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Anime and Local/ Global Identity, Postwar Period, Atomic Bomb - Coggle…

- - - - The increasing domination of the global film market by Hollywood as the most salient economic reality in anime's development
      - Excellent Japanese films are forced to compete for market share against a flood of American
        
        Exception to this situation:
        
        1988 Akira beat out Return of the Jedi to become number one film in Japan
        
        Princess Mononoke became the number one film in Japanese box-office history
  - - - their variety of subject matter: manga cover a dazzling range of topics: child-oriented fare. etiquette journals, etc.
      - The second reason behind manga's influential role contemporary society springs from the first
        
        the wide range of manga ensures that virtually everyone reads them
        
        40% of material published in Japan is in manga form
  - - - the distinctive cuts, which rely on the viewer's imagination to move the animated story along, undoubted come from the unique manga form of visual narration that is different from Western comics
- - - - Bubble as model for other developing countries
  - - - forms the basis of the popular culture in Japan. This primitive, often obscene, frequently violet side of Japanese culture has persisted to this day despite the frequent disapproval of its raunchier manifestations
  - - - contemporary Japanese society shows a strong consciousness of the "vanishing" of many links with tradition, and it is consequently not surprising that some of the greatest works of postwar culture are seen as elegiac
- - - - No longer purely Japan
    - - Disney Lion King and Kimba the White Lion
      - Toy Story and inspiration from Miyazaki Hayao
    - - content of anime is inevitably culturally specific like may anime comedies are set at school since education is one of the major pivots around with Japanese society revolves
      - Many anime use Japanese historical setting as material
      - Culturally specific would depend on genres, although, many science fiction anime contain significant elements related to contemporary Japanese issues
      - It is easy for non-Japanese viewer to note the characters in anime often do not look particularly Japanese
        
        Participate in "nonculturally specific" anime style
  - - - This stands in strong contrast to the neutral and abstract mukokuseki
    - - Virtually all anime contain some Japanese references
        
        Psychology
        
        Aesthetics to history