel Comics, and ''Neo (magazine), NEO'' mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original English-language Manga
An original English-language manga or OEL manga is a comic book or graphic novel drawn in the style of manga and originally published in English. The term "international manga", as used by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, encompasses all foreign comics which draw inspiration from the "form of presentation and expression" found in Japanese manga. This may also apply to manga-inspired comics made in other languages. History and nomenclature The growth of manga translation and publishing in the United States has been a slow progression over several decades. The earliest manga-derived series to be released in the United States was a redrawn American adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's ''Astro Boy'' published by Gold Key Comics starting in 1965. In 1979, the Gold Key published the comic book '' Battle of Planets'', based on a television series of the same name. Marvel published a series based Shogun Warriors, bringing characters of the mecha anime and manga series: '' Brave R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
