japan

Provides tutorials for creating manga characters, including detailed lessons on mastering basic features, bodies in motion, and showing characters' emotions.

Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.

Based on the authors own experience, observation, and reason, looks at the military strategies and tactics of seventeenth-century Japanese swordsmen focusing on the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield.

Contains over five hundred color reproductions of woodblock prints by various Japanese artists and publishers covering the history of this art form from its beginnings in the 1680s until 1900.

Presents a guide to drawing Chibi characters in graphic novels.

"Featuring interactive exercises, creative prompts, and step-by-step projects, shows [the reader] how to create and illustrate [one's] own manga characters and stories in just a few ... steps"--Back cover.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating manga characters, including constructing accurate manga figures, rendering facial features and expressions, creating unique characters, and designing color action scenes.

"Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Akari and Rio's father is being transferred overseas. Rio wants to stay in Japan to be with Yuna, but Kazuomi thinks Akari should go live abroad even though they'll be apart. What will Akari ultimately decide?"--Back cover.

"A rupture in the alliance at the Summit of the Five Kages could be the trigger for the Fifth Great Ninja War! Meanwhile, something is causing Shikamaru and his family to drift further and further apart. But Shikamaru has a very powerful card up his sleeve to bring peace to both the world and his family!"--.