Lets look at Akira
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Akira. This is possible the most popular anime film ever. Since it's debut in 1988, it has opened up new horizons for what an animated film could be. This page is here to give you insight into the anime, and it's creator, Katsuhiro Otomo.
The manga was eventually redistributed in a series of 5 giant book editions, each of which were best sellers. In 1988, the manga made it's way to America, published by Epic, a division of Marvel Comics. The english version was also colorized. It had some of the most impressive coloring in a comic book ever, at the time. The english version finally finished publication in late 1995.
Katsuhiro Otomo was soon presented with the oppurtunity to turn Akira into an anime. He was actually involved with the creation of the film, something manga artists and writers rarely get to do. Otomo took on the project enthusiastically. He was the director, and in charge of the story, screenplay, and storyboards. Most impressive perhaps is his turning an 1800 page story into a 2 hour anime film. The transition is pulled off rather well. The films greatness is due a great part to his never compromising for second best. He loves his work, and wants it to be perfect. We wouldn't have it any other way!
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ANIME ANALYSIS:
This anime was revolutionary in the industry, for it proved that animation could be for more than just for little kids. The film is one of the most complex, thought out story's ever to be presented in animation form.
There are many themes in Akira, but the theme most explored is power. This is shown on many levels; from the government trying to control the society gone wild, to the army trying to control a power beyond human comprehension. Also shown is the fact that absolute power, corrupts absolute. Tetsuo is the epitomy of what power in the wrong hands can do. The film points out what humanity is capable of.
I find it interesting that the film revolves around one boy, and the impact he has on everybody's lives. Everyone is seeking him for their own reasons. The people hold him in legend as their savior. The army has him, and they seek to understand his power for their own goals. Kaneda and his friends want to figure out just who Akira is, and Tetsuo wants to find the source of his power. Akira, in a way, becomes their holy grail. They all quest for it, yet the toll is too great to recieve.
be the star of the film; but it is Tetsuo that is the most fascinating. He is a troubled boy, with a inferiority complex and is picked on by everybody. He never had a stable mind to begin with, and the powers he recieved pushed him over the edge. He wanted to be the man everybody looks up to, and ended up the man everybody fears.
Actually, in a film that makes it hard to cheer for a hero, I find myself siding with Tetsuo every time I watch it. You cannot help but sympathize with him. Yes, he may be the "bad guy", but his strong, determined will always impresses me. He strives to rise above his lot in life, and does so in a way no one could have imagined! In the scene right after Tetsuo and Kaori are attacked by the clown gang, he becomes violently angry, and even snaps at his friends. He then says the most omminous words in the movie. "You think I'm a loser! It's not my fault I was smaller! Well there will come a day when I'll show all of you! Don't you forget it!" How can we ever forget, upon seeing the ending to the film?!
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Marvels bankruptcy
Smash! Pow! Bam!
Why superheroes go bankrupt
By Jeremy Lott
Mega-investor Ron Perelman has all the traits of a comic book supervillain. He’s massively wealthy and powerful. More to the point, he exudes enough vanity and overreach to make Lex Luthor and Dr. Doom seem like a couple of Girl Scouts. So it’s not surprising to see Perelman slugging it out with rival billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on the cover of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire...And Both Lost!!! (Broadway Books). As described by journalist Dan Raviv, the board room brouhaha between Perelman and Icahn isn’t just the most entertaining battle royale since Superman and Muhammad Ali punched each other’s lights out in a late-’70s comic. It’s a cautionary tale about mismanaging intellectual property.
In 1989 Perelman, best known as head honcho at the cosmetics company Revlon, surprised the investment world by outbidding a number of rivals to buy Marvel. Perelman spoke of the comics publisher as a "mini Disney in terms of intellectual property" and promised to take the company to that vaunted stage of corporate nirvana, the next level. Perelman boasted that there would be more merchandising, more glitz, and -- at long last! -- good movies based on Marvel’s rich stable of characters: Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Uncanny X-Men, and Daredevil.
For a few years, Perelman was invincible. The early ’90s saw a collectibles boom that lifted comic book sales. Foil-embossed covers, multiple covers for the same issue, and issues shrink-wrapped with giveaways encouraged folks to buy several copies and wait for the price to rise. The boost in comics’ value helped bring about new respect for the oft-maligned genre. "The Wizard" -- Raviv’s sobriquet for Perelman -- branched out, purchasing baseball card and sticker companies.
Then the 1994 baseball strike nearly erased the value of Marvel’s card and sticker divisions. Even worse, the speculative bubble in comic books burst, shocking the whole industry and pushing Marvel into bankruptcy. It also revealed how little Perelman really understood the comic book industry.
For much of the century, comics had traditionally been sold in drugstores and newsstands. But by the ’90s the overwhelming majority of sales were though small-time comic specialty shops, which were serviced by over a dozen distributors. This system was inefficient from the publishers’ perspective, but it provided options for storeowners living on slim profit margins. The competition benefited them, and they could often switch from distributor A to B when their tabs got too big.
One way Marvel tried to cut its losses in the ’90s was by directly distributing its own comics. That move not only ran several distributors out of business, it also shuttered many comic book shops and did real damage to overall sales. The company’s hamfistedness earned it the enmity of many fans, who undertook a boycott of all things Marvel.
It wasn’t just business tactics that bothered fans. Marvel’s often hostile approach to its creative talent undercut quality and led to the exodus of its most popular artists, who formed Image Comics in 1992. And despite his bluster, Perelman never seriously tried to deliver movies based on Marvel characters -- he didn’t trust "Hollywood accounting."
In Raviv’s telling, Perelman is a remarkably unperceptive man who never understood exactly what he was buying or what to do with it. Yet Perelman’s comparison of Marvel to Disney has turned out to be more apt than he knew. Though a nearly unparalleled entertainment powerhouse today, Disney went through years so lean in the ’70s and ’80s that its imminent demise was taken for granted. It was only with the massive success of The Little Mermaid (1989) that Disney rejuvenated its film division and fully reversed its long-slumping fortunes.
The lesson from Disney’s experience? It is no easy matter to develop and retain talent, to properly package creative content, and to effectively deliver it to audiences -- all while turning a buck.
That’s a lesson that the new owners of Marvel, Ike Perlemutter and Avi Arad, seem to have learned. While its comic book sales continue to putter along, Marvel has scored critical and commercial successes with films such as 2000’s X-Men and this year’s Spider-Man. 2003 promises more of the same, with A-list director Ang Lee putting out The Hulk, Hollywood heartthrob Ben Affleck donning red tights to play Daredevil, and an X-Men sequel hitting theaters.
And in a hidden lair somewhere, no doubt, Ron "The Wizard" Perelman plots his revenge.
Jeremy Lott is Reason’s 2002 Burton C. Gray Memorial Intern.
Why Miracleman will Shock you younger readers😄
When Alan Moore is asked to talk about his comics, he usually talks about how his bad mood in the eighties affected comics, and that's much more prevalent here than in Swamp Thing or Watchmen. A lot of that might have something to do with the fact that those comics were just better, in terms of art and craft. This sometimes attempts a "sense of wonder" but it seems canned. Reading it, it seems like Moore is much more into the terrible degradation. ****, the Kid Miracleman stuff, to me, seems like it set the precedent for all of Mark Millar's career. [spoilers] So, once this kid says the world Miracleman, he'll become Kid Miracleman. But Kid Miracleman has a different mind, and is evil! So he doesn't want to release this horrible thing. His life becomes progressively shitty in the mental hospital he's staying at. But he endures! He makes the sacrifice. Until the other kids, bullys, RAPE the kid. That's when he says the word. Cue an incredibly violent fight scene that lasts for an issue. It makes you feel bad. Lots of people dying. Miracleman wins, gets Kid Miracleman to turn back into a human kid, and then crushes the kid's head so another disaster doesn't occur.
This is why its genius..............
It actually makes you feel bad!!!!!!
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This is an interesting article kids😄
Banning violent comics for teenagers under the age of eighteen
Do you like reading violent comics? How often do you read them? Every August, the Hong Kong Comics Festival is held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. A lot of comic books, including the violent ones, are exhibited. This attracts more than thirty thousands visitors , especially youngsters, to go there and buy the violent comics. The case happened in Sheung Shui La Salle College aroused the awareness of school violence. Some people are concerned about this phenomenon and urge the government to ban the violent comics for teenagers under the age of eighteen. They worry about that these comic books will harm our future leaders. I really share their view. In this essay, I will argue that banning violent comics for teenagers under the age of eighteen. should be implemented.
In fact, reading those violent comics is really time-wasting. What can the youngsters really learn from those books? The kungfu? The ways to torture or kill our enemies? Actually, the teenagers are just lured by the excitement of the fighting and bloody scene in the violent comics. Reading those comics will only squander time meaninglessly. As we all know, the schedule of the Hong Kong’s education curriculum is very tight. Students are required to grasp different knowledge within a very short period of time. Once they get addicted to reading violent comics, they will dedicate all their spirits into the comic books but not their academic studies. As a corollary, they can learn nothing useful. Since Hong Kong has the knowledge-based economy, we need to have a high academic qualification; otherwise, we have to struggle hard for survival in the future. Thus, the violent comics should be banned for teenagers under the age of eighteen. Thereby, they can be more concentrated on their studies and have more time to equip themselves well to raise their competitiveness. Our society’s future will therefore become promising.
On top of wasting their time, the violent comic books will adversely affect the youngsters’ routine activities. Once they get hooked on reading those diabolic comics, they can hardly kick it, as they lack self-discipline. In effect, they will just cage themselves in their own room and immerse into the unreal world. Those teenagers will no longer want to go out to enlarge their social circle or communicate with others. As they are confined to their own world, they will become egocentric and have poor interpersonal skills and communication skills. Those teenagers will therefore have no friends to share their ups and downs. Thus, they will be very lonely and their mental growth will be impaired.
The main theme describing the protagonists to use violence to protect our world and get rid of antagonists will directly influence the youngsters’ morality. Teenagers receive wrong message that violence is the only solution to the problem.. Although the importance of having relaxation should not be neglected, reading those violent comics is not a wise choice. Yet, in a civilized society, violence is not allowed. However, those wrong concepts from violent comics have been instilled to youngsters. Thus, once, they meet barriers in their road to success, they will use violence to knock them down and try every means to achieve their goals. Of course, that is absolutely wrong, but the youngsters are still immature and lack of the ability to distinguish between the black and the white. If all our future leaders only use such an uncivilized way to solve problems, the future of our society will be bleak.
All in all, reading violent comics embodies plethora of demerits, and some of them even will directly affect the future of our world. In fact, there are many wholesome activities for young people to relax, say, hiking, swimming, playing basketball and the like. These activities are beneficial to both their physical and mental growth. The government should implement this proposal as soon as possible, in order to help youngsters to ward off those violent comics. I really do not want to see our society to become a grim one!
Over the forthcoming weeks fans I will start to tell you more of my opinions on comic books and provide less cut and pasted information to educate you all😄
At the moment I am just trying to give you some essential historical and philosophical information which I feel is very important for all to know about comics.
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