Japan 313: Manga, Anime and Modern Japanese
Manga, Anime & Modern Japan, Reality of an Illusion. This class uses Japanese manga cartoons and Anime movies as modern mirrors that reflect the Japanese experience of rapid economic and social transformation over the past 150 years. From ancient Japanese styles of visual expression, this course traces how popular visual texts such as Manga and Anime sketch out a parallel world linked both historically and culturally to the imagined community of the Japanese nation-state. Taught in English
JAPN 313: Manga, Anime and Modern Japan is the final requirement to the 4 english taught culture requirements. This class, like its title hints, analyzes Japan’s very popular Anime and manga. Within this class we studied many aspects of manga and anime, discussing specifically the reasons why it’s important to Japanese culture. Discussing and analyzing Modern culture in Japan, I feel, helps us understand the direction that current Japanese culture is progressing in; thus helps understand more about the culture.
At the end of this course we were given two choices for a final, the first choice was to create a manga, and the second was to choose a few anime shows, discuss them and analyze them. In the paper that I uploaded below, I chose to analyze five different anime within the “school” based genre. My premise was that through Japanese anime we can see many different life lesson’s as well as many aspects of Japanese culture. Through my analysis, I discusses, analyzed and connected the anime’s plot lines back to aspects of Japanese culture. This, in-turn, helped me understand the importance of Japanese anime and Manga in the continuance of Japanese cultural beliefs as well as the development of youth. By analyzing Manga and Anime, we are capable of seeing that it not just serves as entertainment, but is also important to instilling values of respect, hard work and discipline in difficult situations. An aspect of Japanese culture that I feel is very important, and would otherwise go overlooked by many foreigners.
I would like to continue looking at anime as both entertainment and as an aspect of cultural continuation. I think it would be interesting to see in five years if Anime and manga with in this same genre still contain the same sorts of plot lines and life lessons.
At the end of this course we were given two choices for a final, the first choice was to create a manga, and the second was to choose a few anime shows, discuss them and analyze them. In the paper that I uploaded below, I chose to analyze five different anime within the “school” based genre. My premise was that through Japanese anime we can see many different life lesson’s as well as many aspects of Japanese culture. Through my analysis, I discusses, analyzed and connected the anime’s plot lines back to aspects of Japanese culture. This, in-turn, helped me understand the importance of Japanese anime and Manga in the continuance of Japanese cultural beliefs as well as the development of youth. By analyzing Manga and Anime, we are capable of seeing that it not just serves as entertainment, but is also important to instilling values of respect, hard work and discipline in difficult situations. An aspect of Japanese culture that I feel is very important, and would otherwise go overlooked by many foreigners.
I would like to continue looking at anime as both entertainment and as an aspect of cultural continuation. I think it would be interesting to see in five years if Anime and manga with in this same genre still contain the same sorts of plot lines and life lessons.
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