Comic Con EveryWhere!

         People who are obsessed with Animations or games, once think about the dream they can become a hero or main character in the settings. Yes, like me who are frantically interested in games, animations or comics wanted to be in the anime/comic world. Some people also wanted to use their imagination to expand the story of the original animations or comics, using their personal thoughts and storyline to make spin-offs or side stories of the settings. However, people wonder where they can express these feelings or want to demonstrate their creative talents and love in animation/comics/games. Do not worry!  Comic - Con will be the best location for you to express the love of our entrainments. 

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        Comic - Con or Comic market was originated from Japan in 1975, created by Comic club circle “Labyrinth 迷宮”. At first, it was just a meeting of people who love and show their perspectives of anime or comic, leaving comments of pro and cons. There were only 700 people at first, and individual “doujin” (creative comics from personal original based or comic/anime based) was not common. However, as the time passes, in the 1980s where many classic comics started to boom out and in the 1990s anime like “ Sailor Moon” open the gate of glory to the anime industry. Comic - Con started to boom out, and millions of people started to engaged in this events. It is not a normal event, but a place where you can wear anime - customs, buy people’s doujin and individual software games. At first it was started as small but it became a massive social event. In Japan, every August and December opens Comic - Con, considering the size of the event (opening size) only America’s CES and German’s IFA can be comparable and for the population at more than 1,100,000 join the event in the single location (Tokyo International Display Market). 

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      The boom of Comic- Con does not only came from the shifts of “trend” but also internets, and computer made Comic - Con even more significant. Computers and internet made the vast improvement in the quality of designs and also made improvement in the art style where many people can “learn” and “adjust” the drawing techniques. There were only a few people during the 1980s and 1990s, who can draw attractive drawings  "doujin" for customers to buy. The storylines were immature, and the drawings were not in high-quality compared to "professional" drawers who made profits from comic sales. The internet made people to innovate to draw things “animatic” style with their individual imaginative twists. These impacted to massive people to draw “doujin”, leading Comic- Con into a massively creative and symbolic place for people to show their love. Many people draw doujin based on original comics with different genre flavors such as comedy into love romance.

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      Comic - Con does not only exists in Japan but worldwide. Many countries followed the trend Japanese Comic - Con and started to build their style within their countries. People started to post of their individual comics, doujin, parodies, games, etc. to demonstrate their skill, art, and love on their comics and anime. If you are the one who love on comic/anime world, Comic - Con is a great place to interact. 

What are Light Novels?

         Light novels (does not mean the novels are light) are Japanese versions of the novel. Although my blogs focused on more on games, animations and comic, the light novel plays a significant role Japanese Anime and Comic. There are lots of different Novels exists with different genre and style. However, as light novel started from Japan, it shows the difference from normal novels we read. 

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          Light novels, compare to other novels, have detailed illustrations that remind of the Japanese comics and anime. Novels have an illustration, but light novel have illustration where we can see as “Japanese” style. This is mainly because light novels use as the basis for making animation or comics. Similar to every other famous product like Superman (where the comics were original), many famous Japanese Light Novel were also used to make Japanese anime. After 2000, light novel expanded and changed their illustration from normal to a Japanese “comic” illustration to attract the audience, creating their unique individual brand compare to normal novels. 

        These light novel also created a boom in the animation industry where Japanese animation (novel based) became the major product in the market. Normally, companies foresee profits from creating Japanese animation based on the Light Novel. Most of the Light novels used on the Japanese animation became very successful which able to sell 2 or 3 times more books than before. Simply, the animation is a process of “commercial” for these light novels to be very successful. 

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          However, these booms do not always happen because the popularity of light novel can be degraded in a worst way after the end of an animation. Most of the time, animation company do not follow the original Light Novel plots or background that mess things up commonly. Even though light novels have the great storyline, the animation does not always successfully adapt these features. The failure of adapting positive features led to a huge decrease on both animation and Light novels. Because light novels rely on commercial aspects from animation, the failure of animation also impact on the margin of light novels. This is the main reason many light novel authors refused to make light novels turn into animation because failure created a huge impact than success, gambling for greater success or failure. 

         These days light novel uses lots of sexuality aspects within the story line. Many of the novel light target on young people. Many famous light novels, receiving overwhelming popularity, highlights on the parts where sexuality feature may happen. The main reason is that as the industries are getting bigger more competition happens within the light novel market. Sexuality highlights creates a better eye attraction from the audience compare to the ones who do not. Illustration takes place in this section, where sexual illustration may be in the cover of the novel or inside the novel. Many people criticize these features because rather than focusing on the storyline, authors highlight too much on the sexual features, calling them “light novels are Sexual novel.”