OTAKU KAIDAN

KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.
Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.



Cover by Aya Kato (www.ayakato.net)


Table of Contents :
Exhibition: Xenia Stan (RO), Vladimir Taroi (RO) // Interview: Vasile Alboiu (RO) // Article: Kaidan: Traditional Japanese Ghost Tales and Japanese Horror Film. Scott David Foutz (USA) // Kaidan Manga: Kazuo Umezu (JP), Hideshi Hino (JP), Junji Ito (JP) // Kaidan Anime // Kaidan Film: www.sarudama.com (USA) // Kaidan Games: LEVEL (RO) // Aya Kato@115: www.115.ro (RO) // Illustrations: Heliana (RO), Saddo (RO), Aya Kato (JP), Yoskay Yamamoto (JP), Dermot Reddan (USA), The Horror (UK), Yan Wei (CN), More Than a Friend (CAN), Veronica Solomon (RO), Dave MacDowell (USA), Nikiforov Anton (RU), Arisu (PT), Nishi (JP), Mihai Marcu (RO), Sam Gilbey (UK) // Toys: Review Custom Toyz. Vera, Ruxi, Alexandra (RO) // Interview: Liste Noire (RO) // Article: Lolita – Extraordinary Street Fashion, Kyshah Hell (USA), fotos: Marianne Williams (USA) // Article: Hayo Miyazaki (part II). Veronica Solomon (RO) // Interview: Interview with Ryosuke Tei, creative director of Furi Furi (JP) // Return by Inkamon (RO) // Masca by Nicolae Drob (RO) // What have you done to tentoumushi? by Akira, Mimi (RO) // Cain and Abel by Asra, Ruxi (RO) // Article:
Japanese Ghosts. Tim Screech (UK) // Kaidan Music: ghOst (UK), Ghost (USA), Ghost of a Flea (CA), Ghost Band (USA), Ghostfog (DE) Jigoku Nohara (BE), Kaidan Eiga (IT), ManiFest (DE), Smm (RO), Likantropika (AD), Makunouchi Bento (RO).



OTAKU CREATURES





Table of Contents created by: Mihai Marcu aka mistik

CREATURES ATTACK!

CODE RED – creatures are attacking from allover!

The attack isn’t coming from the outer space. The revue Otaku Magazine provides protection and free crossing for all the creatures INVADING Ro, Japan, Germany, Argentina, France, U.S.A., Australia, Spain, The Netherlands, UK etc. Regardless the continent or origin country, all creatures are permitted to pass freely. No matter if they have several eyes or only one; tentacles, legs, cilia or hairy hands with claws, we should already know them by name. They are looked for by the collectors, designers, otakus and by other groupies who lurk them in the street, in stores, on the shelves and in catalogues and magazines specialized in the reproduction, taming and raising of characters.
Furthermore, right now we are the only ones to ensure within a magazine’s pages an existence unpolluted by advertising and spam, cancer-like for any kind of creature, human or not.



Invited artists of CREATURES Issue:

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS:
Friendswithyou (USA), Jeremyville (AUS), Daniel & Geo Fuchs (GER), Doma Collective (AR), C215 crew (FR), Other (CAN), William Cooney (JP), David Horvath (USA), Touma (JP), Joe Ledbetter (USA), rthq.com (UK), Shin Tanaka (JP), Remember the Little Guy (UK), Charuca (ESP), Tesha from The Cute Institute (CAN), SupaKitch (FR) , Chisami Tsuchiya (JP), Detrus (USA), Skaffa (NL).

NATIONAL ARTISTS:
Matei APOSTOLESCU(beaucupezero), Veronica SOLOMON (Inkamon), Remus BREZEANU(Between), Timotei Nicolae DROB (Nae), Mihai MARCU (Mistik), Xenia STAN (Xiusha), Alexandra Gabriela UJEUCA (Uje), Saddo, Heliana, Boti, Pikaciuka, videorgy.tv , Sidekicks, Gyorfi ZORAN, Radu POPESCU, Vladimir TAROI, Szolt , Cristi MAGUREANU.

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Otaku MAG //LOVE & TECHNOLOGY





Cover and table of content created by: Veronica Solomon aka inkamon

CONTENT: New stuff (by Odeena) // Otaku Generation part two(by Volker Grassmuck ) // The Eroticization of Technology (by Veronica Solomon // Introduction to Cyberpunk (by Adrian Oproiu) // Recommendations (Anime, movies, manga, books, games, music) // The Paranoia first part (Cyberpunk story by Kenji Siratori) // Ilustations, (Inkamon and Tudor Avramut – RO, Ippei Gyoubu – JP, Matei Apostolescu – RO, Rose Frith – SUA, Japi Honoo – IT, La Petite Grenouille – RO) // Paper Toys (Readymech - SUA) // Robot Carnival (anime review by Between) // STAS (Megatron) // Interview (Interview width Yoshiki Sakurai) // Comic Strip Experimental (Dan Pintea, MiMi, Nae ) // Manga made in ro (Between, Asra, Kaeru) // Interview Shido (Interview with Prof. Mrs. Beatrice Budea) // Tops...
Otaku MAG // PILOT





Cover and table of content created by: Veronica Solomon aka inkamon

The first issue features ARTICLES (Genshiken-esque, Atrocitati manga, Otaku Generation), REVIEWS (Crashomon), MOVIE (the most expected Asian movies in 2006), FASHION (Shubakiller, Costin George Benescu, Maria Guta, Rozalb de Mura, Karakiri, Vlad Gabriela-Maria, Anca Benera), DESIGN (Alexe Popescu), TOYS (Costin George Benescu, Reniform, Ciubi), INTERVIEWS (Tujico Noriko), ILLUSTRATIONS (Asra, Mistik, Reniform, Tehas, Hisshi, Uje), VIDEO GAMES (The New Super Mario Bros), MANGA MADE IN RO (Kaeru, Between, Asra ), OTAKU CULTURE INFLUENCE (Inkamon, Xiusha), MANGA-KA PROFILE (Tsutomu Nihei).

Serious play represents a feature of any otaku's activity. Basically you play, but you do it with the greatest dedication, seriousness and interest. We don't want to be the prisoners of the industries that bet on our ability as playful mammals, but we desire to know them and explore their limits. Otaku PLAY explores the universe of players and play of all kinds. How and when you play. What you learn while playing and where do you risk arriving when you remain blocked within the same play.

OBS: This issue is also opened to the audio/video artists, who are invited t submit: AMVs, animations, short movies, experimental movies, motion graphics, VJ-ing focused on the theme presented above.

DEADLINE: September 6, 2008

ILLUSTRATION AND COMICS

Dimensions: 150x220mm-5mm (bleed)
Formats: TIF, PNG, PSD, JPG, PDF
Systems: CMYK and/or GRAYSCALE
Resolution: 300 DPI
Maximum number of illustrations accepted: 2
Maximum number accepted of pages for comics (only grayscale): 16

AUDIO-VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

Format: 720x576 avi or quicktime format, dv-pal compression and sound of 48kHz
Maximum duration accepted (amv, animation, experimental movie, motion graphics, VJ-ing): 3:30 min
Maximum duration accepted (documentary): 15 min
Maximum number of video productions accepted: 2
IMPORTANT ! Subbed AMVs are not allowed and therefore they will be excluded from selection.

AUDIO PRODUCTIONS

Format: mp3
Audio quality: 192 kbps, 48 kHz
Maximum duration accepted: 6 min
Maximum number of audio productions accepted: 2

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