Japanese culture. Anime and manga.
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Ishinomori Shōtarō (石ノ森 章太郎) provided the blueprint for the rewriting of history in Japanese graphic art. In Japan the hyperbole of his name ‘forest of stone’ is also synonymous with a plethora of other superlatives. Ishinomori not only... more
El presente artículo analizará la película "Liz and the Blue Bird" (2018), la cual presenta la tensión en la relación de Nozomi y Mizore, mejores amigas que deberán practicar una pieza musical que tocarán en conjunto para el concurso... more
In ninth art, hikikomori and NEET turned into a storytelling inspiration for many works: manga such as Welcome to the NHK, Mēteru no kimochi and Asano Inio’s works; in the Italian production, some examples are Zerocalcare’s works or... more
Mazinga, Goldrake, Jeeg… sono questi i robot più noti al pubblico italiano che ha iniziato a scoprire i protagonisti di queste serie animate a partire dalla fine degli anni Settanta. Ma chi c’era in precedenza? Quali personaggi sono stati... more
Japan has increasingly become a source of inspiration in many creative fields: from manga illustrations, street fashion, and contemporary art; to storytelling devices such as the 'Rashomon effect' in Hollywood movies, decluttering... more
Capitulo de Livro - Angel Beats!. In: FORTIM, I.. (Org.). Mangás, Animes e a Psicologia. 1ed.São Paulo: Homo Ludens, 2017, v. 1, p. 49-58.
This paper will be talking about the life and works of Hayao Miyazaki. It will provide an in-depth review of some of his most popular films. The review will include some important cultural values in Japan and how they are reflected in the... more
Mangás (histórias em quadrinhos) e animes (desenhos animados) japoneses são uma excelente fonte de contato com a cultura japonesa e, apesar de sua extraordinária e crescente popularidade no Ocidente, ainda são pouco considerados como... more
The popular culture of Japan draws and consolidates fans from various geographical domains and multiple backgrounds. Its engagingly rich heredity and culture is much diverse and proliferates around comics (manga), games, animation (anime)... more
This paper focuses on the manga Oyasama monogatari, produced by the new religious movement Tenrikyō on the life of its foundress, Nakayama Miki, otherwise known as Oyasama. In particular, it draws attention to Nakayama’s life as the... more
Hernández-Pérez, M. (2021). Media Contents and Fan Memories: Experience and Performance in Tourist narratives. Paper presented at the VIII - International Research Workshop “Mutual Images”. JAPAN PILGRIMAGES Experiences and motivations... more
Zizek's famous quote; a popular Japanese manga about a University club full of "slash" enthusiast females plus one cross-dressing and very confused boy who shares their enthusiasms... What is the author up to? Let us throw pop post-Lacan... more
The main objective for which I write this essay will be to make a reflection of how Japanese culture influences on Western culture and vice versa through two of its most representative artistic forms: manga and anime. To this day, there... more
Isayama Hajime’s Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan 2009–present, hereafter SnK) has gained huge resonance since its first release, a popularity by no means limited to Japan, and enhanced by the high-quality animation series by the same... more
La industria de animación japonesa ha ido evolucionando con el paso de los años a través de períodos significativos o artistas relevantes. En la actualidad, cuando se habla de animación japonesa, diferentes nombres pueden aparecer en la... more
"Return of the Demons: The Power of Kyōsai's Brush" in Manga (The British Museum exhibition), edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Matsuba Ryoko, London: Thames & Hudson, 2019, 288-297.
For the early community of Spanish otaku, manga and anime were “expressions of Japanese art,” comparable to painting and literary masterpieces.1 Their veneration of these genres, their close relation with the industry, and their influence... more
Breve analisi dell`ultimo lavoro di Miyazaki Hayao, Il bruco Boro
The manner in which manga can reflect and influence readers’ gender perceptions has been a frequently researched issue. This article is an attempt to consider those questions through language, a traditionally less-examined element, in... more
Vivid in Japanese art and imagination are creatures that are at once ghastly and humorous. The Japanese word yokai generally refers to a range of supernatural beings such as ghosts, demons, monsters, shapeshifters, tricksters, and other... more
This talk presents work in progress regarding a paper that analyses the narrative structure and tropes of "Shingeki no Kyojin" ("Attack on Titan").
Dream states, virtual identities, shadow selves, psychological deformations of space and time and many more – these are the cinematic narratives that the Japanese animator Satoshi Kon spectacularly created. When dealing with a permissive... more
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field. The volume’s twenty-one... more
As multimodal works, comics are characterized as much by their use of language as by the style of their images. Sound effects in particular are exemplary of comics’ language-use, and we explored this facet of comics by analyzing a corpus... more
Yaoi/BL Fandom Survey (only takes 10 mins to complete): https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey http://sainsbury-institute.org/news-events/legislating-manga-workshop/ This talk will explore the implications of the Prohibited... more
Yaoi/BL Fandom Survey (only takes 10 mins to complete): https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/blfandomsurvey
Interest in Japanese manga (comics) has increasingly become an important reason for studying Japanese as a second language. As a result, there has also been a trend toward trying to use manga as an educational resource, with claims that... more
It is the intent of this session to shed the spotlight on examples of Nordic-inspired medievalisms and to bring them into ongoing conversations and debates about the reception of the medieval in the post-medieval world. We are especially... more
The films of Hayao Miyazaki drink from a series of fixed and constant influences. In this article we focus on knowing the specific influences that his film Spirited Away (2001) has received in order to understand to what extent the... more
文化庁の「平成19年度国語に関する世論調査」で約45%の回答者がマンガを若者言葉に影響をもたらすものとして挙げたように,絵と言葉からなるマンガは一種の言語的メディアと一般に認知されている。しかしながら,マンガ研究の多くは視覚的要素に焦点が置かれていることが多い。ここでは,通常関心の払われることの少ない言語的要素に焦点を定めたい。... more
En este artículo se relacionan algunos de los temas que suelen movilizarse en el mejor anime contemporáneo —como los multiversos y los décadrage temporales— con una teoría del cine relacionada, a su vez, con los hologramas y el... more
Fully credible to the child’s imagination fantastic futuristic devices: The inventions of Fujiko F. Fujio is a history of the creations of Hiroshi Fujimoto for his Doraemon’s manga. This research summarize Hiroshi Fujimoto biography, as... more
In der Erzähltradition des japanischen anime ist das Konzept der künstlichen Lebensform seit jeher ein vielseitig verarbeitetes narratives Konstrukt. Anime reflektiert – neben Aspekten der realwirtschaftlich fundierten Robotik – ebenfalls... more