Ancient and noble “nude” Shinto festival celebrating the generative powers of man, or a scene from a gratuitous mass fundoshi AV shot out in the backwoods, though also celebrating man’s generative powers, in a way?
It seems the AV option is correct in this case (possibly some of you have even seen the title in question), but of course there are examples of the real thing only slightly less stimulating…
Major manga publisher Kodansha have begun free online distribution of a manga under the terms of the Creative Commons license, a first. Kodansha’s CC terms stipulate free reproduction of the title as long as it is “non-commercial”, unchanged and maintains attribution – they are even encouraging blogs to reproduce the title.
The manga in question is a new title, みかこさん / Mikako-san, by lady mangaka 今日マチ子 / Kyou Machiko, who has a number of works to her name, including online comics; she is not by any stretch a major author, though does have some awards and and plenty of publications to her credit.
Certainly more important than the actual title being so licensed are the implications of this decision. Is this reflective of a new approach to copyright by the publisher, in tune with the increasing scepticism of “a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past”, as CC founder Lawerence Lessig would have it?
Or perhaps a desire to experiment with new distribution models for manga and other such publications?
You can forget about that; Kodansha freely admits: “Those who are introduced to, and read and like this work [will hopefully] spread word of the work across the Internet.”
So just a marketing ploy, then? It seems unlikely to have any significant future without some form of revenue generation potential.
Perhaps much more significant is the gradual formalisation of the relationship between publishers and creators of derivative works, although this is clearly not accepted by the more conservative old media enterprises.
Let us gamely reproduce issue 1 below anyway:
A gallery of high quality cosplay images of Clannad’s Tomoyo Sakagami, portrayed convincingly by cosplayer Ponko, is presented below.
As with several of our recent posts on superb cosplay featuring the likes of Geass’ Kallen and Macross F’s Sheryl, this is another find from a generous user on the Sankaku forums.
Cosplay photos taken with the Big Sight as a backdrop do carry their own certain sort of appeal…
The fine cosplay images come to us via the benevolence of linkinstreet, who made a post about these photos on our forums and put them on his blog.
Some 2D references are below (and on the Channel), if you’re looking to compare to the cosplay:
Hopefully, these happy images of one of the series’ characters might help to soothe the hearts of Clannad fans, considering recent and upcoming events in the series…
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=xANzHUNKH8U&feature=related
is this what /d/ faps to?
Rumors of third Negima! series are currently spreading online, fueled by comments made by Starchild and series creator Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina) himself.
The main catalyst for this is Akamatsu’s blog declaring that some sort of new media project will be announced at an upcoming Negima event next month.
The first hint of a new series comes from comments made from a Starchild representative in the as of now unreleased Dengeki G’s March 2009 issue. Supposedly, the representative mentions “two new releases based on manga original works sometime around autumn, (including) a moe production on a popular series.”
Fans identified Negima as being the most likely candidate from Starchild’s past works, as it is a popular manga-based series that could easily warrant a new sequel. Following news of the leaked comment, an entry in Akamatsu’s online journal on January 27th lent support to the idea of a new series:
The day before yesterday I wrote “I really want to gauge the feelings of the 2000 people that are going to be at the upcoming event”, but that actually wasn’t concerning the development of the Negima manga (^^;)
The matter that I actually wanted to discuss at the event are the details of a new media-mix (multimedia project). The reason why is that because it’ll be an opportunity to see fellow countrymen (manga readers) and to experience first-hand their reactions and opinions. There will be printouts to help jump-start the discussion handed out at the event (or so I hope).
The event in question is a Negima event set for February 11th to commemorate the end of the Shiroki Tsubasa Ala Alba OVA series, fully named “We’re going to show everything!? Negi Full-Crew Assembly Party”. Details on the event are available at the Shiroki Tsubasa official website.
Since the event is focused on the Shaft produced OVA series and is advertised on that series’ official website and none of the other various Negima franchise websites, it is not much of a leap to assume that Shaft would be involved in the new series if one is actually made.
Whether this possible new series could be an TV series or not is another matter for speculation, but most online discussion points toward a TV series for some nebulous reason…
The details are far from concrete, especially as the Starchild representative’s comments are basically unverifiable, but the hints from Akamatsu’s journal are indeed compelling.
It seems likely that expectant fans will only have to wait a small while until the Negima event takes place in order to have a definite answer.
anyone has any links for some male on futa/shemale comics/doujinshi / whatever?
and don’t get me started with the pic
The cover art (it’s not clear about the actual content) for the Japanese console versions of X-Blades, which happen to be getting voice work by famed seiyuu Rie Kugimiya, differs rather less than subtly between versions.
Why all these differences are felt necessary is perhaps best left for you to consider…
Via Chirashi no Ura.
In case you were wondering, and perhaps mocking the PS3, the version for western markets is even less stimulating:
