Eternal Alice Rondo

Eternal Alice Rondo
Author: Kaishaku
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2006
Genre: Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
ISBN: 9781597961127

Aruto Rirhara is a student who spends his free time reading the book about ALICE, and is even writing his own sequel. After meeting a girl who bears a striking resemblance to his heroine, he is pulled into a world where girls with strange powers and bunny ears battle to recover the true sequel, which has been lost for generations. What Aruto learns is that he has creative powers of his own, and he must use them to recover the lost book.

Key Princess Story

Key Princess Story
Author: Kaishaku
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781597961141

The stalemate of the higher ranking Alice-powered girls finally ends as the top-ranking girl Lidel makes the move. Now, Aruto and his friends must face increasingly skillful girls as they progress in the Alice Royal. All girls keep their troubled past in their heart, and perhaps that's what makes them so strong. And they will do anything to protect their secret. But that's nothing compared to the threats they face when they get too close to figuring out the secret of Never-ending Alice.

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands
Author: Amanda Kennell
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0824896874

Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan's internationally famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo style. In Japan Alice is everywhere--in manga, literature, fine art, live-action film and television shows, anime, video games, clothing, restaurants, and household goods consumed by people of all ages and genders. In Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, Amanda Kennell traverses the breadth of Alice's Japanese media environment, starting in 1899 and continuing through 60s psychedelia and 70s intellectual fads to the present, showing how a set of nineteenth-century British children's books became a vital element in Japanese popular culture. Using Japan's myriad adaptations to investigate how this modern media landscape developed, Kennell reveals how Alice connects different fields of cultural production and builds cohesion out of otherwise disparate media, artists, and consumers. The first sustained examination of Japanese Alice adaptations, her work probes the meaning of Alice in Wonderland as it was adapted by a cast of characters that includes the "father of the Japanese short story," Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; the renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama; and the best-selling manga collective CLAMP. While some may deride adaptive activities as mere copying, the form Alice takes in Japan today clearly reflects domestic considerations and creativity, not the desire to imitate. By engaging with studies of adaptation, literature, film, media, and popular culture, Kennell uses Japan's proliferation of Alices to explore both Alice and the Japanese media environment.

The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition

The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition
Author: Jonathan Clements
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Total Pages: 2372
Release: 2015-02-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1611729092

"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessive—The Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work."—Neil Gaiman Over one thousand new entries . . . over four thousand updates . . . over one million words. . . This third edition of the landmark reference work has six additional years of information on Japanese animation, its practitioners and products, plus incisive thematic entries on anime history and culture. With credits, links, cross-references, and content advisories for parents and libraries. Jonathan Clements has been an editor of Manga Max and a contributing editor of Newtype USA. Helen McCarthy was founding editor of Anime UK and editor of Manga Mania.

Manga: The Complete Guide

Manga: The Complete Guide
Author: Jason Thompson
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0345539443

• Reviews of more than 900 manga series • Ratings from 0 to 4 stars • Guidelines for age-appropriateness • Number of series volumes • Background info on series and artists THE ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR CHOOSING BETWEEN THE BEST AND THE REST! Whether you’re new to the world of manga-style graphic novels or a longtime reader on the lookout for the next hot series, here’s a comprehensive guide to the wide, wonderful world of Japanese comics! • Incisive, full-length reviews of stories and artwork • Titles rated from zero to four stars–skip the clunkers, but don’t miss the hidden gems • Guidelines for age-appropriateness–from strictly mature to kid-friendly • Profiles of the biggest names in manga, including CLAMP, Osamu Tezuka, Rumiko Takahashi, and many others • The facts on the many kinds of manga–know your shôjo from your shônen • An overview of the manga industry and its history • A detailed bibliography and a glossary of manga terms LOOK NO FURTHER, YOU’VE FOUND YOUR IDEAL MANGA COMPANION!

Magic as Metaphor in Anime

Magic as Metaphor in Anime
Author: Dani Cavallaro
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2010-03-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786456205

Since its inception as an art form, anime has engaged with themes, symbols and narrative strategies drawn from the realm of magic. In recent years, the medium has increasingly turned to magic specifically as a metaphor for a wide range of cultural, philosophical and psychological concerns. This book first examines a range of Eastern and Western approaches to magic in anime, addressing magical thinking as an overarching concept which unites numerous titles despite their generic and tonal diversity. It then explores the collusion of anime and magic with reference to specific topics. A close study of cardinal titles is complemented by allusions to ancillary productions in order to situate the medium's fascination with magic within an appropriately broad historical context.

The Anime Encyclopedia

The Anime Encyclopedia
Author: Jonathan Clements
Publisher:
Total Pages: 906
Release: 2006
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

An encyclopedia of Japanese animation and comics made since 1917.

The Dark Shadows Daybook

The Dark Shadows Daybook
Author: Patrick McCray
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-08-08
Genre: Dark shadows (Television program : 1966-1971)
ISBN:

Rondo Award-winning website, The Collinsport Historical Society, presents this wide-ranging collection of essays, insights, and observations from its long-running column, The Dark Shadows Daybook. From the earliest episodes to speculation on the future of the franchise, author Patrick McCray celebrates the grand themes and iconic characters of Dark Shadows with a devout irreverence. Winner of the 2018 Rondo Award for Writer of the Year, Patrick McCray chronicles the unforgettable series by exploring its episodes in articles and asides, all originally written on the anniversary of their filming. With a new introduction by Emmy award-winning humorist, Dana Gould, The Dark Shadows Daybook is affectionate, spontaneous, and refreshingly raucous reading for fans of the series and anyone else looking to learn why Dark Shadows matters.