Osamu Dazai

He mentions how suicide by drowning is famous. As said in the translator notes, it has something to do with one of Kafka's short stories but actually there's another source that could be referenced. That is the famous Japanese literature author Dazai Osamu, when he died by drowning himself. Hide comes in with his lecturing. Telling Kaneki about these things he said and how much this displays the

One of the major themes of Osamu Dazai’s The Setting Sun is the socioeconomic fall of aristocracy in Japan following World War II. The title itself reflects these core themes: when the Japanese write down the name of their home country in Kanji (one of its three alphabets), it  roughly means “land of the rising sun”. The Setting Sun is an allegory that the glory days of Japan have come to an end, specifically their ancient aristocracy and their old families, as well as Japanese culture. The comfortable

the two have a conversation centered around Naoji and their fears of his demise (Dazai, 9). Kazuko, in an attempt to comfort her mother, quips that only good people die early, and because he is such a scoundrel, Naoji is not dead. The focus is placed on Kazuko by her mother, however, who jokes that she will therefore die an early death, but Kazuko responds seriously with, “Why should I? I’m bad and ugly both” (Dazai, 10). She is explicitly unsatisfied with her personal behavior and appearance, indicating

As one of Japan’s most celebrated authors of the Post War Era, Osamu Dazai’s work, as well as his own life, has been examined and analyzed by countless students and researchers from multiple perspectives. Many such readers find themselves fascinated by the symbolism Dazai employed in his novels to express his views on cultural, socioeconomic, and even feministic issues that plagued his conscious mind. Kazuko, the main character and narrator of The Setting Sun (1947, translated in 1956 by Donald Keene)

Over the years, Japanese animation have gain more attention from the public than before. Japanese animation, also widely known as anime, dominates most of the animation that exists in today’s media. Much of its popularity originates from Studio Ghibli’s movies and classics, such as Astro Boy, One Piece, and Pokémon. These anime movies and series allowed anime to gain attention from the world as it revealed a different level of animation. However, anime was not at first well received by the Japanese

Arianna Dagnino in her essay Transcultural Literature and Contemporary World Literature points out that “with the denationalizing wave of globalization, even national literatures are under pressure to find new arrangements of form and content to adapt to a changed cultural and social paradigm. In other words, a mutation is under way within the global acumen of letters where new notions of belonging, as well as definitions of selfhood and identity are externalized through new creative artistic and

Pocky, Anime, manga, kanji. Have you heard of any of these? If not… where have you been? All around us teenagers, children, and even adults are being drawn into Japanese culture through TV, books, and even food. Japanese comics, called manga, take up more and more space on American bookshelves, and they've infused new life into the publishing industry. Japanese animation, anime, is on more and more movies and TV screens and influencing popular toys and games. Before the 80’s when people thought

Manga and Anime Research Paper Anime and manga have been around for many centuries and originated in Japan. Though anime and manga were not once considered as just comics or cartoon shows, but rather as scrolls that shared a message or even paintings that depicted salacious activities that were for adults. Nowadays anime and manga are loved for the flashy and dramatic action scenes that take place within the story, and even the characters of the story. People love anime and manga because they can

Everyone knows each project has a process no matter how long or short it may be, with that said this will be a deep analysis on my project: Anime in America. I chose a topic revolving around anime mainly because I watch it and I wanted to do my project on something I found interesting. Another reason for my choice in topics is because I already knew about some of the things revolving around my thesis, my thesis being how America’s encounter resulted in a sanitized, non-stereotyped and easily accessible

The most popular genre of anime is science fiction, a genre that regularly explores futuristic apocalyptic scenarios. Apocalyptic anime has been influenced by several factors, such as Japanese environmental disasters like the contamination of Minamata Bay, aesthetic elements like mono no aware, religious imagery, and economic crises. In this essay, I will be focusing on how the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 have influenced apocalyptic anime, specifically Akira and