Osamu Tezuka

The concept of power and what it means to be powerful and powerless is explored greatly in the manga Buddha by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka explores the life of Siddhartha in his manga and the trials that he faced in order to come into being as the Buddha. What Buddha vol. 3 shows people struggling through life with the caste system and their place in it to the inescapable fate of death. In the manga we are shown people try to overcome their struggles with pure power but ultimately suffer defeat. Yatala’s father tries to break the cycle of the shudra life for his son through physical strength and Siddhartha tries to combat death through knowledge and training. But in the end both figures find that it is not power that makes them powerful. The…

The movie “The legend of price rama” it’s different than other animated movies, this movie have a different culture and a different story which is more exciting to watch and learn about different cultures. This film was made as a part of the 40th commemoration of India-Japan political relations and was taken a shot at by groups from both nations. It was released in the United States. The movie talks about a Royal family which is Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, had three wives and four sons.…

Hayao Miyazaki, an influential Japanese film director who has produced animated films that still remain popular both in Japan and worldwide. Throughout this essay, one of his most famous animated films “My Neighbor Totoro” will be discussed, exploring the religious elements used in the film, based on a comparison of Shinto and Buddhism. This should help us understand how Miyazaki delivers the message that nature is sacred. To understand the religious elements of the film, we should discuss the…

When you see different TV shows and movies, you tend to notice that they look different. Why does Gumby look different from Bambi? It narrows down to the animation. Films look different because of the style; it differs from artist to artist. Popular varieties include anime, CGI, 2D animation, stop-motion, Paint-on-Glass, and the list goes on. There are several kinds of animation, but the fundamental styles are drawn, cutout, stop motion, and computer. Drawn animation “is a sequence of drawings…

there would be no story, or it would be unrecognizable from what it is. Noragami, written by two authors under the pen name Adachitoka, is about a kami named Yato and a young girl named Hiyori who ends up becoming close to him and other kami that she meets. Most of the kami are based off of well-known and popular kami, like Ebisu and Tenjin, and one of the major conflicts is that Yato is not well-known or even heard of. The fact that most of the characters in the manga are either kami or spirits…

Japanese creators have the uncanny ability of making nonsensical and preposterous themes and notions seem coherent and in the process, creating very entertaining titles. This tendency becomes more evident in some of the anime series of the latestt years, as the "Monogatari" series, "Kill La Kill" and "Assassination Classroom." "One Punch Man is a distinct example of the tendency. The anime is based on the homonymous, ongoing web comic by One, which begun publication in 2009. In 2012, Viz Media…

The rise of popularity of Japanese and Korean culture in the U.S. has affected a great many things in American culture. These cultures have even begun to infiltrate the U.S.'s largest medium of pop culture: media. Korean pop music has taken over international music charts and is holding one of the largest fan bases in America. Korea has as well started a new trend of watching their dramas, not on TV, but through the growing industry of streaming websites. All the while Japan is steadily taking…

Letter 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…

10. Paranoia Agent (2004) Satoshi Kon was so content with his cooperation with Madhouse that immediately after the end of producing Tokyo Godfathers, he proposed to shoot a TV anime series. The script would be based upon a few of his concepts, which he had not used before, as much as upon newspapers' headlines, particularly their crime and social ones. The leadership of the company accepted, thus initiating the creation of the 13 episodes of Paranoia Agent. A series of attacks occur in Tokyo,…

InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass is my 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…