Japanese Manga artist and feature of the festival, Makoto Tanaka, tells the Jerusalem Post about her manga adaptation depicting the suffering of Israeli citizens held hostage by Hamas.
Japanese manga artist Makoto Tanaka, who became famous for her manga story about the kidnapping of Noa Argamani, will arrive from Tokyo to be a guest at the festival.
Miyazaki’s unique work is imaginative and filled with beautiful imagery, but his stories also have great emotional depth, usually from the point of view of children.
It’s a haunting and beautiful look at a girl listening to a Holocaust survivor tell the story of how his life was saved during the war by a pig he hid behind.
If you can flow with the feelings behind the movie and see it as a well-observed version of the psyche of a fragile and traumatized child, you will find much to enjoy.
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The animation, comics, and caricature festival is to include a cartoonist discussion of Israel's ongoing mass protests.
The key to his success in both entertainment and hi-tech, he said, was in “exceeding expectations.'
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