When you enter the vibrant world of Japanese storytelling, two terms you’ll frequently come across are anime and manga. Though they are often mentioned together, anime and manga have distinct characteristics that set them apart. In this article, we’ll explore these differences and similarities, making it easier for newcomers and enthusiasts to appreciate both art forms. For more in-depth insights into manga, visit Zinmanga, a fantastic resource for manga lovers.

What is Manga?

Manga refers to Japanese comic books or graphic novels. They are traditionally read from right to left, which is the opposite of English-language books. Manga covers a wide range of genres and targets various age groups. Its storytelling is primarily through images and written dialogue.

What is Anime?

Anime, a term derived from the word ‘animation,’ refers to Japanese animated TV shows and movies. It includes a wide array of genres and caters to diverse audiences, similar to manga. Anime is known for its vibrant characters, fantastical themes, and colorful graphics.

Key Differences Between Anime and Manga

1. Medium: The most obvious difference is the medium. Anime is animated, often with voice actors, soundtracks, and dynamic movement. Manga, on the other hand, is static, existing on the page with illustrations and dialogue.
2. Pacing: Due to its nature, manga often has a slower, more detailed storytelling pace, while anime might condense or alter parts of the story for timing.
3. Availability: New manga chapters are usually released weekly or monthly, while anime seasons or episodes have a different release schedule.

Similarities Between Anime and Manga

1. Storytelling and Themes: Both mediums often share similar themes and storylines, with many anime being adaptations of manga.
2. Cultural Influence: Anime and manga are significant parts of Japanese culture and have a global influence, shaping perceptions of Japanese society and art.
3. Diverse Genres: Both offer a variety of genres, from action to romance, catering to all ages and preferences.

The Experience of Consuming Manga and Anime

Reading manga can be a more personal, imaginative experience, where the reader controls the pacing. Watching anime, meanwhile, offers a more communal and dynamic experience, especially with the addition of music and voice acting.

Manga as the Blueprint for Anime

Many popular anime series started as manga. The manga often serves as the blueprint for the anime adaptation, though sometimes with slight differences in plot or character development. For a deeper dive into the world of manga, check out MangaOwl.

Which Should You Choose?

The choice between anime and manga depends on personal preference. If you enjoy reading and imagining the scenes in your mind, manga might be for you. If you prefer watching stories come to life with animation and sound, then anime is the way to go.

Conclusion

Whether you choose to dive into the intricate world of manga or the colorful universe of anime, you’re in for a treat. Both offer unique experiences and storytelling styles that have captivated audiences worldwide. Remember, it’s not about choosing one over the other, but rather enjoying the richness that both bring to the world of entertainment.

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Wikipedia says that it is a behavior, style, and idea that gets spread from person to person. But as memes are all about fun, I would also classify them, quite seriously of course, as packet of bytes to balance mood swings. The major purpose of a meme is just to spread laughter.

Benefits of posting memes on your blog:

There is no doubt memes can go viral in a few minutes; most of the die-hard meme fans can’t wait for the next, newest, freshest meme to share and blab about. This type of meme below is used to share an opinion but with a touch of sarcasm.

Free Online Meme Makers for Your Blog:

1. Filmora FREE Online Meme Maker

This free online meme generator was just released on the market. Just as the title says, this is a free online meme maker which you can use on both Windows PC and Mac. Although you can also create video memes with the Filmora Video Editor  this meme creator is totally free to make images, gif and video memes,with no watermark in the output.

Just upload your file and paste the media URL to the editor, and then you can add meme quote texts in the image or outside of the image, and adjust its color, size and font as desired. If you are making memes from a video, you can trim the unwanted parts first and then add text. After the meme is created, you can download it to your computer directly.

2. Imgur

Here is one of the top-rated meme generator websites, also recognized as the world’s best image hosting platforms. This meme generator tool is quite effective and interactive; even beginners will find it easy to use. You can simply pick any default background from the grid to create the desired meme or upload your own image to create something unique. Once the image is added to the tool, simply type your text on it, and Imgur allows you to share the created meme directly on a website.

You can also find hundreds of pre-made memes as well in the Imgur library.

3. Make a Meme:

Make a Meme is a super quick and simple to use platform for creating interesting memes that work well with your blog posts. All that you need to do is browse through the variety of thumbnails and pick the best one for your
meme background. Next customize your text to add the caption for the meme and then hit the preview button on the screen. If you find your meme good, simply share it on the desired platform. Marketing professionals rate this
tool high due to its easy to use a terminal and wide collection of thumbnails. You can every time find something unique to design a meme.

4. Imgflip:

Using Img Flip, you can drag and resize text boxes anywhere on the image; editing can be done on mobile handsets as well. This tool also allows users to customize fonts and create additional text boxes to add a new touch of
sarcasm to the meme. ImgFlip extends support to almost all website fonts, Mac fonts, and Window fonts while handling italic and bold text as well.

Users can easily rotate these memes, add custom images, scumbag hats, or develop meme chain by simply stalking multiple images together. The only sad fact about this tool is that it puts a watermark on all memes; however,
you can avoid that by switching to the professional version of the tool.

5. Meme Generator:

This website has achieved a higher rank on the list of best meme makers due to its cool tools that help to create memes instantly. It allows users to browse some of the best memes online and edit them to create something new.
Many bloggers prefer to use this app to create original content for their posts.

One of the major drawbacks of this tool is that it carries lots of advertisements that may annoy you during the meme creation process. Also, like most other meme creator websites, meme generator also puts a watermark on all memes that may appear little off-putting for blog posts.

Conclusion:

If you are interested in making your blog posts more interesting, creating interesting and relevant memes is a pretty easy way to go. By using any of the above mentioned meme generator tools, you can share lots of funny but meaningful messages within your content. It can help you to generate higher engagement while diverting more traffic to your website.

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We’re very excited to bring you our first program, “Social Media is as Worthless as the Telephone.” We had the privilege (the playwright asked us to say that) to discuss the inspiration for this script with Barry, who is known not for his contributions to modern theater, but for writing marketing communications, websites,  blog posts, and various forms of online content. Whether it was passion, frustration or simply one too many espressos, Mr. Feldman was extremely animated when he explained the genesis of his one-act play came from having read close to 1,000,000 articles about C-level executives’ disregard for social media.

Many continue deeming social media as trivial. A shocking population of executives, business owners, and even marketing professionals maintain a cavalier attitude standing adamantly by the position social media has low or no value for marketing and sales. All too often, even those that have plugged into Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and the like, are prone to pull the proverbial plug in the early stages. They cite minuscule ROI. They deny a 140-character quip will ever get the cash register to ring. And, of course, they continuously attach social media to the prepubescents demographic who lack any real spending power. Some would actually LOL if: (1) they knew what the common text abbreviation meant and (2) you were to tell them social media is how people engage with one another today.

Our story takes place in the chief executive’s office at a business enterprise. Please silence your mobile phones.  

John
Have a seat Marty. It’s good to see you. Would you like a scotch?

Marty
Scotch sir? It’s 9 o’clock in the morning.

John
Right, right. It is early. Just want you to be comfortable. Would you prefer a beer?

Marty
If it’s okay with you sir, coffee would be just great.

John
Suit yourself buckwheat. And please, call me John.

Marty
Yes sir. Er, Mr. President.

John
John. Call me John.

Marty
Yes, yes, John.

John
So what have you got for me Marty? Connie mentioned you sent me a memo. I never get to the damn things, but she said you wanted to show me something you thought would be useful for the business. Is that right?

Marty
Yes sssssrrrr—yes, John. Let me get right to it. I know you’re busy.
(Reaches into his case and sets his device on the president’s desk.)
This is it. It’s called a telephone.

John
I’m listening.

Marty
Great. Well John, the telephone is really ingenious. With it, you can communicate with people, anybody, any where. They don’t need to be in the same room. Each user has a number, so you simply press the buttons and if they’re there, they pick up this part, the handset, and you can hear each other talk.

John
Well I’ll be damned. That’s very clever. What will they think of next?

Marty
Only time will tell. I suspect there could come a time when you might be able to record the conversations, speak with more than one person at a time. You never know. Maybe someday a pocket-sized version will allow you to take it with you.

John
Pocket-sized!? Why that’s very funny Marty. Maybe someday it’ll give you directions to a nearby bar. No, I got it: you’ll be able to watch football games with the damn thing.
(John laughs his ass off. Marty shrinks.)
So tell me son, how would this help us grow the business? It seems like a distraction to me. I would think you’d use the thing, uh, what did you say it was called?

Marty
It’s called a telephone.

John
Right, right, right. Catchy name. So what I was saying is if you had one of these telephone machines, you might talk to your friends, your family… You know what I mean son? How would you get any work done?

Marty
Great question Marty. My theory is while it’s true you could talk on the telephone with your friends, here at Innovation Global Enterprises, we could use it to talk to our customers and our partners. We could build relationships.

John
I think your heart’s in the right place John, but I guess I’m the president of this taco stand for a reason. We don’t want to build relationships. We have a business to run. Priorities. You understand.

Marty
Excellent point sir, but if you don’t mind me saying so, I think if we built relationships by having conversations with people and sharing ideas, we would in turn, build our business. The people we spoke to might even call their friends and tell them about what we make.

John
I like you John. You might be a little green and naïve in the ways of business, but you dream big. Those are some interesting ideas you have about communications, even if they are a little, er, how should I say…? Whacked.

Marty
Sir, I think I might have that beer now.

John
That’s my boy. Here you go. Try this one. They call it “Lite.” Seems to weigh just as much as any other 12-ounce can, but they say it tastes great and it’s less filling.

Marty
Thank you sir, John. So could I ask you to consider what I’ve said here today?

John
I must have missed something. Tell me again why we’d want our people using this fancy machine to talk to customers?

Marty
Lots of reasons. They might have questions we can answer for them. If they were having problems with the products, we could tell them how to solve them.

John
You want the company to answer questions and solve our customers’ problems? We have products to make and we must sell them. I’m not running a charity here son.

Marty
Yes, sir, but I was thinking if we could be the company people trusted as a resource for information and advice, they might buy even more of our products.

John
It’s a very nice thought Marty. It’s admirable how you young ‘uns like to embrace all the abstract ideas about community and love and all that touchy, feely shit. It really is. Will there be anything else John? I have the advertising agency coming in very soon. They said they wanted to talk about some box that has channels people can turn on to watch people talk and tell jokes.

Marty
Right, right. They’re probably talking about the television.

John
Television! Right! I think that was it. Telephone. Television. I don’t know how anybody can keep up with all these tele-things.

Marty
Well, things do tend to change very fast in media. People want to share their experiences.
(Marty gets up to leave.)
I’ll get out of your hair now sir.

John
Marty, I’m a fair guy. And you know, I wouldn’t have got to where I am today if I wasn’t open to new things and new ideas. You kids coming out of college sure have a lot of them. Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to think about this telephone device. I might even buy one for the office.

Marty
You may like it.

John
No, no. I’m too old to be screwing around with fancy technology. But maybe someone here could use it to talk on. They could call up people that don’t buy our products, maybe at dinner time when everyone’s home and tell them when we’re having a sale and that sort of thing. I want you to do something for me Marty. Play around with that one you have and bring me a report. I’d like to see some documented evidence that this sort of thing has a return on investment. I call it ROI. Get it? ROI. It’s an abbreviation for return on investment.

Marty
Good one sir. And thank you for the beer. It really was very light.

John
Damn straight my boy. Some brewery came up with some fancy way to take out a lot of the calories. Just goes to show you son, you can’t put the brakes on innovation.

THE END

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A customer’s path to conversion often entails several twists and turns and doubling back to pour over information.  For that reason, I have re-purposed my sales funnel, filled it with the batter of leads and poured it into a vat of hot oil… and voila! We have the Sales Funnel Cake!

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This could pose many awkward situations.  Let’s say that you have recently started working for a company and you love your new job.  But maybe, in 2011 you “liked” their archnemesis rival company’s page.  That “like” was long forgotten in your mind, but springs right to the top of the list when your new boss does a Graph Search for people who work at your company that like your rival.  That example might be a little far-fetched, but it is entirely possible given the power of Graph Search.

The moral of the story is: be aware of the information you share and the privacy settings that are on your account.  If you are concerned about “Big Brother” looking over your shoulder, you might want to change some settings from “Everyone” to “Friends”.  Or maybe you are completely paranoid; in that case feel free to change the settings to “Only Me”.  If you want to see something really eye-opening, take a look at your activity log and see all of the things you have done or liked on Facebook. You may have second thoughts about some of those comments that you posted or those late night partying photos you were tagged in.

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Reputation management is not only an important thing to monitor on social networks, but for SEO rankings as well.  User experience across all channels of interactions, whether online, on the phone, or in-person, will have an impact on how people react to your brand.  If you are providing poor customer experience or sub-par content that is  irrelevant to your target customers, chances are they will talk about you negatively online.  Companies should have a handle on all of the terms they are ranking for and proactively address any causes of negative keywords.  Be sure to include SEO in your typical  reputation management process.

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