Definitions by Snapper2001
Kamishibai
Kamishibai (Japanese: 紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television during the twentieth century. Kamishibai was told by a kamishibaiya ("kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the story by changing each image.1
Kamishibai has its earliest origins in Japanese Buddhist temples where Buddhist monks from the eighth century onward used emakimono ("picture scrolls") as pictorial aids for recounting their history of the monasteries, an early combination of picture and text to convey a story.2
Kamishibai by Snapper2001 April 13, 2021
Korak
The story of Korak's youth and growth to manhood was told in the fourth novel, The Son of Tarzan, in which he returned to Africa and lived in the jungle, taking for the first time the name Korak ("Killer" in the language of the Great Apes). Most references to him were as "Korak the Killer".
Korak by Snapper2001 October 30, 2020
Tarzanesque
Tarzanesque by Snapper2001 October 30, 2020
Melodramedy
Not just a cross between Melodrama and Comedy, It's also the darker and moodier equivalent of Dramedy. A lot of Telenovelas nowadays are full of this, and some crank this Up to Eleven.
Edith Gonzalez was playing the snooty Rich bitch Monica on a melodramedy called Corazon Salvaje in 1993.
Melodramedy by Snapper2001 July 17, 2020
George of the Jungle (2016)
The rather very ugly transitional version of George of the Jungle from the second season of the eponymously Canadian television remake.
George of the Jungle (2016) is an ugly transition between the naïve 2007 version and the possible 3D Movie finale version.
George of the Jungle (2016) by Snapper2001 July 17, 2020
Jungle girl
A jungle girl (so-called, but usually adult woman) is an archetype or stock character, often used in popular fiction, of a female adventurer, superhero or even a damsel in distress living in a jungle or rainforest setting.
Jungle girl by Snapper2001 July 17, 2020
Mangani
Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes.
In the invented language, Mangani (meaning "great-ape") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan.
Mangani by Snapper2001 October 1, 2018