Word: manga
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...works as Seigel and Shuster's Superman character. Thanks to Pekar's obsessive self-examination and what he calls his "trick" memory of near perfect recall, The Quitter takes its place as a top example of the New World Experience in graphic literature (see also the outstanding Four Immigrants Manga...
Apocalypse, pow! The dystopic future (is there any other kind?) came to animation with Otomo's film version of his manga series--and, presto, haute anime proclaimed itself to the world. This psychedelic eye chart is set in 2019, the same year as Blade Runner, and paints its Neo-Tokyo with even denser splashes of noir on neon. The mix of outlaw attitude and brain-breaking speculation may convince you that the Wachowskis were channeling Akira when they wrote The Matrix. The special-edition DVD restores the original film in all its gaudio-visual splendor...
...able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight-and the wearer's-with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain to the muscle generates a detectable electrical pulse on the skin...
...able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight - and the wearer's - with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain to the muscle generates a detectable electrical pulse on the skin...
...names of the 20,000 fish, dolphins and penguins within, or diagrams of their anatomies. Instead, all the exhausted office worker needs to do is look at the pretty creatures swimming by. Even the adjacent roller coaster betrays a generation bias, drawing inspiration from Galaxy Express 999, a 1970s manga that Japanese adults remember nostalgically but not a cartoon their children would watch. The Epson Aqua Stadium is generally open from noon until 10 p.m. nightly?long after the little ones...