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Why are anime girls drawn without pubic hair?
I believe Japan's obscenity laws have some particular rules regarding pubic hair. Also, often hentai artists prefer a hairless body for their particular demographic / fetish / etc.
Up until the mid ...
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Where to submit anime idea?
First of all, I doubt they'd look at any scripts not written in Japanese. Second of all, I'm rather doubtful you'd have much success simply pitching an idea to a studio as a person outside the ...
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What are these color pages for?
These pages are using spot coloring:
This type of printing consists of printing with 1 or more pre-mixed colors (generally 1, 2 or 3 colors at once). Spot printing uses a color system of solid, ...
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Are mangas freeware and shareware?
No?
[...] are they Freeware and Shareware?
First things first, we have some terminology confusion here. Nobody describes anything besides computer software as "freeware" and/or "shareware". Manga ...
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Why does school bullying keep showing up in manga?
Bullying is a persistent problem in Japan. It has its own term called "ijime". The Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has been tracking reported ...
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What phenomenon are at play such that the "Big Four" are limited to four and not a growing list?
I've heard a list of anime referred to as "The Big Four":
The first thing to be aware of is this: the idea of the "Big Four" is localized to the English-speaking / Western (possibly just North ...
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Why is manga typically created with screentones rather than grayscale fills?
These are called Ben-Day dots. Depending on the size and spacing of the dots, you can create different shades using a single colour - or, with a limited colour palette you can produce different shades ...
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How do they serialize manga in Japan?
The information that answers your question is on the Wikipedia entry for Manga.
They describe the general process about how manga is distributed starting at the "Magazine" level:
Magazines
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How does a mangaka get paid?
To answer this question, we need to take in account the several factors that will decide how and how much they are paid:
The number of pages drawn for each issues (20 pages or more).
The regularity ...
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Can doujinshi get anime adaptations? Also can they become "real" Manga if good enough
If by "doujinshi" you mean "self-published manga that parody other published works" (probably the most restrictive definition), the answer is yes. Examples:
Nyoron Churuya-san (a Suzumiya Haruhi no ...
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What phenomenon are at play such that the "Big Four" are limited to four and not a growing list?
As said by a user on Reddit:
The term was made to refer to those three manga because for a few
years (~2004-2009/10) they were absolute juggernauts in sales and
popularity rankings. The term "...
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Can a mangaka continue another mangaka's manga?
Yes, it can. It is usually up to the publisher if they want to pursue continuing a series, depending on who owns the rights (family member tend to have a say in it as well).
Note that for HotD, the ...
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Who generally owns the rights for a manga or anime?
summary (final paragraph):
Like the five previous examples, the mangaka (or writer) shares the copyright. Since this occurred in six of the five works I looked up, I'll assume it to be the "general ...
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Why is there so much nudity in anime and manga?
To start, you're not really going to see full-frontal nudity in anime. If you look at this question, you can read about censorship laws in Japan and about how--through self-censorship as much as ...
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Where to submit anime idea?
An article on Anime News Network titled "How do I get my idea made into an anime?" should be a good read, at least for me it is, which does not pull any punches on delivering the reality of ...
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Why has a new chapter of ‘Nichijou’ been released when the serialization ended in 2015?
The title and the bulk of the question seem to be asking separate questions - the question in the title, why Nichijou is being re-serialized, is relatively easy to answer.
The official answer is: ...
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How are volumes determined in manga?
There is no fixed rule to decide the boundary of a volume of a Manga. It's upto the mangaka and the publisher to decide where a given volume starts or ends. They're generally published arc-wise to ...
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Who decides the usage of furigana in a manga?
Ross Ridge's comment is correct:
I believe it's essentially determined by the media the the manga is original published in. Just like how the content of the manga needs to be age appropriate to for ...
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Can a manga get an anime even if it already has a live action drama?
Whether Takane & Hana will ever receive an anime adaptation is off-topic for this site, since that concerns unannounced future events. However, I will try to address the broader question of ...
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How are manga character polls done?
Short answer: (1) It is in most cases done by postcards attached to the physical magazine. It generally costs ～$3 to cast a vote (magazine+postal cost). These days, apparently there are polls online. ...
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Do Japanese manga magazines have ISSNs?
By all indications, no.
There are a few places I checked. First, while Wikipedia gives the ISSN for magazines such as Shonen Jump but doesn't give it for magazines such as Weekly Shonen Jump or LaLa.
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Why are there no online stores that sell manga in PDF format for the English translation?
As a PC guy that uses spare time to research on DRM, I can tell you that PDF (Portable Document Format) sucks at protecting content in redistribution (in any form including printing, copying, ...
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What is the point of cutting the same manga panel in two?
The primary reason for doing this was to draw the reader's eye up towards the sky, towards the billboard. A side-effect is that it also looks more visually interesting than a single unbroken scene ...
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Law regarding doujinshi
To understand the Japanese law, you need to learn the idea of "Antragsdelikt" (親告罪, shinkokuzai).
This means if copyright holder doesn't complain about the doujinshi, it's not illegal.
Most ...
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Why are manga black and white?
As an artist, I can say that coloring with high quality really requires a LOT of time and effort even for anime art styles. It is nothing like a coloring book, because you really have to make it ...
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Why is manga typically created with screentones rather than grayscale fills?
It's impractical to use a solid colour or shade of grey when printing manga and most other forms of printed media. Doing so would require using a separate ink to render each individual colour or shade....
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Do Japanese manga magazines have ISSNs?
kuwaly's answer is correct; in Japan, ISSN is not generally used. They instead use either 雑誌コード (zasshi CODE, magazine/journal code), JAN (Japanese Article Number) code, or 定期刊行物コード (teikikan koubutsu ...
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Why would a studio intentionally mistranslate the title of "Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun"?
While translating 地縛 (jibaku) literally means "earthbound" (land + bind), the 地縛 in the official Japanese title 地縛少年花子くん refers to 地縛霊 (jibakurei), which means "ghost bound to a ...
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What do these lines mean in manga?
The term you're looking for is (generically) "speed lines". Unsurprisingly, they are typically as a visual indicator that something is speedy.
The terminology is a little silly, though - the ...
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What are Tsurime Eyes and Tareme Eyes? Why do the characters have them?
You can read about them in detail on TVTropes:
Tsurime Eyes:
A particular style of drawing eyes in manga and anime where the outer corners slant upwards, ending in a distinct sharp point, ...
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