Japanese Manga

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Japanese Manga Anime Does Art Imitate Life?
Quotes Taken from The University of Michigans
That Anime Project
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Origins

• 6th -7th Century Buddhist scrolls
• 17th-18th Century woodblock prints
• (ukiyo-e)
• 17th -18th Century yellow covers
• (kibyoushi)

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Hokusai (1760-1849)

• Landscape artist
• Coined the term manga (whimsical pictures)

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Western Influence in the 19th and 20th Century

• The Yellow Kid
• Walt Disney
• Propaganda

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Osamu Tezuka The Father of Manga and Anime

• Post WW II era
• 1947 New Treasure Island (Shintakarajima)
• 1951 Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu)

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Evidence of Spirituality

• Sailor Mars (Raye) in Sailor Moon
• Li-kun in Card Captor Sakura

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Evidence of Spirituality

• In My Neighbor Totoro, Satsuki and Mei are
  two Japanese children who discover the joys of
  rural living as they befriend the Totoros--cuddly
  forest gods--and deal with their mother's
  recovery from illness.

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Evidence of Spirituality

• This landmark series Neon Genesis Evangelion
  chronicles the transformation of a boy--Shinji
  Ikari--from selfishness to a kind of heroism, set
  against a backdrop of post-nuclear
  Judeo-Christian (sorta) apocalypse. Heavy
  emphasis on cosmology, giant robot battles, and
  personal responsibility.

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Its Not Easy Being Young

• Battle Athletes follows the life of Akari
  Kanzaki, a young girl yearning to win the title
  of Cosmic Beauty - a competition held in space to
  determine the most athletic woman in the galaxy.
  Akari must live up to her mother's legacy who was
  a three time Cosmic Beauty and a role model for
  all the young women in the series.

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Its Not Easy Being Young

• In order to get into college, Japanese students
  have to take intense comprehensive entrance
  exams similar to the SAT, but cover a wider
  range of subjects, are much harder, and more of a
  determining factor in one's admittance to a
  schoolIf a student fails his/her exams, they
  don't go to college. It's that simple.
  Consequently, entrance exams are a stressful part
  of student life. The first episodes of Maison
  Ikkoku follow Godai-san, a ronin that has
  failed his entrance exams the year preceding the
  story, and his battle to study for college
  entrance exams.

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Barefoot Gen (Hidashi no Gen)Written by Keiji
NakazawaDirected by Mori Masaki1983

• Gen loses his brother, sister, and father to
  the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima during World
  War II. He and his mother struggle to survive in
  the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust. This
  film, based on a semi-autobiographical series of
  manga, is one of the best movies about the
  Pacific War ever made.

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Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru No Haka)Written
and Directed by Isao TakahataBased on a Novel by
Akiyuki Nosaka1988

• Seita and his little sister Setsuko lose their
  parents in the war. Seita struggles to keep
  Setsuko happy, though it means angering his
  paternal aunt, who took them in. When they end up
  on their own, Seita thinks all will be well, but
  how can he take care of Setsuko when he can
  barely take care of himself?