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Okashina Okashi – Strange Candy is a webcomic hosted on Comic Genesis, a free hosting provider for webcomics.〔"Bored this Summer? Try Webcomics!" Tech News, 2002-04-23.〕 It is drawn by Emily Snodgrass (Emi-chan) and written by Allison Brownlow (Tanzy), Karen Olympia (Kourin), and J. Baird (Xuanwu). It was started in 2001, with Brownlow as its first writer, with Olympia added to the team in October 2001. Baird became the primary author in 2004. The comic celebrated its 1000th strip on April 11, 2013. ''Okashina Okashi'' is considered one of the three most important comics in the fields of education and public health — alongside ''Penny Arcade'' and ''Dinosaur Comics'' — for facilitating the development of art-based research methods and a variety of educational projects.〔"Picturevoice: Health Communication Through Art." Presentation. Society for Public Health Education 60th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 6, 2009.〕〔"Healthy Holidays: Lessons Learned from a Community Education Event." Presentation. American Public Health Association 137th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 11, 2009.〕〔Comicvoice: Community education through sequential art. Pop Culture Association - American Culture Association, St. Louis, MO. April 2010〕〔"Comic Projects in the Classroom: Using Interactive Sequential Art to Enhance Education." Workshop. University of Texas University Charter School 2nd Annual Teach & Share. Austin, TX. October 18, 2010.〕〔"Using Interactive Art to Enhance Math Education." Presentation. South by Southwest Education (SXSWedu) 2012, Austin, TX.〕〔Newborn, Dana. The Effect of Age on Comic Narrative Creation. International Journal of Comic Art 13(2), 2011.〕 Baird frequently uses the comics in his volunteer teaching exercises. This involvement began when Baird used the comic as part of his classroom exercises while teaching for Hess Educational Organization, an English education provider in the Republic of China and Singapore.〔Baird, John. "Create a Comic." In Language Learning Games and Activities Volume 3 pg 14-15, edited by Gary Bosomworth and Sheryn Williams. Taipei, Taiwan ROC: Hess Educational Organization, 2005.〕 Similarly, he used the comic again when he volunteered to teach the ''Create a Comic Project'', a free after-school youth literacy library activity in New Haven, CT.〔McLoughlin, Pamela. Cartoons propel creative process. New Haven Register. Published: 2007-03-19.〕〔"Comic Tournament in New Haven." Grand News Community Newspaper. April 2009.〕 This work has garnered praise from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Pearson CEO Marjorie Scardino.〔Scardino, Marjorie. "Keynote Address." SXSWedu 2012: March 7, 2012.〕〔Duncan, Arne. "Keynote Address." SXSWedu 2012: March 8, 2012.〕 Both Snodgrass and Baird have appeared at conventions speaking at amateur artist panels and manga in education panels.〔Tei, Andrew. (2002-07-05) (Anime Expo 2002 Convention Reports ). AnimeOnDVD.com.〕〔(Ushicon Panels - 2003 )〕〔Shepherd, Jeremy. "Otakon 2009: Manga, Literacy, and Children." http://anime.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5565〕 Snodgrass is an amateur artist who does not make a living from her online strip.〔(Ushicon Panels - 2003 )〕 In August 2007, Snodgrass branched out with a spin-off comic set in the Beauty Man Garden, a fictional chain of restaurants in ''Okashina Okashi''. The comic was called ''Mini BMG''. This attempt at another comic "fizzled pretty quickly" but Snodgrass hopes to relaunch it someday, hoping "to plan better and have more comics done."〔Snodgrass, Emily. (Happy (late) Thanksgiving ^^;; )〕 ==Plot== A group of strangers are sucked into the alternate universe of UberTokyo. They must try to find a way home by using plotholes to teleport between dimensional realms. Each realm is stated by characters to be a parody of a given genre of anime/manga or video games, such as sports, sentai, fantasy, and horror. The comic archives are split into several distinct story arcs, called "Lands," each representing the world being visited in that arc. Known lands include: * Amazon Land * Shōjo Land * Pr0n Land * Space Drama Land * Sports Land * RPG Land * Monster Bear Land * Dream Land * Mahou Shōjo Land The lands are generally unrelated to each other, though some characters do appear in different lands (ex. a group of winged men from Space Drama Land playing as a Killer Croquet team in the Sports Land). Also, alternate universe versions of main characters, such as Yamichi and Minami, have appeared. Recurring plot points in the series involve the ''Beauty Man Garden'', a restaurant chain where all the waiters are bishounen and wear only extremely short aprons; a pair of cat boys, Spike and V, who monitor the group's progress from afar; and the schemes of Evil Overload Kerisu, the series' main antagonist, who wants the female main characters to serve as his groupies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Okashina Okashi – Strange Candy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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