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Megatokyo

Index Megatokyo

(also stylized as MegaTokyo) is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston. [1]

89 relations: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Anime, Anime News Network, Anna Miller's, Apprenticeship, Archetype, Author surrogate, Bracket, Bubblegum Crisis, CMX (comics), Comic relief, Comics Bulletin, Computing, Contract killing, Dark Horse Comics, Dating sim, DC Comics, Domain name, Dotdash, Dramacon, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Electrostatic discharge, Fan (person), Fan service, Fred Gallagher (cartoonist), Full-time, Gag-a-day, Godzilla, Goth subculture, Grayscale, Great Teacher Onizuka, IGN, Image scanner, Japanese idol, Japanese name, Jerry Holkins, Job, Kanon (visual novel), Kodansha, Leet, List of Kanon characters, List of Martian Successor Nadesico characters, Lolita fashion, Magical girl, Manga, Martian Successor Nadesico, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Mecha, Memory card, ..., Micropayment, Nielsen BookScan, Ninja, Omake, Original English-language manga, Parody, Part-time contract, Penny Arcade, Player character, PlayStation 2, Protagonist, Publishers Weekly, Punch line, PvP, Rodney Caston, Romanization of Japanese, Sega, Shōjo manga, Slapstick, Sony, Stereotype, Stick figure, Studio Ironcat, Subculture, Svetlana Chmakova, Talk radio, The New York Times, ThinkGeek, Tracing paper, Tsundere, Upskirt, Visual novel, Voice acting in Japan, Wayback Machine, Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, Webcomic, Wiki, WildStorm, Word of mouth. Expand index (39 more) »

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Anime News Network

Anime News Network (ANN) is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, South East Asia and Japan.

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Anna Miller's

is a chain of restaurants in Hawaii and Japan.

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Apprenticeship

An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.

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Author surrogate

As a literary technique, an author surrogate is a fictional character based on the author.

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Bracket

A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.

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Bubblegum Crisis

is a 1987 to 1991 cyberpunk original video animation (OVA) series produced by Youmex and animated by AIC and Artmic.

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CMX (comics)

CMX was an imprint of DC Comics.

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Comic relief

Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene, or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.

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Comics Bulletin

Comics Bulletin is a daily website covering the American comic-book industry.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

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Contract killing

Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher.

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Dating sim

Dating sims, or, are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

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Dotdash

Dotdash (formerly About.com) is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its "topic sites", of which there are nearly 1,000.

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Dramacon

Dramacon is an original English-language (OEL) manga written and illustrated by Svetlana Chmakova.

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Electronic Entertainment Expo

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly referred to as E3, is a premier trade event for the video game industry.

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Electrostatic discharge

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is the sudden flow of electricity between two electrically charged objects caused by contact, an electrical short, or dielectric breakdown.

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Fan (person)

A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also termed aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a singer or band, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie or an entertainer.

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Fan service

, fanservice, or,Example: A frame (numbered "25") from the English opening sequence of New Cutie Honey, in which character Danbei Hayami fires a Rocket Punch as main character Honey Kisaragi lies topless and prone in the background, is shown and captioned "" is material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series which is intentionally added to please the audience.

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Fred Gallagher (cartoonist)

Frederick Gallagher (born November 15, 1968) is an American illustrator and web cartoonist.

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Full-time

Full-time employment is employment in which a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

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Gag-a-day

A gag-a-day comic strip is the style of writing comic cartoons such that every installment of a strip delivers a complete joke (or other kind of artistic statement).

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Godzilla

() is a monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan.

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Goth subculture

The goth subculture is a music subculture that began in England during the early 1980s, where it developed from the audience of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk genre.

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Grayscale

In photography, computing, and colorimetry, a grayscale or greyscale image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light, that is, it carries only intensity information.

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Great Teacher Onizuka

, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Image scanner

An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner, although the term is ambiguous out of context (barcode scanner, CT scanner etc.)—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.

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Japanese idol

In Japanese pop culture is a term typically used to refer to young manufactured stars/starlets marketed to be admired for their cuteness.

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Japanese name

in modern times usually consist of a family name (surname), followed by a given name.

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Jerry Holkins

Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins (born February 6, 1976 in the United States) is an American writer.

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Job

A job, or occupation, is a person's role in society.

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Kanon (visual novel)

is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Key released on June 4, 1999 for Windows PCs.

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Kodansha

is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Leet

Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings and verbiage used primarily on the Internet for many phonetic languages.

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List of Kanon characters

This is a list of characters from the Japanese visual novel, manga, and anime series Kanon.

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List of Martian Successor Nadesico characters

The following is a list of characters from the Japanese manga and anime Martian Successor Nadesico.

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Lolita fashion

is a fashion subculture from Japan that is highly influenced by Victorian and Edwardian children's clothing and styles from the Rococo period.

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Magical girl

is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga which features girls with magical powers or who use magic.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Martian Successor Nadesico

, sometimes referred to as, is a science fiction comedy anime television series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya.

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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are a combination of role-playing video games and massively multiplayer online games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual world.

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Mecha

The term may refer to both scientific ideas and science fiction genres that center on giant robots or machines controlled by people.

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Memory card

A memory card, flash card or memory cartridge is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information.

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Micropayment

A micropayment is a financial transaction involving a very small sum of money and usually one that occurs online.

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Nielsen BookScan

Nielsen BookScan has been a data provider for the book publishing industry, owned by the Nielsen Company up to 2016, though it is still in use via the NPD Group.

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Ninja

A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan.

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Omake

means extra in Japanese.

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Original English-language manga

An original English-language manga or OEL manga is a comic book or graphic novel originally published in English.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Part-time contract

A part-time contract is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

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Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.

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Player character

A player character (also known as PC and playable character) is a fictional character in a role-playing game or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Punch line

A punch line (punch-line or punchline) concludes a joke; it is intended to make people laugh.

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PvP

PvP, also known as Player vs Player, is an early video game webcomic, written and drawn by Scott Kurtz.

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Rodney Caston

Rodney Caston (born May 13, 1977) is an American security researcher, ethical hacker and writer currently living in Seattle, WA.

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Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.

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Sega

Sega Games Co., Ltd., originally short for Service Games and officially styled as SEGA, is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with offices around the world.

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Shōjo manga

is manga aimed at a teenage female target-demographic readership.

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Slapstick

Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.

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Sony

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Stick figure

A stick figure is a very simple drawing of a person or animal, composed of a few lines, curves, and dots.

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Studio Ironcat

Studio Ironcat was a small publishing company based in Fredericksburg, Virginia, dedicated to publication of manga and later, Amerimanga.

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Subculture

A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.

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Svetlana Chmakova

Svetlana Chmakova (Светлана Шмакова) (born October 7, 1979) is a Russian and Canadian comic artist.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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ThinkGeek

ThinkGeek is an American retailer that caters to computer enthusiasts and "geek culture".

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Tracing paper

Tracing paper is paper made to have low opacity, allowing light to pass through.

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Tsundere

is a Japanese term for a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold (and sometimes even hostile) before gradually showing a warmer, friendlier side over time.

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Upskirt

Upskirt is the practice of making unauthorized photographs under a woman's skirt or man's kilt, capturing an image of the crotch area, underwear and sometimes genitalia.

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Visual novel

A is an interactive game genre, which originated in Japan, featuring mostly static graphics, most often using anime-style art or occasionally live-action stills (and sometimes video footage).

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Voice acting in Japan

Voice acting in Japan is acting as a narrator or as an actor in radio plays or as a character actor in anime and video games.

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Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet.

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Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards

The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards (WCCA) were annual awards in which established webcartoonists nominated and selected outstanding webcomics.

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Webcomic

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app.

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Wiki

A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser.

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WildStorm

WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, (often rendered Wildstorm) is an American comic book imprint.

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Word of mouth

Word of mouth or viva voce, is the passing of information from person to person by oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatokyo

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