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On her way to school, Suzume rushes down the mountain road on her bikeand encounters Souta, a young man in search of a door. The 17-year-old high school student is immediately drawn to the mysterious stranger.Later, she finds out that he is traveling to abandoned places across Japanto find and lock doors to prevent a giantsupernatural wormfrom causing earthquakes.The two join forces to lock doors and keep the terrifying creature at bay.
In his latest visually stunning film, director and screenwriter Makoto Shinkai explores the social effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The anime came to Japanese cinemas last November and became a box office hit, becoming the country's fourth highest-grossing film of 2022. The movie competed at the Berlinale last February and premieres in German cinemas on April 13. It will be released in the USA and several other European countries on April 14.
Like Shinkai's other works, Your Nameand Weathering With You, it is a coming-of-age story. We learn that Suzume lost her mother in the 2011 Fukushimanuclear disaster. Raised by her aunt, she repressed the trauma of her mother's death.
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Suzume flaunts her long shiny hair during her journey to self-discovery.She has elegant features and an impossibly slender figure. The same goes for her handsome counterpart. Even her aunt Tamaki looks like a teenager. The film fulfills clichédbeauty ideals.
In these big, expensive productions, questioning whatappeals to the masses is inevitable, says Katharina Hülsmann, a research assistant in Japanese studies at the University of Cologne.
Her research includes transcultural phenomena in manga and representations of gender and sexuality. Yet the beauty ideals seen in Suzumeare not always found in the genre. Manga usually have a stronger subversive potential because there's not so much pressure to succeed in a single release, saysHülsmann.
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The Japanese comic scene has helpedbreak down classic gender roles and is celebrated worlide for Its androgynous characters who have challengedtraditional images of macho men and women as accessories. They combat the traditional gender and family rolesthat are stillprevalent in Japanese society.
Hülsmann explains that in comics released in Europe or the United States, female characters typically only as accessories to the story: Psychological themes, self-discovery, growing up, or being bullied did not appear in them. In this aspect, Manga culture has taken on a pioneering role.
Manga has been published in Japanese magazines since the 20th century. It is popular with girls and boys alike, though there is strict gender separation within the genre: Shōnen (boy)manga targetsmale audiences, whileShōjo (girl) targets young women.
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In the 1950s, story manga — a new style of manga —became popular. The pioneer of this new style was manga artist Osamu Tezuka, referred to as the the Godfather of Manga. His series Princess Knight, (1953-1956), is among the first Shōjo manga.The Shōjo were also originally drawn by men, explains Katharina Hülsmann.
It wasn't until the 1970s that also women began drawing manga. They revolutionized the genre, says Hülsmann, mentioning female illustrators such as Moto Hagio and later Rumiko Takahashi. They played with gender roles and created more creative comic panel boxes. Male editors vehemently criticized this until it became apparent that the stories and characters were also well-received by boys.
At the time, Western pop culture was also challenging typical gender roles; David Bowie appeared as the androgynous art figure Ziggy Stardust, whilein glam rock, bands made sexual ambiguity part of their style. The glam rock aesthetic definitely influenced manga culture, says Katharina Hülsmann. Female cartoonists increasingly used homoeroticism as a motif in the 1970s, she says.
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These days, the strict separation between Shōjo and Shōnen is more flexible. Boys can enjoy Shōjo manga and vice versa. There has long been a variety of manga and anime for adults, and the international success of Japanese pop culture has also contributed to this. More than 100 anime series and films are currently available on Netflix alone. Conversely, globalization —and with it the viewing habits of other cultures and countries —has also promoted awareness of strong female charactersin Japan.
Suzume, too, quickly evolves from a shy teenager following hercrushto a leader who asserts herself. This development, however, is nearly overshadowed by a beauty image that the advertising industry and fashion shows could be proud of — the size 0 heroine with a flawless complexion.
Early mangakas (manga artists) based their figure drawings on fashion sketches, and their style was also inspired by art nouveau, explains Hülsmann. These depictions have survived to this day, rendering a fantasy, an idealized image. While manga serieslike Wandering Son now focus on transgender characters, old rules still apply in a big-budget feature film targeting a broad audience says Hülsmann: A female main character is allowed to be the heroine, but she should also look good.Cultural flows between nations are extremely interesting phenomena. They represent the inter-connectedness of our world and the people who inhabit it while also providing alternate channels for nations to exert “influence” outside of typical economic, political, or military spheres. This type of cultural clout, often termed “soft power” to distinguish it from the “hard power” type of stuff listed previously, is a really cool way to look at international relations, especially for anime fans such as ourselves who are very much in the midst of this type of thing. More importantly, however, soft power is in fact in fact the largest type of exposure a great majority of Americans (and perhaps most nations) actually receive from other nations. Many more of us, for instance, watch shows like Doctor Who or Sherlock than keep up to date with British politics and international relations. We form our opinions based on scattered memories and experiences, encounters with strangers and small snippets of news articles we skim over while browsing the web. Most of the time, we don’t bother getting to the bottom of things, or investigating the details behind what we’re reading: the information we get is crudely processed into an image, an association, between a country, it’s people, and other things we know. Why exactly are Pope Francis‘s actions able to drastically change the image of an organization of the Catholic Church in the span of only a year? Why does anime and otaku culture exert such a strong influence over us–especially for us elitist anibloggers, for whom it’s significantly affected our lives and hobbies? How does society and culture (as well as our own psyches) lead to, strengthen, and perpetuate these influences? How do influences play off each other?
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Since I’m obsessed with anime, and since I love these types of questions, I decided to look into some of the influences present in anime itself. As anime is popular worldwide (it may make up to 50% of all cartoons broadcast worldwide, according to some estimates!) and generally regarded as a big form of Japanese soft power, noticeable influences on the genre are also simultaneously exposed to a global audience. A type of 2nd-order soft power, expressed through anime.
Which is what led me to look into the ideas of Germanic influences on anime and, by extension (somewhat), Japanese pop culture at large. For the longest time, I’ve thought that there’s been an excessive amount of German things popping up in much of the anime I watch. From the heavy use of German in magic systems (
, Fullmetal Alchemist), German-esque stuff seems to pop up everywhere I look! So, in order to get to the bottom of this, I decided to look into just what exactly might be going on here. Is it simply selective memory, or is there some wider Germanic landscape that anime draws upon–or possibly created?
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As many psychology and political science studies have shown, we tend to not be the completely rational agents that we think we are. Instead, humans function for the most part based on certain heuristics, frequently going off of personal experiences, emotions, and general sentiments rather than cold-hard facts and logical reasoning. While itself a possibly unsettling phenomenon, this style of non-rational thinking especially comes to the fore when dealing with often-polarizing topics such as politics. Soft power, then, can be an incredibly powerful tool because its main sphere of influence is precisely in this area – the conceptions and feelings around certain phenomena that people then may associate with certain nations.
When it comes to soft power, no other nation seems to get as much attention as Japan. With its inability to hold a standing army thanks to the infamous “Article 9” in its Constitution and its falling political and economic clout, Japan’s ability to exert itself in the world has been the subject of intense debate from both insiders and outsiders. It is in this climate of declining hard power, and the desire to remain a “key player” in the modern global economy, that the ideas of soft power seem hold the most sway. From the widespread popularity of the Pokémon franchise, the influence of “kawaii” culture (e.g. Hello Kitty, Tamagatchi) and the prevalence of anime in world cartoon markets, Japanese influences in popular culture seem to be as wide-ranging as they are sustaining. I don’t think it’d be an exaggeration to
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