Osamu Tezuka

and the manga “Astro Boy” created by Tezuka Osamu was the most famous manga in that time period. His manga has inspired lots of new manga artists, with the quick growth of printing industry and publishing house, Japan grew into a huge manga kingdom. And during the World War 2, the America soldiers have bought the culture of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse into Japan, and this made the character style in Japan became more diversify. In 1960s, the manga of Tezuka Osamu, Fujio Akatsuka and Fujiko Fujio were

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

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

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

Patria Anime Squad Mission Statement: The Patria Anime Squad’s mission is to provide the opportunity for those who enjoy watching anime and reading manga a social group in which one can meet new people and share their stories. We seek to teach our new members about the culture of Japan, the process of creating animation, the origins of Anime as a genre, and build self esteem for those who are too shy to speak about their passions in a safe and comfortable environment. Vision of the Club: The

Anime films are cartoons, usually from Japan, with adult subject matter. Despite the prevailing American view that cartoons are for children, Japanese view anime as a legitimate art form that is appropriate for adult viewing. Anime subjects vary widely from soap opera drama, to medieval adventures, comedy and to science fiction. The fist anime ever televised was Tetsuwan Atomu it came out In 1963 as a television series. The english name for Tetsuwan Atomu was Astroboy . The next hit anime was Speed

Tezuka is the oldest of three children in, Osaka. His nickname is 'gashagash-atama'.later on in his life, he gave his mother's inspiring confidence and creativity credit. She often took him to the Takarazuka Theater, the theater is often a full music. Their He said he had a deep "nostalgic spirit" on the grave. When Tezuka was young, his father showed him the Disney movie; he became obsessed with the film and began to copy them. He also became a Disney movie fan, many times to watch movies, the most

In Japan, the industry of animation is one of the major electronic industries that represent modern Japanese pop-culture. “Iyashikei Anime”, in Japanese, 癒し系アニメ, is one of the terms that is created from a Japanese Anime culture same as the word like Otaku, in Japanese, オタク, and Moe, in Japanese, 萌え(日本アニメから見る癒し系文化――『夏目友人帳』を中心に, http://www.lag-8.com). In this essay, I will go to discuss about Iyashikei culture’s embodiment in anime by using one of the famous Iyashikei anime and manga, “Natsume’s Book

After have dinner with a group of illustrator friends, posters on street inadvertently grabs my attention. Walking on a familiar path to home, I see posters are secretly glued on coner of wall, showed on large screen at side of street, passing around like booklet... if every poster stands for an event, then it is surprising to notice such many events are silently on going around me. My major is animation, so my first though on illustration is that: posters are still frame picture with better detail