Western Animated by Japanese culture

Japs westernised Culture

Manga is a word used in Japanese culture which means comics, a style developed during the late 19^th century. Despite its long and complex history of Japanese art, it has influenced the western culture on a vast scale.

Western Style	Japanese Style
Design for and read by kids	Read by the young and old
Rarely depicts death	Sometimes depicts death
Enforces readers to worship protagonists	Allows the reader to sympathize with the protagonists
Simple portrayal of technology	Extensive portrayal of technology
Men and women are extremely exaggerated by their gender stereotypes	Men and women aren’t extremely exaggerated by the gender stereotypes
More emphasis on the hero	Less emphasis on the hero
Vary in plots and stories	Complete and detailed worlds like Novels
Characters are not consistent	Characters are consistent and allow development and growth
Good vs. Evil	Spiritual awareness
To be continued	Tendencies to end

Japan changed how the rest of the world sees and draws cartoons. Raised the standard of animation at all time high globally, it is even said that American anime productions are always finalized in Japan before aired or produced fully for the final and crisp touch ups. Their exaggeration of physical appearance helps make a character’s personality stand out. Major American manga such as The boondocks, Afro Samurai, Justice League and The Avengers are titans to the western culture but overwhelmed globally to Japans- Dragon ballZ, Bleach, One Piece and personal favourite Naruto!

Manga/anime examples:

That was and still is western culture. Less detailed sketches and drawing of simplified character designs comically and screenplay. They use a very high contrast in colour usage their females are more physically define when it comes to heroines. And you can pick up Japanese traits of fighting styles and environmental detail. However this work is always inked before being digitised.

These are some of the praised Japanese animations which excel beyond story-telling and detail aired in the western networks. They enjoy mixing traditional styles to help amplify the digital designed comics and onscreens. They commonly rely on their bodies scaled at the rate of 6 heads in height.

Otaku refers to another house or another family, today the term is modernised  to state a geek or fan which specialises with Japanese anime/manga, lol me as well as with its culture. We westerners note only drawn inspiration but stylization to our own productions such as Astro boy and billionaire campaigns like pokemon still aire to this day. The culture which started in Japan is shared annually in the modern world since the 1990s. The first convention centres were called A-kon, Ainme Expo and Otakon which display artists, directors, musicians and fans dressing up as fictional favourite characters on awesome support to the anime world.

Kawaii is a term based on the context Japanese culture as being cute, adorable, charming, loving and innocent. Today it is more on being defined as cool and groovy. It has influence not only manga but fasion and accessories beyond the borders of Japan especially in the western culture having a rare occasion of such materials at its disposal.

            

The crave for this culture just doesn’t stop by the catwalk, with American artists like Gwen, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Katty Perry are self-professsed fans to its dynamic field. The biggest celebration to the culture took place in UK during the 25^th-27^th July as the HYPER KAWAII which featured an extensive part of more stalls and shows dedicated to Japa’s most favourite exports, thus leaving the streets fashionably colourful.

http://www.mangareader.net/google/

http://www.anime.about.com/od/animeprimer/a/What-Is-Anime.htm

http://www.myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1161461

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otaku

http://www.manga.about.com/od/glossary/g/otaku.htm

Exercise 1

Brief descriptions

Zeitgeist- Is the general trend or movement of thought from a particular period        in time. It is a German word, which means the spirit of time, similar to an ideal shift at set through movement. Famous examples would be off England during 1850s-1880s victorian period in belief of industrial progress, profit and U.S. through the ideal use of money power during 1980s.

Utopia- It is an imaginary designed or ideal world of ones concept, dealing with laws and social conditions. In Morris sense, his ideal system of opposing industrial revolution was highly unrealistic and seemed to be evolved in shortly after his passing during the victorian era leading towards the early renaissance period of modernism.

 

Utopian views of design through a Zeitgeist movement
Utopian writing has a wide range within politics, science and literature, creating a unique resource during the 19^th century society. This texts style offered creative interpretation off 19^th century through contemporary writers developing insight to modern researchers about the culture. William Morris (News from Nowhere) is an example of utopian writing off the Victorian era. His texts were far from the typical works during that time as most utopias didn’t deal with the revival of middle ages-medieval ethos, but relied on future discoveries of scientific and socialism to improve society and unity amongst artists.
These early styles of utopias were too idealistic where all society evils are considered to be removed.  An early example would be the (Plato and Cicero) of philosophical argument and those of a more specific focus would be feminist utopias such as (Charlotte Perkin’s Gilman Herland), religious utopias (St. Augustine’s City of God) and an ecological utopia of (Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia).

In terms of the zeitgeist movement, the Venus project was started to overcome the lack of sustainability across the world to create new values and methods before earth reach its limit, unlike in the Victorian period where it was a movement of similar motives but opposing industrial revolution and artistic production as well as believing in only using local materials to produce hand-made crafts and paintings/photos. Basically although Jacque Fresco believed in world collaboration and W. Morris sort to found identity in uniqueness of the movement governed by nature, they both desired an eco-friendly environment of equal profit to communism, they were regarded as highly impractical ideals too many ages off their time. So in essence…modern art was founded by the very man who got too caught up in the past to reach his ideal society and standard of living.