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Shōnen

Shōnen is a form of anime that is geared towards a teen and preteen male audience.  It’s often categorized by male bonding and a lot of action.  Examples of Shōnen include Full Metal Alchemist and Yu-Gi-Oh.  Shōnen is often confused with Seinen Anime, which we’ll talk about in the next paragraph.

Seinen

Seinen is similar to Shōnen except that it’s geared more towards men of college age or even older.  Like Shōnen, it’s also meant for males but has a more mature theme and is often considered more violent.  Examples include Hellsing and Elfen Lied.  It’s interesting to note that most people in the west consider Shōnen and Seinen to be practically the same thing. 

Shojo

Anime isn’t all about dueling battle monsters or mystic card games.  In other words it’s not just for males.  What Shōnen anime is for men,  Shojo anime is for girls, usually up to age 20 or so.  Shojo isn’t as popular in the West as Shōnen but does have a fan base here.  Examples of popular Shojo include: Card Captor Sakura and of course, Sailor Moon.

Josei

Josei anime is for women in their late teens and well into adulthood.  They have a tendency to be more realistic and the drawing style tends to shy away from the large eyes made popular by most anime.  An interesting fact is that very little Josei makes it to the screen, usually staying between the pages of manga or japanese comic books.  However, a few notable examples are Paradise Kiss and Honey and Clover.

Kodomo

Kodomo is created for children of both sexes and is used to tell stories showing good little boys and girls how to be good little boys and girls so that they can grow up to be good men and women.  These stories are often moralistic and abstractly teach children to be considerate to others.  Good examples of this demographic include Astro Boy and the incredibly popular Pokemon.

Well, there you have it.  Keep in mind that this is not a definitive list of anime genres.  In fact, this article probably covers less that one percent of all the types of anime you can find, much of it not exactly for the general public.  But that’s for another article, for another author to write.

Other then going to pledge sites I have found another way to try to bring Naruto and some of your favorite shows back on Cartoon Network. Although it may not work, it still worth a try if all of you try to help.

First just go to www.cartoonnetwork.com then go to help! It’s at the bottom of the screen, then click TV shows, then click on How to request a show? Then follow on from there.

Alternatively you can just skip right to Feedback.

Either way just make sure your there and fill out the form, also make sure the questions/comments are really convincing. Please don’t post any rants, we don’t want Naruto by force! Just make sure its convincing! If all else fails I’ll keep an eye on other ways to get our favorite shows back! If you have any questions please comment below. Bye!

I can’t really say what my favorite work of art is. My favorite piece of music is Beethoven’s ninth symphony. My favorite novel is The Count of Monte Cristo. But, it feels weird to compare Beethoven’s ninth to The Count of Monte Cristo. To me, it makes little sense since they are completely different forms of art. It is like comparing apples to oranges, to take a clichéd saying.

So, I might as well talk about my favorite anime series, Cowboy Bebop. I can’t say whether I like this series more than Beethoven’s ninth since, as I have previously mentioned, it makes little sense to compare those two. But, I can say that I like Cowboy Bebop more than any other anime series that I have seen, and I have seen quite a lot. Basically, it takes place in the future when human beings have colonized other planets and bounty hunting is legal everywhere, to combat rampant crime. It tells the story of a group of bounty hunters and their attempts to catch bounties.

I got in touch with it when it was recommended to me by a friend. I decided to watch the whole series, though the first time I watched it, it did not leave too much of an impression. I liked it, but I didn’t think it was amazing. Recently, I watched it a second time and now, I can truly say that it is amazing, better than anything else that I have seen. The music, story, character development, art, everything is amazing about it. I decided to buy all the soundtracks of the series because I liked the music so much, and the music is definitely one of the most important elements of the series. Although I am a huge fan of the series, I would not call myself obsessed.

Cowboy Bebop definitely expresses some interesting themes and messages. It touches on various topics, including death, how life is a dream (with aspects of Buddhism and samurai Bushido), romance, the past (and how the characters deal with it), and comradeship. These themes and messages are expressed mostly through the dialogue and the characters’ actions. Though these are all interesting themes, I like the series not because of its themes and messages. Rather, I like Cowboy Bebop because it tells a very good story and it tells that story very artistically. You see in Cowboy Bebop elements of jazz, space western, Hong Kong action, Bruce Lee, and film noir. The characters are all very dynamic and interesting. It’s really artistic the way the shots and the scenes are set up. As a work of art, Cowboy Bebop really succeeds.

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Newton’s Cradle Animation showing the conservation of momentum and energy. Look at this largest cradle in development here.

A CV Joint

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This is called a constant velocity joint. Look at how the rotation around one axis is transferred to a rotation around an axis which is at an angle to the first one. Here the importance of this CV joint is to reduce friction and constant velocity transfer like in a gear. These are applied in cars.

Animation of Zipper

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We use it in our bags, clothes so much that we ignore it!

Tesseract

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A Tesseract is a three dimensional projection of a 4 dimensional cube. It “is to the cube as cube is to the square”. The above is the projection in 3-D when it actually rotates in 4-D!

Radial Engine

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These engines are used in aircrafts. These are special in that they are flat and take smaller room. This helps the aircraft make turns easily and quickly. Hence it is also used in fighter aircrafts.

Juggling Balls

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There is no need to explain these. Can you do this? Now you should be able to do given the above technical demo.

35 Sphere Pyramid

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A pyramid made of 35 spheres is rotating. The spheres in different colors and being transparent make it look beautiful.

An AEG gun

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It is an airsoft gun made by AEG. These guns are primarily created for recreational purposes. This shows internal working of its gearboxes.

Geneva Drive Mechanism

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What did you notice? An intermittent motion. The first thing that came to my mind about its use is in clocks. Guess another application? It is also used in movie projectors where the film is not continuously shown one after another, but each one for 1/24th of a second. That results in a picture being shown at the same time animated due to our perception.

3-D Model of Human Face

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Starting with eyes as two spheres, rest of the face is modeled with spider webs which finally shows the face.

He originally trained as a commercial artist before starting his own animation studio. Mickey Mouse was part of this studio from the beginning and appeared in his first films ‘Plane Crazy’ and ‘Steamboat Willy’ which were both first shown in 1928.

Plane Crazy

Steamboat Willy

In 1937 ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, the very first feature length cartoon was made. This was followed by ‘Fantasia’ in 1940, ‘Dumbo’ in 1941, and ‘Bambi’ in 1942.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Fantasia

Dumbo

Bambi

Disney and his corporation invented a huge number of amazing characters and the very first Disneyland theme park which was opened in 1955 was a project headed by Disney himself.

He died in 1966 from lung cancer just a short time before the opening of his dream project Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

The corporation founded by Disney has annual revenues of around $35 billion.

1. This is our chosen starting point. Hopefully you didn’t press too hard on the pencil and can still easily erase it.

   

2. Erase the curving sides of the smiley and draw in a straight line to narrow out the face. Erase the side edges of the smile to make the mouth appropriately smaller.
3. Draw small inward curving lines on each side of the mouth and add another slightly curved line under the mouth (to express lips) as shown by the small arrows. The curved line under the mouth should be a little darker than the other lines, add some medium pressure to it to darken it a bit. (to imply a shadow)
   
4. Just above the mouth, draw in a small “quotation” mark as shown. Above that mark, draw a medium pressure “u” shape, but widen it a little. (to imply a shadow under the nose)

Next, erase the spot mark eyes and in their place draw in small, circular “C” shapes with light-medium pressure. Above your new eyes, add a simple short line for the brows.

1. Draw another “C” shape at each side of the head for the ears
2. Draw in a light outline on top of the head and above the face for the hairline. Keep it simple for now, as shown.
3. Erase the line that makes the top of the head and begin to color in your hair, stay within the outline you made and begin at lower area of the hairline
4. This simple up-n-down stroke pattern works well here. Proceed back and forth, so it looks like the darker example.

   

5. Finally, color in the top of the hair but leave a thin white area as shown (to express a shine in the hair). You can then add the cheek and chin lines as shown.

Shading and or shadow can be added for effect. Depending on the shape of your smiley face, your character can appear thinner or fatter.

This is of course a simple drawing example. More complex and detailed sketches begin here with basic lines and shapes.