Anime Research Papers Samples For Students

Animation is not truthful; in fact it can be summed up as a deceptive way of entertaining people. This is so because it is generally a rapid sequence of purely still images put together in order to give an illusion of movement. It is a human creation that can even be seen as a trick that eyes play on an individual but gets some form of interpretation in the human mind. It is important to understand it from this perspective otherwise comparing and contrasting American animation and Japanese animation also known as anime will not make sense at all. Both of them are ...

Abstract

Yuri Kochiyama is a civil right activist who was born in 1921 in San Pedro, in California. He lived and stayed in San Pedro where she was involved with several activities such as sport and article writing. Her father was arrested and put in prison as a war prisoner. The father died a day after leaving prison due to sickness. She was married by Bill Kochiyama who was a Nisei Soldier, and they had six children. Yuri was engaged in many civil right movements some fighting for the rights of Japanese as well as the rights for the black people in the United ...

The term “manga” refers to Japanese comics or comics written in the Japanese language with the use of specific Japanese style. Nowadays, the manga is popular not only in Japan but also all over the world. With the growth of the international popularity, it often becomes the object of condemnation due to its sensitive content. This paper aims to study the development of manga and the roles it has played in society at different times. During its history, the manga was mostly used for political mockery, but through the years, it became more diversified and started to be the ...

In the contemporary society, manga or the Japanese visual novels became an integral part of propagating Japanese culture to broad audiences. The 1990s sparked an immense distribution of Japanese animation throughout the world. Even so, the manga published by the Japanese companies such as Shueisha and Kodansha became a high-valued commodity for all the ‘otaku’ fans in Japan and abroad. With the advent of the internet in the 2000s, these mangas became widely distributed amongst websites and even downloadable through scanlations made by the fans. One of the best mangas known throughout the world was the Rurouni Kenshin or ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

Cyberpunk combines futuristic ideas about human nature and technology to provide a new perspective on complex subjects ("Cyberpunk Review"). Film is a great avenue for this cyberpunk perspective! With the use of special effects, CGI, animation, and talented actors/directors a futuristic world can come alive to the viewer through cinema. By taking a look at films that fall within the cyberpunk genre, not only are we usually entertained but also intrigued with psychological dilemma. The films “Ghost in the Shell”, “Blade Runner”, and “Metropolis” are all great examples of how issues such as humanity, identity, and technological progression can be conveyed through science ...

History and culture have always been going hand in hand creating rich material for the unique art. А three thousand year old Japanese history of development gave its birth to various types of arts, starting from ancient pottery, sculpture, painting and carving and ending with contemporary Japanese cartoons, anime and manga, which gained millions of admirers. But let’s start if not from the very beginning, but at least from the first distinctly outlined period in the history of Japanese art – the Muromachi period (1392-1573).
The beginning of the art era is marked by the Ashikaga family having occupied ...

Mikhail Gorbachez is a well known former and last President of former USSR. He was the Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (1985-1991) and the last President of USSR since 1988 to his resignation and the dissolution of USSR in 1991. He is a holder of a Nobel Peace Prize (1990) for his work in the peace process. Together with Bill Clinton, he received a Grammy Award for the Best Spoken Word Album for Children in the recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. In 1995, he released his autobiography in Germany and in the United States of America in ...

Business Case Analysis

“Toys“R”Us, Inc. is the world’s leading dedicated toy and baby products retailer” (About TRU). It has more than 1800 stores in the United States and other 37 countries worldwide.
The history of the company began in 1948 when Charles Lazarus started his business as a baby-furniture retailer and opened Children’s Bargain Town, in Washington, D.C.
In 1958 the store was given a new name - Toys“R”Us. In the same year a second store was opened and “a supermarket model” was adopted. Since than people were able to choose products themselves and “pay for ...

The Cold War was a global confrontation between the two military and political blocs led by the Soviet Union and the United States, which did not come down to an open military conflict. The concept of the "cold war" appeared in journalism in 1945-1947 and gradually stuck in the political dictionary.
After the Second World War, the world was actually divided into the spheres of influence of two blocks with different social systems. The Soviet Union and the United States have sought to expand their spheres of influence. But the rough equality of forces between the blocks, and then ...

Did Beatle­-Mania’s influence on Soviet teenagers contribute to the fall of the Iron Curtain? An argument can be made that Gorbachev’s opening up to the West through glasnost and perestroika was the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union. However, due to the overwhelming evidence of an underground musical movement amongst the Soviet youth, the demands of a disillusioned youth were the catalysts for these reforms. With this taken into consideration, a major change in the political landscape of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy may be observed through three stages, initial distribution, Soviet push back, ...

Analysis of Asian Horror Movies

The first movie I would like to analyze is a South Korean horror-thriller movie “Old Boy”, directed by Park Chan-Wook, that was first released in 2003. The storyline is based on a poorly-known Japanese manga of the same name, written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. This movie is a part of a trilogy called “Vengeance Trilogy” together with “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” and “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance”. “Old Boy” won the so called “Grand Prix”(the second award in order of importance) during the Cannes Film Festival, receiving also a special mention by Quentin Tarantino (president of the Jury).
The impact of ...