MONOGATARI Series Box Set, Final Season

Author: NISIOISIN
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1949980863
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the popular MONOGATARI Series by NISIOISIN comes the FINAL season of the novels in a beautiful new box set. Complete your collection with this must-have item for any MONOGATARI fan VOFAN, who has created beautiful cover artwork since the beginning of the series, has created exclusive new artwork just for this project. This box set will feature the new artwork and complete the MONOGATARI box set collection. Plus a beautiful art card included as a bonus item, which showcases the box set artwork. Books included in the box set: 1. TSUKIMONOGATARI 2. KOYOMIMONOGATARI part 1 3. KOYOMIMONOGATARI part 2 4. OWARIMONOGATARI part 1 5. OWARIMONOGATARI part 2 6. OWARIMONOGATARI part 3 7. ZOKU OWARIMONOGATARI

Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen (manga) 1

Author: Takaya Kagami
Publisher: Kodansha USA
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
How far would you go to get what you most desire? For Guren Ichinose, a fifteen-year-old magic user born into a lowly clan, that journey begins when he is forced to enroll at an academy run by his order's mortal enemies. There, while endlessly tormented by his insufferably privileged classmates, Guren must hide his true strength and weave his way through intrigue and deceit amid the rising winds of war. This all-new manga adaptation of the standalone light novel prequels to the hit manga Seraph of the End follows Guren as he takes his first steps toward inevitable calamity-the apocalypse that ushered in the reign of vampires. It is a tale of catastrophe, of star-crossed love, lies, and the search for an escape from destiny. How far will Guren go, and what-or whom-must he sacrifice for his ambitions?

The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition

Author: Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520389565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479

Book Description
Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular today in anime, manga, film, and video games, many yōkai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. The Book of Yōkai invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. Revised and expanded, this second edition features fifty new illustrations, including an all-new yōkai gallery of stunning color images tracing the visual history of yōkai across centuries. In clear and accessible language, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the cultural and historical contexts of yōkai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages.

The Astro Boy Essays

Author: Frederik Schodt
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 161172516X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
A tribute to Japan's "god of manga" by his longtime American friend and translator.

MONOGATARI Series Box Set, Season 2

Author: NISIOISIN
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1949980065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the popular MONOGATARI series comes the second season of the novels in a beautiful new box set. The limited edition box set features brand new artwork from VOFAN and some extras. Books included in the special limited edition box set will be: 1. Nekomonogatari White 2. Kabukimonogatari 3. Hanamonogatari 4. Otorimonogatari 5. Onimonogatari 6. Koimonogatari

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

Author: Peter A. Yacavone
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472903470
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan’s most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter A. Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s. Working from within the studio system, Suzuki almost single-handedly rejected the restrictive filmmaking norms of the postwar period and expanded the form and language of popular cinema. This artistic rebellion proved costly when Suzuki was fired in 1967 and virtually blacklisted by the studios, but Suzuki returned triumphantly to the scene of world cinema in the 1980s and 1990s with a series of critically celebrated, avant-garde tales of the supernatural and the uncanny. This book provides a well-informed, philosophically oriented analysis of Suzuki’s 49 feature films.

Global Easts

Author: Jie-Hyun Lim
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231556640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities between Korean and Polish history and politics. One realization stood out: Both Korea and Poland—at once the “West” for Asia yet “Eastern” Europe—had been assigned the role of “East.” This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia. He draws out commonalities in their experiences of modernity, in their transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and in the shaping of collective memory. Ranging across Poland, Germany, Israel, Japan, and Korea, Lim traces the global history of how notions of victimhood have become central to nationalism. He criticizes mass dictatorships of right and left in the Global Easts, considering Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt’s notion of sovereign dictatorship and the concept of decisionist democracy. Lim argues that nationalism is inherently transnational, critiquing how the nationalist imagination of the Global East has influenced countries across borders. Theoretically sophisticated and conceptually innovative, this book sheds new light on the transnational complexity of historical memory and imagination, the boundaries between democracy and mass dictatorship, and the fluidity of East and West.

MONOGATARI Series Box Set Season 1

Author: NISIOISIN
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1947194399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the popular MONOGATARI series comes the a special limited edition box set, which includes the novels in the first season Books included in the special limited edition box set will be Books that will be included in the box set are the following: 1. KIZUMONOGATARI 2. BAKEMONOGATARI 1 3. BAKEMONOGATARI 2 4. BAKEMONOGATARI 3 5. NISEMONOGATARI 1 6. NISEMONOGATARI 2 7. NEKOMONOGATARI (BLACK)

The Nation

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description

Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature

Author: Rachael Hutchinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317647718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 533

Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. The Handbook examines various modes of literary production (such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays) as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated. Attention is drawn to the idea of the bunjin as a ‘person of letters’ and a more realistic assessment is provided of how writers have engaged with ideas – not labelled a ‘novelist’ or ‘poet’, but a ‘writer’ who may at one time or another choose to write in various forms. The book provides an overview of major authors and genres by situating them within broader themes that have defined the way writers have produced literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature draws from an international array of established experts in the field as well as promising young researchers. It represents a wide variety of critical approaches, giving the study a broad range of perspectives. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Literature, Sociology, Critical Theory, and History.