Anime industry

Over the past few years I have grown to better appreciate the world of film. I love watching movies from countries all over the globe. One of my favorite genera’s of film is animation, or anime. Debatably the best animation film director of all time is Hayao Miyazaki. Central Argument/ Thesis In the article Animating child activism: Environmentalism and Class Politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992), Michelle J. Smith and Elizabeth Parsons compare…

Intro: My family and I have always loved the Nancy Drew books and computer games. One, of the adventure games in particular, had a significant influence on me. Shadow at the water's edge; the setting was Japan. The game gave you a look into the traditions and present-day culture. I was obsessed. There was fashion, foreign language, and an intriguing culture I knew nothing about. Immediately my computer desktop was flooded with pictures and links. This is where it all began. Japan would be a part…

Anime started in the small island nation of Japan and is now widely distributed across the globe, influencing large animation companies across many different countries. A large amount of movies, T.V. shows, and comic books Americans read are heavily influenced by Japanese animation. Despite starting out as a propaganda film, many people would find it surprising how popular anime is today. Anime started as black and white propaganda films for WWII. Today anime is in color, often using CGI…

The reclarification of Cosplay as nonviolent has a lot to do with the interactions of these players and how social media views their hobbies. Chairiyani, Herawati, &, Widayanti, (2017) suggests that Cosplayers community is ‘’The world is surrounded by fantasies, different values, and different norms’’. However, Cosplay reality is interpreted by mass media as a consumption of theoretical ideas. To change the social idealistic of Cosplay as a nonviolent deviant act, society must view them as…

This image was taken at the 2009 LBZ convention in London, and is of a group of people who are cosplaying as characters from the anime Hellsing. Cosplay is a term that means to dress up or role play, usually as characters from an anime, manga, or a book. In Laura Collins essay backpacks vs briefcases, she goes into how an important part of rhetorical analysis is its context (Collins). She says this because to be able to analyze something you must be able to understand it. The context is what…

Religion is prevalent in many aspects of Japanese culture, even in pop culture. Specifically, religious themes and aesthetics are common in manga, Japanese graphic novels and comic books, or anime, which are animated movies and television shows commonly based on manga. Religion can be weaved into these mediums in various ways to create different effects. For example, religion can be used solely for cosmetic effect, or the story itself could be centered around religion as a plot device. Depending…

to Masahashi Kishimoto by Daniel Chen 2-4 Backstory: Masahashi Kishimoto is the author of Naruto. He is Japanese Manga artist (Japanese graphic novelist) who created the storyline of the Naruto world which has been adapted into an anime, or “animated series”. The anime ran between 2002 till 2017 for fifteen years spanning over seven hundred episodes along with a few movies. Naruto is based in a ninja world where people can manipulate their “chakra” or energy to exercise superpower-like abilities…

all-time favorite movie. It is an anime (short for Japanese animation) with romance, action, and fantasy. The second movie in the InuYasha series, yet this movie is animated from the manga not the television show. It holds so dear to me because it helped cultivate my love of anime. InuYasha tackles feelings of uncertainty about the future, healing after family wounds, how to move on from family addictions and loneliness. InuYasha happens to be my favorite anime as well because it’s strong themes…

20. Death Note (Shusuke Kaneto, 2006) Based on the homonymous manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, "Death Note" is the most commercially successful title of the list having spawned video games, light novels, an anime series, a two-part film, a spin-off movie, while a new film is scheduled to screen this October. This entry is for the first two films. The story follows Yagami Light, a student who discovers a notebook, that when someone writes a name of someone in it, this individual dies…

With the expand popularization of the computer and laptop as well as the growth of the digital technologies, there are much more innovation about/on the sound and image editing which provide people with grand possibilities and easier approaches on manipulating other people’s voices and images. One of the approaches is called “digital ventriloquism”. However, as most of the technological approaches, “digital ventriloquism” contains various branches due to the different degrees of the replacing or…