Category: Anime & Manga
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Nantala Kantala
As far as I can tell, Nantala Kantala is a Japanese illustrator, and/or anime artist. I only have this site to go by, and Google Translate has been of little help. I did find, however, that the characters to the immediate left of the top image are links to other images. I’m even unsure, as…
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Out of Sight
Out of Sight is an absolutely beautiful short animation from Taiwan. it is about, among other things, imagination, sensation and the way input from our senses gradually expands our world. It’s also a sublime evocation of a point of view most of us haven’t experienced. This was done by three students from the National Taiwan…
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Barefoot Gen (Keiji Nakazawa)
Contrary to popular belief, the horror of nuclear war is not the stuff of science fiction; humanity has already experienced a nuclear war, albeit a limited one; it was called World War II; a war in which nuclear weapons were dropped on cities full of people. Those whose impression of the medium we call “comics”…
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Chiho Aoshima
Working digitally in a vector art program (presumably Illustrator), and outputting her images on a large scale printer, Chiho Aoshima creates wall-size installations, “wallpapers” and environments. Coming from a background that did not include any formal art training, Aoshima’s images are full of brightly colored, cartoon style landscapes, citiscapes and fantasy environments, populated with cheery-looking…
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Paprika
Despite the fact that mainstream American audiences associate anime (Japanese animation) with giant robots bashing each other about while they tramp hip deep in skyscrapers, Japanese directors have long been willing to tackle sophisticated subjects that producers of American full-length animated features would never even consider. American studios are still under the impression (perhaps unfortunately…
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the asia drawing portal
This is a tremendously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere. Though the emphasis is a bit more focused on contemporary artists, the site is a bit like lines and colors in terms of the different genres covered: illustration, gallery art, comics, concept art…