Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time, she has to pass. Luckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is there to help. Join them in the pages of The Manga Guide to Electricity as Rereko examines everyday electrical devices like flashlights, heaters, and circuit breakers, and learns the meaning of abstract concepts like voltage, potential, current, resistance, conductivity, and electrostatic force. The real-world examples that you'll find in The Manga Guide to Electricity will teach you: –What electricity is, how it works, how it's created, and how it can be used –The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance (Ohm's law) –Key electrical concepts like inductance and capacitance –How complicated components like transformers, semiconductors, diodes, and transistors work –How electricity produces heat and the relationship between current and magnetic fields If thinking about how electricity works really fries your brain, let The Manga Guide to Electricity teach you all things electrical in a shockingly fun way.

Your complete course to drawing figures in the manga style.Bring character, expression and motion to your figures and fill them with the energy and life that is core to the exciting manga style. Covering faces, expression and lighting, as well as anatomy and proportion, professional manga artist Samantha Gorel leads you through the techniques that will bring your characters bursting into life.

Popular tutor and artist Samantha Gorel leads you through the techniques that will bring your manga characters bursting into life. The big book to start you drawing manga-style. A fantastic book that is absolutely packed with clear information and instructions on drawing figures in the manga style, whether you're a seasoned comic artist or just picking up a pencil for the first time. This book takes a practical approach to cover a huge field. Working from the absolute basics through drawing, inking and leading on to multiple different coloring media, it provides a complete course in manga figures. START YOUR MANGA DRAWING JOURNEY STEP BY STEP - More than 20 step-by-step exercises for all types of manga characters ALL TYPES OF MANGA CHARACTERS COVERED - Includes chibis and kemonomimi TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING YOUR OWN UNIQUE STYLE - Clear, simple instructions backed-up with hints, tips and detail LEARN HOW TO USE DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEDIA FOR MANGA - Colored markers, coloured pencils, watercolour and acrylic paints, plus lots more! POPULAR MANGA ARTIST AND TUTOR - 8k under GinmaArt (IG), course leader

Ayumi is a world-class shogi (Japanese chess) player who can’t be beaten—that is, until she loses to a powerful computer called the Shooting Star. Ayumi vows to find out everything she can about her new nemesis. Lucky for her, Yuu Kano, the genius programmer behind the Shooting Star, is willing to teach her all about the inner workings of the microprocessor—the “brain” inside all computers, phones, and gadgets. Follow along with Ayumi in The Manga Guide to Microprocessors and you’ll learn about: -How the CPU processes information and makes decision -How computers perform arithmetic operations and store information -logic gates and how they’re used in integrated circuits -the Key components of modern computers, including registers, GPUs, and RAM -Assembly language and how it differs from high-level programming languages Whether you’re a computer science student or just want to understand the power of microprocessors, you’ll find what you need to know in The Manga Guide to Microprocessors.

Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye. In The Manga Guide to Calculus, you'll follow along with Noriko as she learns that calculus is more than just a class designed to weed out would-be science majors. You'll see that calculus is a useful way to understand the patterns in physics, economics, and the world around us, with help from real-world examples like probability, supply and demand curves, the economics of pollution, and the density of Shochu (a Japanese liquor). Mr. Seki teaches Noriko how to: –Use differentiation to understand a function's rate of change –Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus, and grasp the relationship between a function's derivative and its integral –Integrate and differentiate trigonometric and other complicated functions –Use multivariate calculus and partial differentiation to deal with tricky functions –Use Taylor Expansions to accurately imitate difficult functions with polynomials Whether you're struggling through a calculus course for the first time or you just need a painless refresher, you'll find what you're looking for in The Manga Guide to Calculus. This EduManga book is a translation from a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan.

Copyright date: 2007. Originally published: 2008.

Drawing the manga way never goes out of fashion, as this brand new how-to title will demonstrate. As popular as when it first appeared in the 1950s, manga offers adults and older kids endless possibilities for creating worlds of their own. This colorful book explains the tools needed, the different manga styles, the use of perspective in figures, and shows how to create different poses, how to convey emotion, and how to develop different characters and the different styles that can be adopted within the various character types.

Provides instructions on digitally creating manga characters, including explanations of the latest Photoshop software and digital tools, digital coloring issues, and information about inking and shading.

A pocket guide to help you master manga - the exciting genre of Japanese comic-book art.

A comprehensive practical guide to digital manga and anime, suitable for both complete beginners and experienced digital artists. An informative introduction covers all the equipment you will need, with step-by-step guides to using the tools of Adobe Photoshop to create different effects. It also covers the translation of manga characters to the screen in the creation of anime, including the software you will need, pre-production and animation.