Neo-Ixania
15-04-2009, 20:06
OOC: This thread will be reserved for events occuring in the Ixanian Empire and her colonies - it is essential that all questions, inquires and so forth be TGed to me rather than posted here in this thread. Ixanian foreign policy will be reported about here as well, for those nations who are close to Ixania more so than others. Each day - whenever I can post - will have events in varied categories from culture to politics, to make things more realistic. The Ixanian Broadcasting Corporation is one of the oldest television companies in my nation with a wardrobe of Ixanian language programming also broadcasted in Russian and German. Mods, please delete my previous news feed thread. This one shall replace it.
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A young and attractive woman appears on the screen in one of those typical news suits you would often see such women wearing on television. She holds some papers in her hands and speaks calmly in the Ixanian language while pictures of people and events flare up behind her head. After introducing herself to the viewers, she begins with recounting what has happened this past week. "Acclaimed horror novelist, Heinrich Eisenhauer, has announced the release of his brand new novel, Toten Sie, which is predicted to score huge gains with his fans. Eisenhauer began writing novels in 1976 with the release of Priscilla: An Experiment in Human Brutality which shocked the Empire's readers with its story of a psychopathic schoolgirl who brutally murders her bullies and the schoolboy who - as her only friend - tries to support her."
A segment about the popularity of Eisenhauer's novels is then shown, with footage of the various movie adaptations of his work, and footage of the most recent interview with the man himself in which he stated: "Writers live on support, you know but it's impossible to tell if you'll get it. You wake up every morning and wonder if the novel you're writing will be accepted or not. In my opinion, it's more of a concern to worry about if the public will accept your work, rather than the publishers. I mean, publishing a novel is hard, yes, but it's even more harder to write something that not just ten people will read."
The interviewer then asks Eisenhauer about his latest novel, Toten Sie, which is about a child murderer who kidnaps a demonically posessed girl without knowing it - it is too late when he finally discovers how "special" this child really is. "The idea behind this novel was karma, the idea that bad things will happen to you if you do bad things. I came up with the idea after going through some old manuscripts from In Meinem Himmel, one of my most celebrated works." Eisenhauer later stated that he plans to continue writing for many more years to come and that he was sincerely thankful for the support over the years. (OOC: Heinrich Eisenhauer is the Ixanian version of Stephen King - his novels are usually within the realm of psychological horror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_horror)/horror-of-personality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror-of-personality) since those are the dominant brands of the genre in my nation.)
Once that segment had ended, there came a segment on the success of the National Animation Convention which brought Ixanian animators and their fans to the capital for fun and discussions over a single week. Martin Brandt gave a presentation on Labyrinth (the famously successful anime series about a murdered girl in Heaven) in its relation to the phenonemnon of child murder while the producers behind Lightning Strike discussed the various technologies of the armies within that series - as well as answering questions behind the relationship of Lt. Lisette Schtauffen and Damien, her aide-de-camp. Lightning Strike documents the fictional war between a Byzantine style Empire and a French Revolutionary/Robespierrean style Republic. Lisette Schtauffen is a noblewoman who is ordered to lead a bunch of underdogs, the "rejects of the Imperial Armed Forces" into numerous missions. The series premiered as a comic series of twelve to sixteen volumes in 2003 with the anime adaptation produced in 2005. Although the series officially ended, it still is re-runned on Ixanian television along with many other animated hits such as Blood Sword, the classic tale of vigilantism and vengeance. One of the hosts of the NAC said that Ixanians do not 'only produce anime, we produce ALL kinds of animation."
The National Animation Convention began in the 70s when the creator of the critically acclaimed (even by royalty) anime series, Vera the Lady Knight, Vladimir Andropov, had felt that it was time for greater solidarity among animators. Vera the Lady Knight was an Ixanian anime series that ran from 1973 to 1980 and which had many fans including royal and noble children. It told the story of Vera, a young woman who relies on the code of chivalry in her fight against crime and of how she explores the vast world developing before her eyes. When the series was finally ended after several years of comics, merchandise and television, many fans lamented the loss of a television legend that they loved to watch every day that they could. It was one of the first "old animes" to return to television as part of a "retro campaign" initiated by television companies.
At the 2009 NAC, Vladimir Andropov said: "Vera the Lady Knight was a pleasure to work on. It was something I'll never forget doing and I'm so glad that people loved it. The idea for it came out of those old tales about heroes you'd read as a child, and I thought to myself "Why not make a story about such a hero, but make the hero as a female child?" In that little episode in my past, the series was born."
Andropov appeared at the 2009 Convention to talk with fans about his inspiration for creating the series and various tidbits about Vera and other characters. Vera was rated as one of the top ten of Ixania's Top Fifty Best Loved Anime Characters alongside legends such as the anime adaptation of Gustav Hauptmann, an Ixanian serial killer known as The Werewolf who has an anime made of his rise and fall - the creators of The Werewolf were at the convention to discuss why they created a series about the man who murdered eighteen girls during the 1930s. One of them said: "We wanted to highlight a period in Ixanian history that we feel has to be discussed. Sometimes you have to tell yourself such people exist. You can never fool yourself like that - you never should."
The story of Gustav Hauptmann was first documented in the 1995 book, Daggers in His Smile which was written by one of the surviving detectives of the Hauptmann case and in the movie adaptation of the story in 2002, Werewolf, which scored well among Ixanian critics. The anime was released about four years later to standing ovation with its use of film noir and "aesthetically intense" scenes of gore and death. Gustav Hauptmann was found guilty of the murder, rape and torture of eighteen girls and was executed in the 1940s. He is often seen as one of the most infamous serial killers ever seen in Ixania.
Ixanian neutrality in the Neoslavian conflict and the apparent inability to decide on whether or not the Republican government in Letat was legitimate or not was also mentioned. It was said that Her Majesty's Government had no comment on the events in Letat but that they were constantly contemplating "possible decisions". The Empress of Ixania's donation to a sick children's fund was mentioned with enthusiastic gratefulness by crying parents, many of whom loved the Empress for her willingness to visit children in hospitals, to donate out of her own pocket, to make everyone know how devoted she was to helping her people out. Empress Anastasia II, though, was ardently nationalistic and apparently loved the charity begins at home system - yet, that did not matter to most Ixanians at all. The Empress, it was said, was currently in the capital with her relatives, after returning from the successful visit to Ang Philippines, a new friend of Ixania.
Following the rest of the various segments on several topics such as entertainment and the latest scandals, the young, attractive woman on the screen began to bid her viewers good night since it was nighttime in Ixania at the time of this broadcast. She walked off the stage after a while and sighed. What a day of news, she thought. There'd be a lot more soon enough.
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A young and attractive woman appears on the screen in one of those typical news suits you would often see such women wearing on television. She holds some papers in her hands and speaks calmly in the Ixanian language while pictures of people and events flare up behind her head. After introducing herself to the viewers, she begins with recounting what has happened this past week. "Acclaimed horror novelist, Heinrich Eisenhauer, has announced the release of his brand new novel, Toten Sie, which is predicted to score huge gains with his fans. Eisenhauer began writing novels in 1976 with the release of Priscilla: An Experiment in Human Brutality which shocked the Empire's readers with its story of a psychopathic schoolgirl who brutally murders her bullies and the schoolboy who - as her only friend - tries to support her."
A segment about the popularity of Eisenhauer's novels is then shown, with footage of the various movie adaptations of his work, and footage of the most recent interview with the man himself in which he stated: "Writers live on support, you know but it's impossible to tell if you'll get it. You wake up every morning and wonder if the novel you're writing will be accepted or not. In my opinion, it's more of a concern to worry about if the public will accept your work, rather than the publishers. I mean, publishing a novel is hard, yes, but it's even more harder to write something that not just ten people will read."
The interviewer then asks Eisenhauer about his latest novel, Toten Sie, which is about a child murderer who kidnaps a demonically posessed girl without knowing it - it is too late when he finally discovers how "special" this child really is. "The idea behind this novel was karma, the idea that bad things will happen to you if you do bad things. I came up with the idea after going through some old manuscripts from In Meinem Himmel, one of my most celebrated works." Eisenhauer later stated that he plans to continue writing for many more years to come and that he was sincerely thankful for the support over the years. (OOC: Heinrich Eisenhauer is the Ixanian version of Stephen King - his novels are usually within the realm of psychological horror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_horror)/horror-of-personality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror-of-personality) since those are the dominant brands of the genre in my nation.)
Once that segment had ended, there came a segment on the success of the National Animation Convention which brought Ixanian animators and their fans to the capital for fun and discussions over a single week. Martin Brandt gave a presentation on Labyrinth (the famously successful anime series about a murdered girl in Heaven) in its relation to the phenonemnon of child murder while the producers behind Lightning Strike discussed the various technologies of the armies within that series - as well as answering questions behind the relationship of Lt. Lisette Schtauffen and Damien, her aide-de-camp. Lightning Strike documents the fictional war between a Byzantine style Empire and a French Revolutionary/Robespierrean style Republic. Lisette Schtauffen is a noblewoman who is ordered to lead a bunch of underdogs, the "rejects of the Imperial Armed Forces" into numerous missions. The series premiered as a comic series of twelve to sixteen volumes in 2003 with the anime adaptation produced in 2005. Although the series officially ended, it still is re-runned on Ixanian television along with many other animated hits such as Blood Sword, the classic tale of vigilantism and vengeance. One of the hosts of the NAC said that Ixanians do not 'only produce anime, we produce ALL kinds of animation."
The National Animation Convention began in the 70s when the creator of the critically acclaimed (even by royalty) anime series, Vera the Lady Knight, Vladimir Andropov, had felt that it was time for greater solidarity among animators. Vera the Lady Knight was an Ixanian anime series that ran from 1973 to 1980 and which had many fans including royal and noble children. It told the story of Vera, a young woman who relies on the code of chivalry in her fight against crime and of how she explores the vast world developing before her eyes. When the series was finally ended after several years of comics, merchandise and television, many fans lamented the loss of a television legend that they loved to watch every day that they could. It was one of the first "old animes" to return to television as part of a "retro campaign" initiated by television companies.
At the 2009 NAC, Vladimir Andropov said: "Vera the Lady Knight was a pleasure to work on. It was something I'll never forget doing and I'm so glad that people loved it. The idea for it came out of those old tales about heroes you'd read as a child, and I thought to myself "Why not make a story about such a hero, but make the hero as a female child?" In that little episode in my past, the series was born."
Andropov appeared at the 2009 Convention to talk with fans about his inspiration for creating the series and various tidbits about Vera and other characters. Vera was rated as one of the top ten of Ixania's Top Fifty Best Loved Anime Characters alongside legends such as the anime adaptation of Gustav Hauptmann, an Ixanian serial killer known as The Werewolf who has an anime made of his rise and fall - the creators of The Werewolf were at the convention to discuss why they created a series about the man who murdered eighteen girls during the 1930s. One of them said: "We wanted to highlight a period in Ixanian history that we feel has to be discussed. Sometimes you have to tell yourself such people exist. You can never fool yourself like that - you never should."
The story of Gustav Hauptmann was first documented in the 1995 book, Daggers in His Smile which was written by one of the surviving detectives of the Hauptmann case and in the movie adaptation of the story in 2002, Werewolf, which scored well among Ixanian critics. The anime was released about four years later to standing ovation with its use of film noir and "aesthetically intense" scenes of gore and death. Gustav Hauptmann was found guilty of the murder, rape and torture of eighteen girls and was executed in the 1940s. He is often seen as one of the most infamous serial killers ever seen in Ixania.
Ixanian neutrality in the Neoslavian conflict and the apparent inability to decide on whether or not the Republican government in Letat was legitimate or not was also mentioned. It was said that Her Majesty's Government had no comment on the events in Letat but that they were constantly contemplating "possible decisions". The Empress of Ixania's donation to a sick children's fund was mentioned with enthusiastic gratefulness by crying parents, many of whom loved the Empress for her willingness to visit children in hospitals, to donate out of her own pocket, to make everyone know how devoted she was to helping her people out. Empress Anastasia II, though, was ardently nationalistic and apparently loved the charity begins at home system - yet, that did not matter to most Ixanians at all. The Empress, it was said, was currently in the capital with her relatives, after returning from the successful visit to Ang Philippines, a new friend of Ixania.
Following the rest of the various segments on several topics such as entertainment and the latest scandals, the young, attractive woman on the screen began to bid her viewers good night since it was nighttime in Ixania at the time of this broadcast. She walked off the stage after a while and sighed. What a day of news, she thought. There'd be a lot more soon enough.