About
What the NMKAC is all about...
The Northampton and Milton Keynes Anime Club was established online on Friday
30th May 2003 at 10 o'clock at night. The development of the NMKAC was helped
by friends, family, people at Northampton High School and Dragon the President
of the LAC London Anime Club who helped get the website online and running.
And of course, the NMKAC members themselves.
The NMKAC has been a success over the last year, welcoming nine new members,
which brings us to fifteen members, some of whom we have actualy met and all
are very nice. Our committee, coincidently, has also grown from two to five
members. We have welcome DeathRose-San as our Advertising Manager, Louise-San
our copyrighter and most recently Lo-Chan, our treasurer. The website has
gone through updates and four layouts.
Now our club aims to give Anime and Manga (Japanese animation and comics i.e.
Pokemon) fans alike the chance to meet and talk together. The NMKAC not only
organise the usual club meetings though. The unique thing about the NMKAC
is that we also go on special trips, such as shopping for animation in centre:mk,
and a more adventurous example would be one of our very first trips-a journey
to Asahiya Shoten bookstore in London. The NMKAC also offers online resources
to all Anime fans.
We hope for the best for the NMKAC! Live on NMKAC!
Manga?
Anime?
So what the heck is Anime or Manga? The BBC Website (www.bbc.co.uk) gives you a few pointers:
Manga makes up 40% of all publications sold in Japan.
Best known for its unique characters, complex storylines and high impact
action sequences, Manga has gained cult status not only in Japan but across
the globe. Check out some staggering facts about this form of Japanese animation.
1) Manga comes from 'man' and 'ga' and means crazy sketches or irresponsible
pictures.
2) Amazingly, Manga makes up 40% of all publications sold in Japan.
3) The word Manga is now in the English dictionary and means Japanese
comics (the word for Japanese animation is 'anime').
4) The biggest selling Manga weekly of all time was Shonen Jump, home
of Dragonball. In only one week it sold over 6 million copies!
5) Manga are the sources for a huge number of hit films, videos and
TV shows, both live action and animated.
6) Rubbery boy-pirate One Piece set the record for the highest first
print run of a manga book at 2.52 million copies.
7) Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy, created over 150,000 pages and
is revered in Japan as 'the God of Manga'.
8) Katsuhiro Otomo adapted his own apocalyptic Akira Manga into the
spectacular 1989 animated movie. Otomo's latest film is Steam Boy, just
opening in Japan.
9) Several of the most successful Manga creators are women, such as
Rumiko Takahashi of Inu Yasha fame, who was ranked as one of the ten wealthiest
people in the country.
10)
Nearly half a million visitors come to the Comiket Manga marketplaces to
buy thousands of 'dojinshi' or self-published fanzines. It's one of the
biggest gatherings of any kind in Japan.
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