sabato 23 maggio 2015

ROBOTS RESTAURANT AND MANGA CAFES!

Manga Cafes (Manga Kissa)

Maid cafe at Akihabara Maid CafesManga cafes are places where customers can read from a library of manga for a specified time at a corresponding fee. Guests are free to borrow and return books as many times as they wish within the time limit. Many manga cafes also allocate individual compartments, offering guests some privacy for their reading pleasure.Manga cafes can be found at almost all major city centers, usually located close to the train stations. Big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka have a large number of such establishments. Many of them offer a free flow of non-alcoholic drinks and double as internet cafes. Charges are typically about 300 yen per 30 minutes, but most offer packages such as three hours for 1100 yen.Maid cafes were originally created to fulfill the fantasies of fans of maid-themed manga and anime. The concept originated in Akihabara at the dawn of the millennium. Ever since, multiple maid cafes have been opened in the area, making Akihabara by far the best place to go for a maid cafe experience. The success of the cafes have inspired emulations at other locations in Japan and other countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, China, Canada and the United States.The primary characteristic of maid cafes are the waitresses who are dressed typically in costumes of French maids. Food and desserts served at the cafes are usually decorated in a cute way. The waitresses role-playing as maids may engage in friendly conversations or play card/video games with the customers to make them feel at home. Picture-taking is usually forbidden, but some cafes allow customers to have their picture taken with a "maid" for an additional fee.

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Robots Restaurant
Robotic restaurant is a restaurant that uses robots to do tasks such as delivering food and drinks to the tables and/or to cook the food. Restaurant automation means the use of restaurant management system to automate the major operations of a restaurant establishment. Even in the early 1970s, a number of restaurants served foods solely through vending machines. Called automats, or in Japan shokkenki, customers ordered their foods directly through the machines.

Technology

More recently, restaurants are opening that have completely or partially automated their services. These may include taking of orders, preparing of food, serving and billing. A few fully automated restaurants operate without any human intervention whatsoever. Robots are designed to help and sometimes replace human labour (such as waiters and chefs).

Famous Tokyo Robot Restaurant

Great Manga/Anime Event: The ACen

What is ACen?

Anime Central (ACen) is Chicago’s and the Midwest’s largest anime, manga and Japanese popular culture convention. The convention is currently held in Rosemont, IL, less than 30 minutes from downtown Chicago.

As part of its mission, ACen brings fans together with guests from the Japanese and US sectors of the anime and manga industry, as well as gaming, cinema, and Asian culture personalities. The event includes a huge exhibit hall, a massive video game room, concerts, dances, educational panels and workshops, premiere screenings, autograph sessions, 24-hour video rooms, tabletop gaming and much, much more!

About the Show

Anime Central (ACen) is the largest anime, manga and Japanese popular culture convention in Chicago and the Midwest. ACen happens once a year in the Spring (around April or May) less than 30 minutes from downtown Chicago, in Rosemont, IL.

Attendees can dance the night away with tens of thousands of their favorite friends and cheer while amazing DJs spin

Location

ACen is held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare and the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center.

Hyatt Regency O’Hare

The Hyatt Regency O’Hare is connected by skywalk to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, and offers convenient access to Allstate Arena and Rosemont Theatre. With over high-speed Internet across hundreds of thousands of square feet of meeting space, and Wi-Fi high-speed internet access in all over a thousand guestrooms, this O’Hare airport hotel is a standout among Hyatt hotels in Chicago.

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center

The Donald E. Stephens Convention Center offers 840,000 square feet of configurable exhibition space. With six halls, limitless floor plan options, and great contract services, it provides a stable, full-featured home for Anime Central that attendees, industry, and exhibitors enjoy year after year.

Chicago

Chicago is currently the third largest city by population in the United States, with a population of over 9 million in the metropolitan area. 34 million tourists have visited the city in past years. It has many sister cities around the world, one of which is Osaka, Japan.

The Consulate General of Japan at Chicago provides travel services and cultural information about Japan, and the Chicago Botanic Gardens has a Japanese garden, Sansho-En, and a renowned Bonsai Collection.

In addition to Japanese cultural outlets, Chicago hosts extremely vibrant theater, music, sports, and food scenes. It is home to the Second City and I.O. comedy troupes; numerous symphonies, jazz ensembles, indie bands, hip-hop groups, and clubs; an array of major league sports teams; and restaurants serving fine cuisine from just about every culture on Earth.

How to Make Your Own Anime or Manga Character

There are five important parts to make a perfect Manga/Anime character:

1 Finding Their Personality

2 Creating Compelling Stories

3 Drawing Your Character

4 Improving Your Skills

5 Sample Character Descriptions

If you're working on drawing your own manga or even if you just want to write a fanfic for your favorite anime or manga, you'll want to make a character who is interesting and makes people want to read your story (without becoming a Mary Sue!). WikiHow can show you how to write interesting characters, as well as teach you how to draw them! Get started with Step 1 below or check out the Table of Contents above for more specific help.

Part 1 of 4: Finding Their Personality

1
Decide their blood type. Blood type is seen as a common indicator of personality in Japan. You can use this as a way to help decide what you want your character to be like. The blood types and associated personalities are:
- O - confident, optimistic and strong-willed but also self-centered and unpredictable
- A - creative, reserved and responsible but also stubborn and tense
- B - active and passionate but also selfish and irresponsible
- AB - adaptable and rational but also forgetful and critical
2

Decide their birth date. The Western Zodiac or the Eastern Zodiac can both also be used to determine personality. You can use this to choose your character's age or birth year and their birth date.
3

Use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. If you really want to get an idea for a fully formed personality, you can check out the Myers-Briggs personality test. These personality types, based in the study of psychology, can be helpful in fleshing out your character's personality.
4
Use a personality balancer. You'll also want to be sure to balance your character's personality. A balance of positive and negative traits is necessary to create a compelling, believable character. Count up your character's negative traits and positive traits and try to make the negative traits slightly outnumber the positive ones. By the end of your story, your character will have developed to overcome a few of the negative traits. Example negative traits include:
- Manipulative
- Often lies
- Insults others
- Uncaring about their impact on others
- Focused on only their own goals
- Has poor impulse control
- Frequently resentful, even of small or accidental slights
- Is usually reckless or impulsive
5
Give them a great name. Many people also believe that someone's name can affect their personality. Studies have show that having an uncommon name can lead to bullying and the personality issues that result from being bullied. There are also people who believe a name can determine your whole personality (called Kabalarians). This, whether true or not, can help you decide on a name.
- Try to avoid using really unusual names in an otherwise realistic setting. This makes your character seem out of place.

Part 2 of 4: Creating Compelling Stories

1

Identify your character's ending goal. Where do you want your character to end up? What do you want their lesson to be over the course of your story? What do you want them to have learned or changed? You can use your character's ending state to figure out how to portray them in the beginning.
2

Identify your character's beginning. Once you know where they end up, decide where you want them to start out. This should follow logically from where they end. For example, if you want a character that learns to appreciate others, you want to show them not appreciating the people that care about them in the beginning. You probably also want to show why they think they don't need people.
3

Decide how they get there. Think about where you want them to start and end. Now, what would lead someone to change like that? This is where you can get some great ideas for your story, because the things that happen to your character to make them change makes for great plot or subplot.
4

Avoid the cliches. Their girlfriend gets killed. They were orphaned at a young age. They grew up the perpetual new kid. These are all cliches meant to jump start your character's development. And because they're cliches, they tend to be boring. Try to avoid them. Work to be original in your character development. This will make people more interested in your character and want to follow your story.

Part 3 of 4: Drawing Your Character

1

Choose a style. Different types of anime and manga are often drawn in different styles. You can just use your own natural style or you can emulate the look of classic artists for different genres. Shojo and shonen anime and manga are the two most common genres.
2
Draw the character. Keep in mind that cute characters usually have wide eyes while cool characters have small, slanted eyes. Check out these resources on how to draw your character:
- Here's how to draw an anime character:
- Here's how to draw a manga character:
3

Take design cues from your character's personality and history. Add clothing and accessories. Let your choices help reflect your character's personality and history. For example, if you have a female character who tends to be very practical, put her in flats rather than heels. If you want to hint at a character's past, think of things that they might wear or keep that are significant to them. For example, in The Legend of Korra, Mako wears his father's scarf at all times. Be creative!

1

Study human anatomy. Making characters that look good starts with a basic knowledge of human anatomy. You don't want to make your character look like they have too many muscles or too few, too many joints or too few, a badly disproportionate body, etc. Get a good anatomy book and learn about where our bones and muscles are, how they bend, and where they line up.
2

Draw from life. Drawing a manga character requires a basic knowledge of the human body. The more you can draw humans,the easier would it be to draw a manga. So start with drawing (for practice) your friends and even yourself sitting in front of a mirror.
3
Practice different, dynamic poses. To draw poses for your character, you can take images of yourself doing those poses and then try to draw your character in those poses with the help of the images. You can also use helpful websites like posemaniacs.com for reference.
- Try to keep anatomy in mind when you do these poses. You don't want your character to end up looking like a Rob Liefeld drawing.
4

Keep practicing! The more you practice, the better you'll get.

UPCOMING ANIME 2015!

If you like Anime, here there are Upcoming Anime of 2015 and a little review of Recent Anime!

	Okusama ga Seito Kaichō! (TV)	2015-07-01
	Wooser no Sono Higurashi Mugen-hen (TV 3)	2015-07-03
	Classroom Crisis (TV)	2015-07-03
	Wakaba Girl (TV)	2015-07-03
	Miss Monochrome (TV 2)	2015-07-03
	Wakako-zake (TV) 26-year old Wakako drinks different kinds of sake at bars alone every night, searching for her place to belong.	2015-07-05
	God Eater (TV)	2015-07-05
	Teekyū (TV 5)	2015-07-06
	Jitsu wa Watashi wa (TV)	2015-07-06
	Danchigai (TV)	2015-07-09

Recent anime

	Name & Description	Premiere date
	Nar Doma (TV) The unorthodox hard surreal gag comedy centers around the narcissistic (narushi na) hagito and the masochistic (domazo na) kei together they are nar - doma, hagito is a handsome yet pitiful man with a lolicon complex. Anytime, anywhere, a mirror is his constant companion surrounding him are a host of highly idiosyncratic characters the die-hard masochist kei the unnaturally strong yet girlish totono the exceedingly stylish working stiff saitou and the extraordinarily negative roku even the one normal guy has his own issues	2015-05-16
	Lupin the Third (TV 2015)	2015-04
	Pikaia! (TV) The story begins in the future when Earth itself is no longer inhabitable by living creatures. Humans began their interstellar migration with space colonies. Vince and Hana work as researchers in the Cambrian Project. Together with the creature Pikaia, they seek the Lost Code, the key to restoring Earth, and aim to return to Cambrian-era Earth.	2015-04-29
	Eden of Grisaia (TV)	2015-04-19
	Sushi and Beyond (TV) Inspired by a book of Japanese cuisine, British travel and dining journalist Michael Booth took his family -- his wife Lissen, their boys Ansger and Emil -- to Japan for 100 days, in order to enjoy as many types of Japanese foods as possible.	2015-04-12
	Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (TV) One day, high school boy Yamada bumps into the beautiful female honor student Shiraishi on the stairs (literally), and their lips touch as they fall. When they regain their wits, they realize that they have swapped bodies. As time progresses, the two realize that this is not the only mysterious happening in the school.	2015-04-12
	Future Card Buddyfight 100 (TV) While Tasuku is off training and getting rest in the world of the monsters, the Buddy Police sees the need to deputize some of the champions to help protect the Earth. Gao, Tetsuya, and Zanya Kisaragi are among those deputized, and it's just in time. A new enemy arrives, Ikazuchi, with the deadly 100 demons, all rogue monsters. Now the new trainees and the Great 8 monsters must fight to protect Earth from being consumed by these new rogues.	2015-04-11
	Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold (TV)	2015-04-11
	Nisekoi: (TV)	2015-04-10
	Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine (TV)	2015-04-10

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venerdì 22 maggio 2015

Japanese popular culture not only reflects the attitudes and concerns of the present but also provides a link to the past. Japanese cinema, cuisine,television programs, anime, manga, and music all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms. Contemporary forms of popular culture, much like the traditional forms, provide not only entertainment but also an escape for the contemporary Japanese from the problems of an industrial world. When asked how they spent their leisure time, 80 percent of a sample of men and women surveyed by the government in 1986 said they averaged about two and one-half hours per weekday watching television, listening to the radio, and reading Japanese newspapers or magazines. Some 16 percent spent an average of two and one-quarter hours a day engaged in hobbies or amusements. Others spent leisure time participating in sports, socializing, and personal study. Teenagers and retired people reported spending more time on all of these activities than did other groups.

In the late 1980s, the family was the focus of leisure activities, such as excursions to parks or shopping districts. Although Japan is often thought of as a hard-working society with little time for pleasure, the Japanese seek entertainment wherever they can. It is not unusual to see train commuters enjoying their favorite manga or listening through earphones to pop music on portable music players, although as of 2014 the mobile phone is ubiquitous.

A wide variety of types of popular entertainment are available. There is a large selection of music, films, and the products of a huge comic book industry, among other forms of entertainment, from which to choose. Game centers, bowling alleys, and karaoke parlors are well-known hangout places for teens while older people may play shogi or go in specialized parlors.

But...let's go to analyse Manga and Anime in Japanese Culture.

Manga

The word Manga, when translated directly, means “whimsical drawings”. Manga are typically not 'comic books' as the West understands them; rather, they represent pieces of Japanese culture and history. The 'manga' style has an extensive history, beginning sometime in the 10th century; scrolls from that period depict animals as part of the 'upper class', behaving as a typical human would in similar situations. Such scrolls would go on to be known as the Chōjū giga or “The Animal Scrolls”.

Scrolls found later on in the 12th century would depict images of religion such as the Gaki Zoshi (Hungry Ghost Scrolls) and the Jigoku zoshi (Hell Scrolls). While both dealt with various aspects of religion, unlike “The Animal Scrolls”, these provided a more instructive viewpoint, rather than a comedic style.

Manga are more significant, culturally, than Western comic books (though many fill the same role). Originally, manga were printed indaily newspapers; in the Second World War, newsprint rationing caused a downsurge in manga popularity. In the post-war 1950s, they made a resurgence in the form of “picture card shows”, which were a style of storytelling supplemented by the use of illustrations, and the highly popular “rental manga” that would allow their readers to rent these illustrated books for a period of time.

Moe-style illustration of a bishōjo character

Anime

Anime is a movie or episode of sorts which utilizes an animated cartoon art style to convey a story. Unlike Western cartoons, anime frequently tends to have more detailed character design. This can be used to allow for a better connection between the viewer and the character. Anime is based most of the time on animated comics or manga, which is an ancient form of comic writing which dates all the way to the 12th century.

The world of animated films in Japanese popular culture has been a growing trend since the 1920s. Influenced by Walt Disney and his animated characters, Osamu Tezuka (1925–1989), also known as "manga no kamisama" (which means, "God of Comics") would begin his forty-year evolution of animation, or anime, that would change the content of Japanese comic books. With the creation of his first animated character Astroboy that was unlike any other animated character; he found the hearts of the Japanese public with a robotic boy who has spiky hair, eyes as big as fists, with rockets on his feet.^[8]

Through the decades in which anime has been created, there have been various types of genre which have been made. They include various types from mechs to sci-fi; all have their own meaning when being made and have a representation on Japanese society. Such as the anime film Howl’s Moving Castle (film) made in 2004, which entitled many anti-war themes within it and by doing so made it more influential on the Japanese community. The growth of anime over the decades has been very important culturally for Japan because anime allows for a common ground to be explored.

Anime have expanded in such a way in Japanese culture that they have been made into by products that sell toys, clothing lines, and even many have been turned into video games to allow for a broader market to be touched.

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