Nijikon (二次コン) or nijigen konpurekkusu (二次元コンプレックス), from English "2D complex", is a Japanese term that appeared in the early 1980s used to describe the affective perception that two-dimensional anime, manga, and light novel characters are more attractive visually, physically or emotionally than people from the real world.
Nijikon can be expressed, to some degree, as a genuine sexual orientation in which the person loses interest in real-life people but develop feelings of love and sentimental attachment to two-dimensional characters.12 They are generally attracted to the behavior and exaggerated physical or facial features of the anime/manga art style, which are perceived to be "ideal" human features.
by Snapper2001 April 25, 2021
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Rita Dominic is more than just a savvy actress playing a character, she is also a fabulous Nollybabe businesswoman!
by Snapper2001 November 23, 2023
Get the Nollybabemug. 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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by Snapper2001 December 22, 2023
Get the Pussyfootmug. 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.
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
Get the Emonogatarimug. Sōji Yamakawa (山川惣治) was a Kamishibai artist, Emonogatari maker, and mangaka who lived from 1908 to 1992.
Sōji Yamakawa, a beloved writer-artist, was described as hailing from Koriyama in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture. He was both a Lutheran and is still a far more interesting author than the equally prolific enid blyton.
by Snapper2001 February 22, 2024
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Bomba the Jungle Boy, is described as a boy with brown hair and brown eyes. Even though he was born in the US, he was stranded in the Amazon as a toddler.
by Snapper2001 February 22, 2024
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