Make your dream of drawing Japanese-style manga a reality with Manga Academy! This book, loaded with Chihiro Howe's delightfully simple techniques, teaches all you need to know to get started creating your own manga. Learn tips for selecting the best materials and tools, how to design manga characters, coloring and inking techniques, how to tell a compelling story, and much more. Features 10 step-by-step full manga character demonstrations, as well as exciting extras like Japanese lessons!

School is now in session! Learn the art of drawing manga with YouTube sensation and manga expert Mei Yu. In Manga Drawing School, Mei guides you through every artwork step by step, from drawing simple faces and hairstyles to striking poses and action-packed fantasy scenes. You'll discover over 50 lessons that will help you master the skills you need to create manga characters and scenes that are packed with personality. Starting with the basics – from drawing the right lines and layering colour to storyboarding and using speech bubbles – you'll build your skills chapter by chapter with lessons on expressions, hands and feet, outfits, and even fantasy characters. Try your hand at different manga styles including chibi, shonen, and chibi art, and take your art to the next level with Mei's tips and masterclasses. With Mei's help and encouragement, you'll create characters that are packed with personality, whatever your age or skill level. So what are you waiting for? Let's get started!

This book closely examines the ways in which many popular, internationally-published Japanese young adult manga graphic novel titles frame instances of K-12 school-situated violence and bullying. Manga is a Japanese literary medium that has grown worldwide as an increasingly visible fixture of young adults' recreational reading habits. The author uncovers the medium's most prevalent patterns of defining, depicting, and discussing school-situated violence and bullying. Through the lens of socio-cultural media frame analysis, he explores what these patterns might indicate about young adults' preexisting views and beliefs about occurrences of violence and bullying within their own school environments. This in-depth investigation of manga literature provides important information pertaining to the pedagogies and practices of K-12 teachers and school administrators, as well as detailed advice for parents of young adult manga fans.

Draw Modern Looks! Expansion on the "Drawing Clothes" and "Cool Looks" chapters of Shojo Fashion Manga Art School, this title shows beginning and intermediate artists how to dress and accessorize their shojo characters in stylish clothes and accessories to fit any occasion. Readers find modern looks and fashions for all the classic shojo graphic novel themes such as: • high school romances • complex dramas • stories about friendship and sweet comedies Starting with basics like materials (primarily pencil and ink), color, movement, lines and shading, the book covers casual styles, school clothes, work attire, glamorous fancy dress and seasonal/situational looks. Loaded with techniques and tips from an exciting young artist and writer with a fresh style, this book includes great step-by-step instruction from initial lines to black-and white inked illustration to finished art in color.

Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy Workbook provides an interactive introduction to creating your own unique characters, allowing beginning artists to practice directly inside the book with approachable step-by-step lessons.

In the land of Glengard, the realm's 666th Demon King, Fienalia Glengard Flamveil...is bored. With no challenges to excite her and all of humanity long since subjugated, she's off to find a new world--any world!--to conquer...and it just so happens that Earth is next on the hit list! But when "Ena-sama" meets Kento Sugitani, an aspiring manga artist, it seems she might have found a new hobby more interesting than world domination. What a demon lord to do but enroll in a manga school herself?!

While Ena-sama may have found a new pastime learning to become a manga artist, Kento's life has grown considerably more difficult. Keeping a Demon King preoccupied to distract her from destroying the world is no small chore, after all, and now a "hero" has shown up ready to take his head to get to Glengard's absentee dictator?? Despite his best efforts to keep these mortal enemies apart, it seems that a meeting is inevitable, but is Kento even remotely prepared for what fate has lined up for him next...?

Yuri Ho wanted nothing but a peaceful life, but now a future as a military commander and provincial ruler seems unavoidable. Following his humiliation of a political rival to ensure his father would become the head of the Ho family, it’s assumed that the father is merely keeping the seat warm for his son. Now at just ten years old, Yuri has to prepare himself for his impending great responsibilities by attending the Knight Academy—a prestigious school where anyone seeking to serve as a military officer in the Shiyalta Kingdom must train. As Yuri attempts to navigate the academy’s odd systems and strange traditions, he soon encounters the kingdom’s first princess, Carol Flue Shaltl. Strong-willed and principled, she takes offense to Yuri’s apathy and makes herself his rival, much to his dismay. But when Yuri is center of attention in a school of would-be warriors, his run-in with Princess Carol is far from his last violent encounter.

Teens love it. Parents hate it. Librarians are confused by it; and patrons are demanding it. Libraries have begun purchasing both manga and anime, particularly for their teen collections. But the sheer number of titles available can be overwhelming, not to mention the diversity and quirky cultural conventions. In order to build a collection, it is important to understand the media and its cultural nuances. Many librarians have been left adrift, struggling to understand this unique medium while trying to meet patron demands as well as protests. This book gives the novice background information necessary to feel confident in selecting, working with, and advocating for manga and anime collections; and it offers more experienced librarians some fresh insights and ideas for programming and collections. Teens love it. Parents hate it. Librarians are confused by it; and patrons are demanding it. Libraries have begun purchasing both manga and anime, particularly for their teen collections. But the sheer number of titles available can be overwhelming, not to mention the diversity and quirky cultural conventions. In order to build a collection, it is important to understand the media and its cultural nuances. Many librarians have been left adrift, struggling to understand this unique medium while trying to meet patron demands as well as protests. This book gives the novice background information necessary to feel confident in selecting, working with, and advocating for manga and anime collections; and it offers more experienced librarians some fresh insights and ideas for programming and collections. In 2003 the manga (Japanese comics) market was the fastest growing area of pop culture, with 75-100% growth to an estimated market size of $100 million retail. The growth has continued with a 40-50% sales increase in bookstores in recent years. Teens especially love this highly visual, emotionally charged and action-packed media imported from Japan, and its sister media, anime (Japanese animation); and libraries have begun purchasing both. Chock full of checklists and sidebars highlighting key points, this book includes: a brief history of anime and manga in Japan and in the West; a guide to visual styles and cues; a discussion of common themes and genres unique to manga and anime; their intended audiences; cultural differences in format and content; multicultural trends that manga and anime readers embrace and represent; and programming and event ideas. It also includes genre breakdowns and annotated lists of recommended titles, with a focus on the best titles in print and readily available, particularly those appropriate to preteen and teen readers. Classic and benchmark titles are also mentioned as appropriate. A glossary and a list of frequently asked questions complete the volume.