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EXOTIC SEX-FANTASY MEDIA documentaries @ MIC/Galatos Feb 26

 

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Comic Water @ Comiket in Saturation Heat

Record numbers of 300,000 attend Comiket comic market, on day one of the three day event in Tokyo, the biggest in the world.

The 36 degree humid heat humid and packed crowdedness exasperated the experience for fans. Many of which were in cosplay and sweating profusely. There was special edition, 'Comic Water', which was guzzled in large amounts.

STYLISH COSPLAY IN MANGA MAD MOVIE

One of the many, extremely refined, cosplayers featured in MANGA MAD movie.

ELECTRO TOKYO FUTURO

Will screen Manga Mad - Tokyo Otaku & Tokyo Techno Tribes as a VJ projection with a DJ set @ Favela, Aoyama, Tokyo; July 4th, Fri mid-night till 6 am.

MANGA MAD - TOKYO OTAKU - Doco Film - synopsis

More people read comics (Manga) in Japan than any other country. Comics are its biggest pop culture.

Tokyo is comic capital of the world. Cartoon characters have a ubiquitous presence in advertising and pop media, like a pictogram alphabet, permeating through everything.

Manga is a stylised graphic vernacular with multi genre appeal to all ages and has had far reaching impact on world media. 60% of all animation broadcast is made in Japan.

Adult fans – called otaku – spend up to $5 billion on manga related products annually, much of which is sexually racy.

The fictional world of adult comics in Japan reveal graphically, the shadowy, exotic, fantasy world of collective emotion. Especially, the fetish-like obsession for cuteness, omnipresent throughout all Japanese pop culture: comics, animation, toys, games, fashion, technology.

‘Manga Mad’ illuminates the evolution of the comic boom since WW2, from its early historical roots through to contemporary popularity and evolution into animation. The captivating allure cartoon characters have for adults, fuelled by a vast merchandising industry. 

The mesmerizing appeal of exotic, eros, allegory with extreme fantasy, virtual reality, characters, reveals insightful cultural obsessions pertaining to Japanese society and attitudes about sexuality:

‘Skinship’ eros comics that directly relate to ‘Shunga’ (historical art. The divide between the sexes and otaku anxieties about intimacy. The fixation on ‘Lolita, budding love’ themes. The popularity of ‘Boys Love’, gay stories, for Japanese women.

Akihabara – ‘electric town’ district – is the cybersex mecca of otaku. Comiket, is the world’s biggest comic market, including elaborate ‘cosplay’ performers.

“The narrative of comics and animation are mirrors and windows into Japanese society, it shows what we really think and feel”, says Toshi Ueno, Professor of Sociology at Wako University.

 

"GO FOR FUTURE:FREEDOM COMMUNICATION"

Illuminati Cosplay @ Comiket

Comiket @ Tokyo Big Sight is the biggest event in Japan. Twice a year – summer & winter – over three days, with more than 140,000 fans of manga and anime attend each day.

Comics are ultra-ubiquitious with an omnipresence throughout Japanese culture. The cosplay at Comiket by other-worldly, hero-heroine, participants, captivates feverish scrums of camera-snapping otaku. My film – 'Manga Mad Tokyo Otaku' – explores this pop cult, in enthralling detail.

MANGA MAD – Tokyo Otaku

Trailer (below) for the feature documentary movie about Japanese comics & animation.

Detailed synopsis

Brief synopsis:

More people read comics in Japan than any other country. Comics account for 40% of all total books & magazines published in Japan. Manga Mad gives insight into contemporary Japanese culture through the iconography of its biggest pop culture and explains why comics are not just for children as is illustrated by the ‘otaku’ adult comic & anime scene.

The history of graphic narrative is traced in Japanese art history through to the post WW2 boom as evidenced by the prolific influence of the ‘god of manga’, Walt Disney of Japan, Osamu Tezuka.

There is extensive coverage of electric town, Akihabara,
the virtual reality, manga-anime-mecca for otaku, as well as Comiket Market, the biggest comic and cosplay event in the world.

Throughout the hour doco are insightful interviews with artists, animators, publishers, historians, retailers & otaku fans.

Manga Mad opens the window behind the Japanese mask, to reveal what's really going on in the collective imagination, and explains why this fantasy media is so ubiquitous, mesmerising, virtually uncensored, and is now contagiously popular world wide.