July 17, 2014
The manga artist Ai Tanaka and the editor and manga researcher Nobuhiko Saito will give
a talk at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF 2014), where a selection of short animated works entered in the Japan Media Arts Festival will also be shown.
18th Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF 2014)
■ Special Program by Japan Media Arts Festival
Talk Event: Editor and upcoming manga artist discuss “Japanese Manga through the Ages”
The manga artist Ai Tanaka who gives a talk for this event received the New Face award in the Manga Division of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival for her work Sennen Mannen Ringo no Ko (Apple children of aeon). Nobuhiko Saito, a juror at the Japan Media Arts Festival 2012 and 2013, will talk about how she became a manga artist and what inspired her to make Sennen Mannen Ringo no Ko with her as a moderator. As she has got a chance to have a serialized manga for a magazine by her dojinshi (self-published manga), he will also describe magazine culture and how a dojinshi is published in Japan, as well as a social situation related to manga, comparing them to Korean lively online comics.
Speakers: Ai Tanaka (Manga artist), Nobuhiko Saito (Editor & manga researcher)
Date: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Wednesday 23 July
Venue: Seoul Ani-Cinema/Seoul Animation Center
8-145 Yejang-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-250
Tel. +82-2-3455-8341
SICAF website: http://en.sicaf.org/
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◎Official Screening at the 18th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival（SICAF）2014
Award-winning works from the Japan Media Arts Festival 2013 will be screened at the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF), which is being held 22-27 July in the South Korean capital of Seoul.
The Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival is the biggest of its kind in South Korea to see interesting and stimulating animated works and comics from all over the world. It comprises screenings of works entered into the official competition, displays, as well as markets for discovering new and upcoming animation projects and producers.
The Japan Media Arts Festival will screen 12 short animated works at the 18th SICAF to largely introduce expressiveness of an animated work and a comic. The majority of them are award-winning works in the Animation Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival 2013.
Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF)
http://en.sicaf.org/
Date: Tuesday 22 – Sunday 27 July
Venues: CGV Myung Dong Yeok, Seoul Animation Center and other locations in Seoul, South Korea.
■ Official Screening of works entered into the Japan Media Arts Festival 2013
Date: 7:20 p.m. Tuesday 22 July, 4:10 p.m. Friday 25 July
Venue: CGV Myung Dong Yeok 4
※A festival pass is required to enter the venue.
Screening Program:
YOKOSOBOKUDESU Selection, HIMEDA Manabu
Airy Me, KUNO Yoko
Wee Willie Winkie, SAKAMOTO Yusuke
Kick-Heart, YUASA Masaaki
Snow Hut, MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI, Shishi YAMAZAKI
MyakuMyaku -Drops of Life-, IMABAYASHI Yuka
Anomalies, WADA Atsushi
Here, There and Everywhere, KABUKI Sawako
MAZE KING, KIM Hakhyun
The Hyuga episode of Kojiki, YAMAMURA Koji
WONDER, MIZUE Mira