Using Posters to Recommend Anime and Mangas in a Cold-Start Scenario
Item cold-start is a classical issue in recommender systems that affects anime and manga recommendations as well. This problem can be framed as follows: how to predict whether a user will like a manga that received few ratings from the community? Content-
Chalumeau, Thomas +6 more
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The JAMS@AX Academic Symposium, an academic conference inside of Anime Expo 2024, brought together scholars, librarians, educators, and enthusiasts from around the world to explore the academic study of anime, manga, and Japanese culture. The Journal of
Emilie Waggoner, Jaclyn Koshofer
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Kawaii Culture’s Influence as Part of Japanese Popular Culture Trends in Turkey
Kawaii is a Japanese adjective meaning cute. The word’s meaning evolved and it has turned into a facet popular culture in the 1970s. It can be regarding anything that is cute, innocent, pure or even ugly.
Ebru Duman
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Heavy Hero or Digital Dummy? Multimodal Player–Avatar Relations in Final Fantasy 7 [PDF]
This article analyses the player-avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player-interviews and fan writing.
Burn, Andrew, Schott, Gareth
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'In This Corner of the World' and the Challenges of Intermedial Adaptation
In This Corner of the World, a Japanese television drama broadcast in summer 2018, is an adaptation of Kōno Fumiyo’s critically acclaimed manga with the same title and also its feature-length anime version directed by Katabuchi Sunao.
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
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Boy with Machine A Deleuzoguattarian Critique of Neon Genesis Evangelion
In this paper, I provide an analysis of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion and the feature film The End of Evangelion through the theory of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as outlined in their seminal work Capitalism and ...
Betty Stojnic
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Materialising Design Fictions: Exploring Music Memorabilia in a Metaverse Environment
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the challenge posed by the high cost and extensive time commitment required for Metaverse platform development by proposing an innovative, process‐centric methodology. Traditional approaches to creating such platforms are hindered by both limited expertise and significant resource investments, exposing substantial ...
M. Lycett +4 more
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Review. Northrop Davis, Manga & Anime go to Hollywood. The Amazing Rapidly Evolving Relationship between Hollywood and Japanese Animation, Manga, Television, and Film. [PDF]
Review. Northrop Davis, Manga & Anime go to Hollywood. The Amazing Rapidly Evolving Relationship between Hollywood and Japanese Animation, Manga, Television, and ...
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State‐of‐the‐art Report in Sketch Processing
Abstract Sketches are a powerful and natural form of communication and are used in numerous systems for modelling, animation, shape retrieval, and editing. Despite their popularity, rough sketches — whether raster or vector, 2D or 3D — are often too complex and imprecise to be used directly and thus need special processing.
Chenxi Liu, Mikhail Bessmeltsev
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“In the name(s) of the moon!”: ‘Japaneseness’ & Reader Identity in Two Translations of Sailor Moon
Manga has become increasingly popular in the United States since the 1990s, and over time, the strategies employed in translating these texts for English-speaking audiences have shifted. As translation practices have changed, so too has the status of the
Morgan Sleeper , Daphne Iskos
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