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Otaku - General

Otaku : Japanese term for people with obsessive interests , animation (anime & manga are the common blackberries ) this term was Introduced in 1983 by Akio Nakamori in the essay : Manga Burikko . It's negativity stems from the stereotypical view of otaku two to the 1989 " murder otaku " ( Tstutomu Miyazaki ) . The Otaku subculture is used as central themes in lot of manga and anime works and academic research. 1980 's was the period in Which the otaku subculture started as changing in social Mentalities and social outcasts . In 2005 Nomura Research Institute otaku divided in different categories , calculating size and market impact . From this research 12 different groups wore classified .

" Of These groups, comics was the largest , with 350,000 individuals and ¥ 83 billion market stairs. Idol otaku were the next largest group , with 280,000 individuals and ¥ 61 billion. Travel otaku with 250,000 individuals and ¥ 81 billion. PC otaku with 190,000 individuals and ¥ 36 billion. Video game otaku with 160,000 individuals and ¥ 21 billion. Car otaku with 140,000 individuals and ¥ 54 billion. Animation ( anime ) otaku with 110,000 individuals and ¥ 20 billion. The remaining five categories including Mobile IT equipment otaku , with 70,000 individuals and ¥ 8 billion , Audio -visual equipment otaku , with 60,000 individuals and ¥ 12 billion ; otaku room , with 50,000 individuals and ¥ 18 billion ; otaku fashion , with 40,000 individuals and ¥ 13 billion , and railway otaku , with 20,000 individuals and ¥ 4 billion " ( # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku Types_and_classification_of_Japanese_otaku )

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I LOVE JAPAN

Bakuman-MANGA

Bakuman
Drawings:Takeshi Obata
Story:Tsugumi Ohba
Volumes: 20
Genre:Comedy,School,Slice of Life
Italian Publisher: Planet Manga (Panini Comics)
The story is about two boys at their last year of middle school,Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi, the first a skilled draftman winner of several awards for his designs, the second is a skilled writer who won awards for  his stories and an excellent student.Takagi noticing the design ability Mashiro has and invites him to join forces to become mangaka (Manga Artists). On the other hand we have Azuki , a beautiful girl who's dream is to becoma an seiyu( voce actress).
A manga of stuggle, perseverance and dreams, a manga that hypnotizes you fom the first page to the last one.  The drawings rappresents at the best the story, Ohba and Obata made another great manga ( same authors of Death Note). an exciting and overwhelming manga.
When i started this manga i was behind, i started the first volume when the 15th volume was being issued. the first page brought me in this world of passion and perseverance, curious of going on with the story i ended up reading 15 voluems in two weeks. The biggest mistake i could do. Once i reached the 15th volume i discovered i had to wait 2 months for the next volume to come out.

Bakuman was 7th bestselling manga in 2011 and 10th in 1012

Kyoto in autumn

KAWAII ONE PIECE

Confessions-MOVIE

Confessions (Kokuhaku)

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima

Original texts: Kanae Minato

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Rating: 7.7 / 10 (IMDb)

Yuko Moriguchi is an elementary school teacher. Decided to abandon the chair, she makes ​​her  last speech to the classe.She explains the motivation that led her to this decisione. The death of her daughter Manami, which took place inside the school. Before leaving she decides to teach one last lesson to her students: the importance of life. She reveals an astonishing fact, she  found out who was to kill his daughter. these killers  are students of her own class and decided to call them "student A" and "B student" and take revenge.

The film shooting is very pleasant. fully reflects the mood of the book is taken from : "Confessions" (Kanae Minato). The paste of the story is slow as you would expect from a drama movie. A movie  that presents various acts of psychological strength.

The movie drags you in the story feeling compassion for the teacher, this compassion vanishes with her revenge.

Norwegian Wood Tokyo Blues - book

Norwegian Wood 
Tokyo blues
(Noruwei no mori)

Author: Haruki Murakami

Genre: novel                   

Rating: 4.2 / 5 (Goodreads)

The novel is a long flashback, narrated in first person by the protagonist Toru Watanabe. on a plane landing  in Hamburg at the sound of the  “Norwegian Wood” (the Beatles). He recalls a changing experience that  left an indelible mark in his youth. After the suicide of his best friend Kizuki, Toru meets Naoko Watanabe, Kizuki’s  ex-girlfriend . this meeting will lead to complicated love stories.

a very exciting book, once started is difficult leaving it. A complicated web of love and a difficult decision to make. the story of a boy who finds himself in a delicate situation. a story of a first true tragic love.

introdction

I started this blog for a simple reason , my passion for Japan. in this blog I will write all the various aspects of Japan that most fascinates me . I got closer to Japanese culture in the simplest of ways , manga . I bought my first manga in the ' summer of 2012, the manga was SKET DANCE Kenta Shinohara . when I returned to Turin, I discovered a comic here did not know existed . from that point I started reading the various series , I started looking at various souls. I did research to learn as much as possible . I recovered from this research to other Japanese art forms that have fascinated me so much. with the passage of time I got closer and closer to Japan. this has become my greatest passion. this is also seen upon entering my room where I have a huge Japanese flag . by the time I discovered new aspects until you find the art of the sword. from there I started to really get close to Japanese culture . other thing that fascinated me is very Japanese cuisine . after a sudden loss I had a " spiritual crisis " by the time I explored the various religions that populate our world until I found what I was looking just in Japan. Buddhism. But I do not speak of Buddhism that is found in India and in Tibet but I speak of Zen Buddhism .

From today I decided to dedicate myself to write a blog where I can share my passion with the web .