When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving different sizes of Shikaku. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Shikaku to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Shikaku Pro. You start with easy Shikaku puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Shikaku puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Shikaku Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Shikaku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Shikaku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Shikaku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The goal of Shikaku is to divide the grid into rectangular and square pieces such that each piece contains exactly one number, and that number represents the area of the rectangle. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Shikaku puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books. Shikaku is also known as Divide by Squares, Divide by Box, Number Area.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving different sizes of Minesweeper. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Minesweeper to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Minesweeper Pro. You start with easy Minesweeper puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Minesweeper puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Minesweeper Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Minesweeper puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Minesweeper puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Minesweeper puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The task of Minesweeper is to place mines into empty cells in the grid. The numbers in the grid represent the number of mines in the neighboring cells, including diagonal ones. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Minesweeper puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving Hidoku. You will experience Hidoku 20x20, Hidoku 25x25 and Hidoku 30x30. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Hidoku to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Hidoku Pro. You start with easy Hidoku puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult and colossal Hidoku puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Only 1 Hidoku puzzle per page, with lots of white space for scribbling. Hidoku Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Hidoku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Hidoku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Hidoku puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The goal of Hidoku is to fill the grid with consecutive numbers that connect horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. In every Hidoku puzzle, the smallest and the highest number are presented in the grid. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Hidoku puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other PuzzleBooks.net books. Hidoku is also known as Number Snake.

When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving different sizes of Minesweeper. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Minesweeper to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Minesweeper Pro. You start with easy Minesweeper puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Minesweeper puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Minesweeper Mixed Grids Deluxe - Easy to Hard is a collection of 255 puzzles: 24 easy Minesweeper puzzles per grid size (20x20, 25x25, 30x30), totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Minesweeper puzzles per grid size (20x20, 25x25, 30x30), totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Minesweeper puzzles per grid size (20x20, 25x25, 30x30), totaling 72 hard puzzles 39 extra logic puzzles The task of Minesweeper is to place mines into empty cells in the grid. The numbers in the grid represent the number of mines in the neighboring cells, including diagonal ones. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Minesweeper puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books.

Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media. The Anime Machine defines the visual characteristics of anime and the meanings generated by those specifically “animetic” effects—the multiplanar image, the distributive field of vision, exploded projection, modulation, and other techniques of character animation—through close analysis of major films and television series, studios, animators, and directors, as well as Japanese theories of animation. Lamarre first addresses the technology of anime: the cells on which the images are drawn, the animation stand at which the animator works, the layers of drawings in a frame, the techniques of drawing and blurring lines, how characters are made to move. He then examines foundational works of anime, including the films and television series of Miyazaki Hayao and Anno Hideaki, the multimedia art of Murakami Takashi, and CLAMP’s manga and anime adaptations, to illuminate the profound connections between animators, characters, spectators, and technology. Working at the intersection of the philosophy of technology and the history of thought, Lamarre explores how anime and its related media entail material orientations and demonstrates concretely how the “animetic machine” encourages a specific approach to thinking about technology and opens new ways for understanding our place in the technologized world around us.

Mavo were aJapanese group of artists active in Tokyo from 1923-1925.

🔥Bridges are known as Hashiwokakero. They are also known as Hashi or Chopsticks. In these puzzles, you connect the islands to form a network so that you can reach any island from any other island. The number on each island indicates the number of outgoing bridges. You may only connect islands horizontally or vertically, and you may use one or two bridges to connect islands, but no more than two. Each Bridge puzzle has only one unique solution, which you can find without guessing. ✨Why you will love our Bridge Puzzles: ✔️ 8.5 x 11 inches format ✔️ Premium glossy cover ✔️ 200 puzzles ready to be solved ✔️ Solutions included Kws: bridges puzzles, hashi puzzle book, hashi puzzle, bridges puzzle book, bridge puzzle, bridge puzzle book, japanese number puzzles, japanese puzzles, logic grid puzzles, grid logic puzzles

"Frames ofAnime provides a wonderfully concise and insightful historical overview of Japanese animation; more importantly, Tze-yue G. Hu also gives the reader a much-needed frame of reference--- cultural and historical --- for understanding its development." - Harvey Deneroff, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia "This is a valuable study that transcends most of its predecessors by situating Japanese anime in its cultural context and providing detailed insight into the lives and works of some of Japan's most prominent animators and their struggles to establish it as a legitimate form of cinema and television media. Its authorship by an Asian scholar also conversant with Chinese and Southeast Asian cinema and comic book culture gives it a unique comparative character."-John Clammer, United Nations University Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the "language-medium" of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interdisciplinary research in linguistics and performance theory, shows how dialectical aspects of anime are linked to Japan's unique experience of modernity and its cultural associations in Asia, including its reliance on low-wage outsourcing. Her study also provides English readers with insights on numerous Japanese secondary sources, as well as a number of original illustrations offered by animators and producers she interviewed.

The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of Japan’s detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers the important role of detective fiction in defining the country’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Kawana explores the interactions between the popular genre and broader discourses of modernity, nation, and ethics that circulated at this pivotal moment in Japanese history. The author contrasts Japanese works by Edogawa Ranpo, Unno Juza, Oguri Mushitaro, and others with English-language works by Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie to show how Japanese writers of detective fiction used the genre to disseminate their ideas on some of the most startling aspects of modern life: the growth of urbanization, the protection and violation of privacy, the criminalization of abnormal sexuality, the dehumanization of scientific research, and the horrors of total war. Kawana’s comparative approach reveals how Japanese authors of the genre emphasized the vital social issues that captured the attention of thrill-seeking readers-while eluding the eyes of government censors. Sari Kawana is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.