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Emonogatari

Emonogatari is a type of novel with a very high proportion of illustrations. Alternatively, it can be said that when the Kamishibai picture-story show is ported to a book, the amount of text in a picture book is increased, or the picture and text of a manga are separated. The boundaries between these genres are extremely vague, and it is not uncommon for the same work to change from a picture story to a manga, or vice versa, during serialization.
Emonogatari was especially popular before and after World War II. In most cases, the same writer is in charge of the painting and the text, and some of the illustrations have balloons, so it is sometimes regarded as a type of manga.

The origin is said to be that the editor of the magazine "Shonen Club" proposed a reading material in the form of "picture-story show" to Soji Yamakawa, a picture-story show writer, and Yamakawa wrote a rough form as a picture-story show to read alone. The first work that can be clearly confirmed is from the 1930s ("Shonen Club" July 1945 issue, picture-story show "Shounen no Yuushi").

Emonogatari writers are often Kamishibai picture-story show writers, illustrators, animators, and cartoonists. Representative writers include Soji Yamakawa and Shigeru Komatsuzaki. Osamu Tezuka, who created the basis for Japanese manga expression, and Hayao Miyazaki, an anime film director, have also left behind works in the form of Emonogatari.

The golden age of Emonogatari was a short period lasting from late 1945 to 1955, but it is said that it has influenced the many "graphic novels" that appeared from 1955 onwards 1.
by Snapper2001 April 26, 2021
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Jungli

Jungli is a Hindi word for North American English terms like Slacker, Get Wild and Something Fishy, which also refers to a person who lives in and dwells through a tropical forest (but particularly a seasonal Indian tropical forest).
A Jungli is a person belonging to the Indian jungle or being characteristic of an inhabitant of such a jungle. Mowgli seems to be the best known example of a fictional character being one.
by Snapper2001 May 11, 2022
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Notsnitsa

In Slavic mythology, notsnitsa (Belarusian: начніца, romanized: načnica,1 Polish: nocnica, płaczka,234 Bulgarian: горска майка, ношно, romanized: gorska majka, nošno, Serbian: шумска маjка, бабице, ноћнице, romanized: šumska majka, babice, noćnice,5 Croatian: mrake, vidine, Slovene: nočnine, mračnine, Ukrainian: нічниця, romanized: nichnytsia,6 Russian: ночница, romanized: nochnitsa7), often referred in plural, is a nightmare spirit or demon that torments people and especially children at night.
Other names for notsnitsa in East Slavic languages include kriksy, plaksy, plachky, plaksivicy, kriksy-varaksy, kriksy-plaksy, night hag, night maiden.7
by Snapper2001 October 1, 2022
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Mazinkaiser

Mazinkaiser is the Mazinger Franchise's version of Shin Getter Robo.
Mazinkaiser first appeared in Super Robot Wars
by Snapper2001 January 4, 2022
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Boxpeuter

Boxpeuter is the Dutch word for a young Toddler.
De Boxpeuter leert bewegen en kijkt met grote ogen rond, houdt van boekjes met stevige kaft en stevig karton.
by Snapper2001 January 5, 2022
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Roroa

Roroa is a colloquial Kenyan word for ‘talking’, which comes from a mixed Swahili-English pidgin called Sheng.
Johnny Weissmuller’s portrayal of Tarzan, itself a distinctive character in his own right, did not do as much Roroa as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s original character of the same name.
by Snapper2001 April 10, 2022
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Go Nagai

Kiyoshi Nagai (永井潔, Nagai Kiyoshi, born September 6, 1945), better known by the pen name Go Nagai (永井 豪, Nagai Gō), is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica.1 He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey, Devilman and Mazinger Z. He is credited with creating the super robot genre and for designing the first mecha robots piloted by a user from within a cockpit with Mazinger Z,2 and for pioneering the magical girl genre with Cutie Honey, the post-apocalyptic manga/anime genre with Violence Jack,3 and the ecchi genre with Harenchi Gakuen.
In 2005, Go Nagai became a Character Design professor at the Osaka University of Arts. He has been a member of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's nominating committee since 2009.
by Snapper2001 October 18, 2021
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