Hugely experimental and wonderfully unique, Evangelion is a roaring success. The basic, initial, plot goes thus: a 14-year-old boy named Shinji is called to NERV (an organization charged with defending mankind from extinction, no less) by his estranged, seemingly cold and calculating father. There, his fathers' first words are an order to pilot an immense robotic machine, the titular Evangelion, and fight against the monster that's attacking Tokyo-3, the city under which NERV has it's headquarters
Traditional animation was photographs of drawing, which were first drawn on paper; this was also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation. Animation was usually drawn so that the drawing would differ slightly from the one before it; this is usually called an illusion of movement. One of the earliest examples of animation was in 1831 when Dr. Joseph Antoine and Dr. Simon Rittrer created a machine called the phenakitstoscope. This machine had people stare at a rotating disk. When it rotated at
Popular culture is an interesting subject to study. Some people love pop culture and make it their lifelong love. Some people reject pop culture and remain as detached as possible. Many instead embrace certain pop culture icons and media, yet avoid other areas. I identify with that mixed group of pop culture aficionados that love certain parts of pop culture, while avoiding a small section like a plague. Overall, Pop culture has provided me with many life experiences that have helped me become the
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Introduction What is posthumanism? As the name might imply the concept of posthumanism is essentially the next step, so to speak, in the human nature. A transcendence, of shorts, of mankind. This could take various forms, be it from feasible and current ways such as genetically engineered food, prosthetics due to injury to far-off and futuristic concepts such as cyborg technologies (prosthetics for the purpose of body or mind enhancement rather than appliance to amputees), digital preservation
"Kanjani Eight is a Japanese pop idol group formed by 7 members who are from Japan's Kansai region. They are under the multimedia talent agency, Johnny & Associates and having their own record label 「INFINITY RECORDS 」. The name of Kanjani 8 meant「Kansai Johnny's 8 members」 due to all of the member's living region. They are known as idol group but also comedians. Due to their sense of a joke, the group is also popular with men too. At first, most of the members were casts of the TV show「J3KANSAI」
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