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American executives seeking insight into Japanese business culture should pick up a comic book. The thick volumes of cartoons called manga are highly popular among the office-worker class known as salarymen. While manga have long dealt with crime and romance, one of the best-selling topics now is business...
...Japan's manga culture is awash with sexual fluidity and deviance but few of those grinning gross-out stories have made it to the big screen. One notable exception is 1999's Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers), a feature-film by Akihiko Shiota. Two 17-year-olds, Takuya (Kenji Mizuhashi) and Satsuki (Tsugumi), start a conventional romance but Takuya's needs are anything but. First he tells Satsuki to treat him like a dog. Then unbeknown to her, he smells her socks, photographs her legs (how Japanese cinema loves voyeuristic kink) and wants to kiss her feet and suck her toes...
...subject and the mediocrity of assembled talent. Gradually, the teal and purple hibiscuses on his Hawaiian aloha shirt descend lower behind his gargantuan desk. The show is a bore, and Beat's not afraid to admit it. Who do you think the TV audience identifies with: the kimono-clad manga artist tendentiously making a point about how Japan isn't ready to host the World Cup, or Beat and his flagrant disdain for taking anything too seriously? Beat is in on the joke. And so is the rest of Japan...
...pleased that you covered a topic near and dear to me. But the sad truth is that anime will never be fully appreciated in countries where limited imaginations restrict animation to a children's medium. Some of the best storytelling in the world continues to go unrecognized. In Japan, manga (graphic novels) and anime have long been recognized as important facets of modern Japanese culture. Now if only we could get better translations of the Japanese tales into other languages so that they are truer to the original stories. LISA HANNABACH Ichikawa, Japan...
...CHARA IS A CARTOON CHARACTER. CB, FROM THE JAPANESE WORD FOR SMALL, SUGGESTS CHILD'S BODY; IT IS OFTEN USED AS A PREFIX. KAMI IS A GOD OR GODDESS. CAN CAN BUNNY IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF A MANGA SERIES. MECHA REFERS TO ANY KIND OF MECHANIZED HARDWARE--A GUN, A ROBOT, A SPACESHIP. SD MEANS SUPER DEFORMED. KAIJU IS A MONSTER. OAV STANDS FOR ORIGINAL ANIME VIDEO (ONE NOT MADE FOR THEATERS OR TV). OTAKU IS AN OBSESSIVE FAN OR COLLECTOR--AN ANIMANIAC. AN OST IS AN ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK...