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Yaoi-Con
Yaoi-Con (sometimes YaoiCon) was an annual three-day anime convention, founded in 2001, aimed at fans of yaoi-related anime, manga, and other aspects of Asian culture. It typically took place during the Fall in California. Since the 2012 edition, its organizer and main sponsor was Digital Manga Publishing. It was known mostly for its unique events that use volunteers known as " bishounen". The bishounen were male volunteers who represented the attractive characters shown in Yaoi manga, and ran many of the events. Programming As with other anime conventions, Yaoi-Con had panels and workshops (with a yaoi twist), a 24-hour video room, a manga library, swap meet, a Dealers' Room filled with merchandise, a cosplay Masquerade and an anime music video contest. In addition, Yaoi-Con held a fan fiction contest, Bishounen Bingo, and its extraordinarily popular Saturday night fundraising Bishounen Auction. At bingo, and the auction, the bishounen volunteers put on shows and stripped to en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Higuri
is a Japanese '' shōjo'' and yaoi manga artist who has made several appearances at anime and manga conventions in the United States, as well as in Germany. Her first U.S. appearance was at the initial Yaoi-Con in San Francisco in 2001 (Yaoi-Con 2001, 3). She is known especially for her drawings of beautiful fantasy men in romantic storylines set in historical Europe, such as ''Gorgeous Carat'' in early 20th-century France and ''Cantarella'' during the Italian Renaissance. Her comic art influences include Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, and the Showa 24 generation of women manga artists led by Moto Hagio who created girls' comics in the 1970s (Yaoi-Con 2001, 3; Higuri Q & A, 2004). She has also found inspiration in Franco-Belgian comics or ''bandes dessinées''. Published works (This list does not include her ''dōjinshi'' or self-published comics.) * ''Azel Seimaden,'' 1994 - prequel to ''Seimaden'' * ''Sento no Hishin,'' 1994 * , 1994-1999 * ''Lost Angel,'' 1996 * ''Ludwig II'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youka Nitta
, born March 8, 1971, is a Japanese yaoi manga artist. Although Nitta was already a fan of manga, she was introduced to yaoi manga when she was in grade five, by an older girl who was her neighbour. Her first manga story, "GROUPIE", was published by Biblos in 1997. She believes in characters not always having to be the seme or uke,O’Connell, M"Embracing Yaoi Manga: Youka Nitta" ''Sequential Tart''. April 2006. and her ''Embracing Love'' has been called the first title available with a "reversible" couple in English. In 2008 it was reported that Nitta had infringed upon the copyright of advertising photographs by tracing them for illustrations in her manga ''Embracing Love''; she subsequently apologized for the misuse, as did her publisher. Nitta attended the 2002 Yaoi-Con and the 2006 New York Comic Con but cancelled her planned appearance at the 2008 Yaoi-Con in the aftermath of the tracing scandal. Bibliography * ''Groupie'', 1997, 1 volume * Series, 1997, 9 volumes :Serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaoi
''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the '' wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for women and is distinct from homoerotic media marketed to gay men, but it does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. It spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. "Boys' love" and "BL" are the generic terms for this kind of media in Japan and much of Asia; though the terms are used by some fans and commentators in the West, ''yaoi'' remains more generally prevalent in English. The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga, or comics for girls. Several terms were used for the new genre, including , , and . The term ''yaoi'' emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of culture as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinako Takanaga
is a Japanese yaoi manga artist from Nagoya. She has also provided illustrations for several yaoi light novels by other authors, including '' The Guilty'' by Katsura Izumi. Most of her works have been translated into English and German (chiefly by Tokyopop imprints). Her influences include Suzue Miuchi, Yun Koga and Range Murata. Biography Hinako Takanaga was born on September 16 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Her first manga story, , was published by Hanamaru Comics in 1995. As the story continued it was later retitled '' Challengers'', and it spawned a spinoff series titled ''The Tyrant Falls in Love''. She currently lives in Osaka. She was a guest at Yaoi-Con in 2007 and 2010, invited by Digital Manga Publishing, the US publishers of her popular series ''Little Butterfly'' and ''The Tyrant Falls in Love''. Bibliography Manga * , 1995, 4 volumes * , 1999, 1 volume (This work has an English subtitle; as of September 2011 it is not licensed in English.) * , 2001, 3 volumes * Love R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuma Kodaka
is a Japanese manga artist. Kodaka made her debut in 1989 in the magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' with ''Sessa Takuma!''. She mainly writes manga in the Boys Love genre, featuring homosexual relationships between men for women, and has been described as "a pioneer and top-ranked artist" in the genre. She decided to enter the Boys Love genre as a result of reading parody manga with yaoi themes, finding them "more interesting" than regular ''shōjo'' manga and more psychologically complex than ''shōnen'' manga. She has also written many ''dojinshi'' which are famous, but difficult to obtain, from the series ''Prince of Tennis'', ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', ''Hikaru no Go'', '' Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo'' and ''Slam Dunk''. She designed the characters for the ''My Sexual Harassment'' OVA. She taught herself how to draw, but one of her design influences is Rumiko Takahashi. She draws by hand, not using computers, and learned ''shōjo'' manga techniques from Sanami Mato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Chen
Jo Chen (; born July 4, 1976) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for her highly detailed painted comic book covers. In the Japanese comic industry she is also known by the pen name TogaQ and is known as Jun Togai ("Togai Jun" 咎井淳). Early life Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and emigrated to the United States in late 1994. Career Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age fourteen, she began her career in the U.S. comic book industry with her art work for the Racer X mini-series, part of the Speed Racer series published by Wildstorm/DC Comics in 2000. She established herself producing interiors and covers for titles including '' Darkminds: Macropolis'', '' Battle of the Planets'', ''Robotech'', ''Fight For Tomorrow'', ''Taskmaster'', '' The Demon'', ''Thor'', and '' (Batman &) Robin''. Currently she is most well known to American comic readers as the cover artist of ''Runaways'', and Joss Whedon's ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Drazen
''Anime Explosion! The What? Why? & Wow! Of Japanese Animation'' is a book of essays about anime written by Patrick Drazen. It was published on January 1, 2002 by Stone Bridge Press. The first half of the book defines "what anime is, what it is not, and more important, how it differs from American cartoons in general and TV-based American entertainment in particular." The second half looks into "individual “films and directors.”" The book is used as a text in the "History and Art of Animation" course at Clarkson University, in the "Japanese Animation: Still Pictures, Moving Minds" course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the "Animation: History and Criticism" course at Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of h .... Reviews Anime News Netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Manga Publishing
Digital Manga is a California-based publishing company that licenses and releases Japanese manga, anime, and related merchandise in the English language. Digital Manga also owns and operates eManga, a digital publishing site for manga and light novels, that publishes books and e-book editions of works from other publishers. The non-publishing division includes Pop Japan Travel (a tour service) and several e-retail sites for books and for import products, including Akadot Retail and Yaoi Club. Since 2011, Digital Manga has utilized Kickstarter for funds. The first Kickstarter project was to reprint Osamu Tezuka's titles, and the most successful project to be funded was to print the Finder series by Yamane Ayano. Subdivisions Digital Manga Publishing The company has co-published manga with publishing house Dark Horse Comics, including ''Berserk'', '' Hellsing'', '' The Ring'', and ''Trigun''. Imprints * The DMP Books imprint is used for general-audience manga. The co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millbrae, California
Millbrae is a city located in northern San Mateo County, California, United States. To its northeast is San Francisco International Airport, San Bruno is on its northwest, and Burlingame on its southeast. It is bordered by San Andreas Lake to the southwest. The population was 23,216 at the 2020 census. History The Ohlone people have been living in the Bay Area for hundreds of years. The closest villages to what is now Millbrae were located by the banks of San Bruno Creek, and they are known as Urebure and Siplichiquin. A third nearby village—whose original name is unknown—is called CA-SMA-299. The local Ohlone people are today called the Ramaytush Ohlone, however this name is a linguistic designation that arose relatively recently. Prior to colonization, the Ohlone did not operate as a single consolidated unit; they identified more with their local tribe and village than with the nation at large. The several local tribes that lived in the area prior to colonizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
