The most important project of the Yokote Masuda Manga Museum is the archiving of original manga drawings. Its efforts are attracting attention as a... Since its opening in 1995, the Yokote Masuda Manga Museum has been actively involved in the collection of original manga drawings. With an emphasis... Archiving Japanese electronic games is underway. Currently, the target is early types of video games alone, and there is no prospect for archiving ... The Sapporo International Art Festival 2020 (SIAF2020), which was being prepared to begin in December 2020, was cancelled due to the effects of the... Composer KOSAKI Satoru has led the world of animation songs and animation incidental music in the 2000s and 2010s. The first part of this interview... This is a series of interviews with artists who have pioneered the expression of sounds in the world of media arts, including the fields of animati... Animation is usually appreciated focusing on painted/drawn pictures and images. But animation also incorporates various effects of lenses, such as ...OGURA Kentaro2022年8月18日 更新 Ever since the launch of Space Invaders (1978), Japanese video games have been taking the world by storm, but in addition to becoming hits, some of... Anime to senso (Anime and War) by the anime critic FUJITSU Ryota, published in the early spring of 2021 (Nippon Hyoron Sha), is a book that takes a... Due to the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), many art exhibitions are now being held online. This series of articles is devoted t... With PUI PUI Molcar creator MISATO Tomoki as a typical example, there is a growing trend for more and more creators who learned and produced animat...
What has changed most since the 1990s is probably the relationship between works and viewers. In “The Death of the Author” (1967), Roland BARTHES...IMURA Yasuko2022年3月16日 更新 Japan’s borders have been closed to tourism for nearly two years now, making social media services and online news reports a lifeline for fans keep... TANAKA Kohei is a unique composer who has been specializing in creating music for animation and video games since the 1980s until today. He started... This is a series of interviews with artists who have pioneered the expression of sounds in the world of media arts, including the fields of animati... WADA Atsushi is an award-winning animation artist whose works having intriguing and mysterious atmosphere with memorable characters have been highl... Pixel art (dotto-e in Japanese) is a form of visual representation. The term “pixel art” may imply retro game graphics as it was the mainstream of ...
The “23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Award-Winning Works Exhibition” was held from September 19 (Sat.) to 27 (Sun.). Related events, such as tal...2021年9月14日 更新
On the subject of “advertising manga,” this article explores how manga, a complex combination of panels, bubbles and other elements, have been ...
On the subject of “advertising manga,” this article explores how manga, a complex combination of panels, speech bubbles and other elements, hav...
The novel coronavirus has been spreading around the world. Amid this situation, Ring Fit Adventure, an action role-playing video game released ... The number of Hollywood-made Kaiju characters soared as the 21st century began. Today, the broadcasting period of the Ultraman series is shortened ... Godzilla has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Godzilla is the only Japanese fictional character ever honored with a star on the famous sidewal... How did “Kaiju,” derived from Japan’s Godzilla, spread across the world? How did it spread in the United States, the homeland of King Kong that sta...
Overseas enthusiasts call Japanese monsters “Kaiju,” a Japanese word meaning “monster,” to clearly distinguish them from “Monsters” in their co...
This is Part 2 of the file1 featuring the Department of Information Design of Tama Art University (hereafter referred to as TAU). The department ...
This is a series of face-to-face talks by university teachers on schools to learn media art. The file1. will spotlight Tama Art University, which...
Iku Harada is a painter who does landscapes configured with simple shapes and bright colors. The motif of this piece is a virtual island landscap... This is the fourth installment of a series of interviews with editors of manga magazines, focusing on the past and the future of the genre. This in... Manga magazines were in full flourish in the period of 1985-95. How was the scene like in those years? This subject will be thoroughly explored thr...
From May 23 to August 26, 2019, a manga exhibition titled “Citi exhibition Manga” was held at the British Museum in London, known as one of the b...YOO Sookyung2021年1月21日 更新
The 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival Exhibition of Award-winning Works was held from June 1 to June 16 in and around Miraikan (the National Museum ...2020年9月18日 更新
The 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival Exhibition of Award-winning Works was held from Saturday, June 1 to Sunday, June 16 in and around Miraikan (th...2020年9月18日 更新
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) announced in October 2019 that it would release a next-generation game console PlayStation®5 (PS5) in th...
Pixel art (dotto-e in Japanese) is a form of visual representation. The term “pixel art” implies “retro game graphics” as it was the mainstream o...
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival is the world’s largest annual animation festival. Held in Annecy, France, it features competitio... Following World War II, Japanese animation developed into a new medium of expression that had a powerful impact on various industries and even othe...2020年7月22日 更新
The fifth “PIGMENT COLOR PHILOSOPHY” talk session featuring a professional color artist as a guest was held at PIGMENT TOKYO, an art materials sh...
Japanese manga has won enthusiastic fans from all over the world. Do you know that the passions of certain people enabled Japanese manga to be ex...
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