Lecture - Trigun: Creating a Movie from a TV Series

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TRIGUN – Creating a Movie from a TV Series

2.00pm-4.00pm, Friday 8th October 2010
Lecture Theatre (ground floor), Hugh Robson Building
Followed by a reception afterwards.

This will be a brilliant opportunity to talk to two Japanese creatives about the animation industry in Japan as well as the themes behind their works. This creative talk includes screening of one episode of Trigun (25 minutes).

Scotland Loves Anime, runs from the 8th-10th at the GFT and then concludes from the 15-17 October at the Filmhouse Cinema, and will bring prominent Japanese creatives – Satoshi Nishimura (Director of ‘Trigun Badlands Rumble’ and Trigun the TV series) and Shigeru Kitayama (the producer of the two series) to the University of Edinburgh.

This event (in Japanese with professional interpreting) is free and open to the public.

To reserve a place for this talk please email Dr Yoko Sturt at ysturt AT staffmail DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (removing the DOTs and spaces where appropriate) with the subject heading as‘Trigun talk reservation’ by Wednesday, 6 October 2010. (No reservation required for staff and students of Asian Studies)

Venue information:

Address: George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD.
Campus map: http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/buildings/hugh-robson-building

FIVE GIRLS NAMED MOE: The Anime Erotic

1.30pm-3.00pm, Wednesday 13th October 2010
F.21 (first floor), 7GS (Psychology Building)
Followed by a reception afterwards.

Jonathan Clements examines the history and development of erotic animation in Japan: business practises, technology, censorship and market forces. How can we criticise the Japanese for the “perversion” of their media, when much of the industry is now driven by American demand?

Jonathan Clement’s talk will be preceded by a talk from Professor Mizue Sasaki on ‘Rediscovering and Recreating Gendered Words in Japanese’

This event is free and open to the public.

To reserve a place for this talk please email Dr Yoko Sturt ysturt AT staffmail DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (replace DOTs with . and AT with @ where appropriate and remove spaces) with the subject heading as ‘FIVE GIRLS NAMED MOE’ by Wednesday, 6 October 2010. (No reservation required for staff and students of Asian Studies)

Venue information:

Room 1.21 (F.21) is a Lecture Room located on the first floor of the Psychology Building.
Address: 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD.


<a href="http://www.lovesanimation.com/">From Scotland Loves Animation website</a>
 
FIVE GIRLS NAMED MOE: The Anime Erotic
I would be very surprised if the lecturer avoids making any points that genre fans would find controversial. The very fact that the title associates moe with eroticism is bound to rile a few.

Fortunately, Clements is one of the country's most informed writers on this sort of matter.
 
Zin5ki said:
Fortunately, Clements is one of the country's most informed writers on this sort of matter.
Exactly. I'm not worried that the content of the thing will be poor, but I do think that the title is horribly chosen.
 
Pleanty of moe in ero-anime. But ero-anime("hentai") doesn't get exported much, there being two US licensors for it (Rightstuff and Media Blasters).
I suspect some confusion here, never heard of any hentai being made due to US demand. It's the bit of the industry that has next to no export market.
 
But Moe is in effect the eroticism of that entire thing. Is there good moe? Sure, plenty of things are Moe and still good. But let's not kid ourselves about what it is.
 
Eroticism in anime (fanservice) and erotic anime (hentai)are not the same thing.
Moe has more than one fairly distinct meaning.
Moe as in (character trait)-moe, expression of passion for given fetish. Addition of fetish element/quirk turns chara into moe chara.
Or platonic love of 2d character (wether any sexual aspect is present or not does not matter). Wishing them success in their efforts etc.
The former can result in the latter and is often targeted to do so but they are distinct. e.g. Maids all have inherent maid-moe, that does not mean I automaticaly want all of them to live happily ever after (i.e. to be moe in the other sense).
 
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