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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Anime"”.
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Anime as an adaptation. Anime‘s approach to the original source
Anime is a big part of Japanese culture. While some anime have original storylines, most of them are adapted from various other sources. The goal of this research is to find out how anime that are based on other sources approaches the original work. For this researched many manga and Light Novels …
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Adapting Anime: Transnational Media between Japan and the United States
This dissertation examines Japanese animation, or anime, as an example of how a contemporary media product crosses national and cultural borders and becomes globalized. Bringing together the theories of Hiroki Azuma and Susan J. Napier, it develops a theory called the "database fantasyscape" as a …
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A magyar anime szubkultúra története: A Dragon Ball-botrányól a MondoConig
… milyen kulturális változásokat hozott az anime Magyarországra. Kutatásom különösen arra éleződik ki, hogy maga a Dragon Ball, mint első meghatározó anime, milyen hatással volt fogyasztó közönségére, és továbbá milyen hatással van mai napig erre a szubkultúrára. Az animét nem csak, mint …
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Ijime patyčių vaizdavimas anime: Koe no Katachi ir Sangatsu no Raion /
… the problem is pop-culture. Books, manga and anime are those things that reaches younger people and that is one thing that could help them delve into this problem. Two anime that helped me do research about ijime in anime are Koe no Katachi and Sangatsu no Raion. Koe no Katachi is a movie that …
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Az anime-szubkultúra Magyarországon, avagy az animefanok közösségének kialakulása és fejlődése hazánkban
A szakdolgozatom a magyarországi anime-szubkultúrát mutatja be. A dolgozat elején ismertetem az anime és a manga fogalmát és eredetét. Ismertetem a szubkultúra fogalmát és működését. A szakdolgozat bemutatja, mikor jelent meg az anime Magyarországon és hogyan terjedt el. Készítettem egy kérdőíves …
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REEXAMINING AND REEVALUATING OTAKU CONSUMPTION: A POSTSTRUCTURALIST APPROACH TO SLICE-OF-LIFE ANIME
… today. Analyzing the genre of slice-of-life anime illustrates how narratives have not become subordinate to the database. Instead, narratives are created by the otaku by linking together various narrative elements extracted from anime series using the narrative database. It is these …
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The Japanimated Folktale: Analysis Concerning the Use and Adaptation of Folktale Characteristics in <i>Anime</i>
… folk tales and Japanese animation, or <em>anime</em>. In spite of the popular association between animation and adolescence, animated television series and films have a dynamic and compelling relationship with various age groups and nationalities. Additionally, <em>anime</em> and animation …
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From score to song—The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime
From the late 1980s onward, Japanese animation (anime) has increasingly been consumed as a ‘global’ product, with iconic films such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell achieving cult-like status on both the art-cinema circuit as well as via home-video releases. The 2010s have seen anime consumption …
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Protecting your eyes : censorship and moral standards of decency in Japan and the United States as reflected in children's media
Introduction: Anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comic books) are extremely popular in Japan amongst consumers of all ages. In America and other non-Japanese countries, the international anime and manga fanbase is rapidly expanding. Yet, in some Western countries such as the United …
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Relevant abuse? Investigating the effects of an abusive subtitling procedure on the perception of TV anime using eye tracker and questionnaire
… Already popular with amateur subtitlers of anime (Japanese animation), pop-up gloss has come to percolate into commercially released anime DVD. This thesis investigates the question as to what effect the use of pop-up gloss has on viewer perception of TV anime in terms of positive cognitive …
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Traumas and Recovery in Takaya Natsuki's <em>Fruits Basket</em>
… the various traumas within Takaya Natsuki’s anime series <em>Fruits Basket </em>and how the act of transformation triggers the beginnings of recovery for numerous characters. <em>Fruits Basket </em>bears striking similarities to the French fairy tale <em>Beauty and the Beast</em> (as well as …
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
… popular media, and values by using the anime-manga subculture as an example. The thesis draws from three major theorists: Thomas LaMarre, Anne Allison, and Ian Condry as well as major anthropological theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu. As an ethnography, the project was split into two …
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Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis of Femininities,Performances, and Representations
… with race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality in the anime Bleach and Samurai Champloo. I also interrogate the implications of these performances in relation to hegemonic discourses of Japanese femininity in the U.S. as submissive, deferent, incompetent, and domestic. As I explain in this document …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… readings of prose and visual media – novels, anime shows, graphic novels, and a picturebook – produced in America and Japan. Chapter 1 reads Kelly Barnhill’s novel *The Girl Who Drank the Moon* and the anime television series *Madoka Magi Puella Magica*, examining the construction of girlhood …
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The Analysis of the Shonen Protagonist and Aragoto Warrior: The Eternal Strength of Boyhood
… visual and narrative elements of Kabuki and Anime, using the example of <em>Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura</em>, and <em>One Piece</em>. There is a broad overview of both Kabuki and Anime discussing their various tropes and styles. Following this introduction is a three-part breakdown of <em>One …
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A Cosplayed Life: Subcultural Influences on Racial and Heteronormative Structures in Everyday Life
… wishes, however, it is typically performed at an anime convention. The social interactions that occurred at the cosplay conventions were ripe for sociological examination as cosplay brings together upwards of 100,000 people into one location many weekends throughout the year. The limited work …
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Virtual Worldmaking: A Phantasmal Media Approach to VRChat
… analyzes how the systemic proliferation of the “anime girl” avatar in the social VR platform VRChat reflects gendered biopolitics of power and control. Positioning contemporary social VR at a unique moment of media convergence and sociopolitical unrest, this thesis argues for more pluriversal …
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Japanese Cinema as Mass Art: An Export of Mass Cinema
… on the popularity of Japanese animation (anime), the analysis is enhanced with empirical research into online consumption groups and internet communication, given these groups’ important role in the distribution of anime outside of Japan.
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Šintoizmo vaidmuo šiuolaikinėje Japonijoje: Shinkai Makoto kūrybos analizė /
This thesis focuses on three anime films - “Your Name”, “Weathering with You”, and “Suzume”, all created by the director Shinkai Makoto. The goal of this work is to analyze the role of Shintoism in contemporary Japan, and its purpose in these three works of Shinkai Makoto. The main objectives are: …
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