A that can makes you fell fullmetal

"There is no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary, you can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle.  Yeah, a heart made fullmetal. " - Edward Elric

Work Cited

Mignonga, Vic, perf. "Journe'ys End." Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Cartoon Network: September 24th 2011. Television.

The Death Note Song: A Parody of Tik Tok

I do not own any lyrics or the song

Yes Your Highness - A Fan-made song as a Tribute to Lelouch

Song by: Shio Yee
I do not own any images or the song

TV shows to Anime

Unknown to many people, the comic company Marvel Comics and it's leader Stan Lee have been working together a lot more than any regular person might think. Stan Lee is a fan of Japanese comics and animation. He even invested his own ideas in the creation of the hit shonen manga Karakuridoji Ultimo, a story of the battle to find which force is stronger, good or evil. He also created the anime TV show Heroman, was produced and aired on Japanese televisions, but takes place in a west coast city in America. So it is not much of a leap to have Marvel Comics green light four anime series of their own, which are: Iron Man, Blade, X-men, and Wolverine.

Not only Marvel Comics, but American TV series are getting an anime-makeover. Such as the live action show Supernatural, about the Winchester brothers hunting demons. Another famous TV series for kids was the Powerpuff Girls, which was so famous it was turned into an anime called Powerpuff Girls Z. These are just a few of the ever moving and popularity growing transfers of American creativity to the masterful Japanese animation.

Research Memo 3

For the final research we had to find and examine over at least two different videos. For my first research video will be a documentary call Anime: Drawing a Revolution, in it they discuss the history of manga and anime, along with how it evolved over time in the world. The second is a music video called Genesys and Complex Show, this is a fan made rap video between two people using only rap references; to continues with that I will use an AMV (Anime Music Video), that shows ways music is and can be influenced by Japanese culture.

                For my first video, the documentary, it was produced and shown on Starz network, but can be streamed on Youtube. In this five part video series (Video 2 is unable to be watched)  they begin with a brief history of anime and manga, and a biography of the creator Osama Tezuka, in the post WW II Japan. They then move into how anime began to hit TV’s in America, along with short case studies of early anime like Transformers: Robots in Disguise, as kids who watched that then created a blockbuster movie series. It then moved into the hit film series the Matrix, done by the Witchoski Brothers, who were very influenced by the anime move Ghost in the Shell, as well as mirrored many scenes from that movie into their own. This documentary is my main point of how influenced the world is by this other culture. In one clip discussing the anime Afro Samurai In which the music was done by the RZA, and a voice appearance by Samuel L. Jackson, is one of the true combinations of both American and Japanese cultures.

                For the music video of the rap battle, in it they as I said battle back and forth, rhyming to anime and manga references to try to outdo each other. Even though it has some very bad and non-school appropriate language, it does prove a point, in lines such as: “No one’s heard of you like D Gray Man” or in a much more offensive line “I won’t make jokes and call you a homo, but I will say you look like Mr. PoPo”, and a as a final quote from it, “Japan Swagger”. From these lines you can truly tell that they are trying to relate with all people in this video by using rap, which is a common and popular musical style, as well as a small, but popular expression of using not such generic references like a popular movie or trash on another rapper.  The final example is what is called an AMV or a music video using anime pictures as videos. This is to show people that anime isn’t always people fighting with overly muscled men. The title: “If the Storm Ends (Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gankutsuo, Raxephon)”, it uses a strong song as well as famous quotes to show the characters inner struggles in the show.

                So, overall anime and manga has truly impacted other cultures, and other cultures have impacted them. It is one large cycle of creation in which the winner is the fans. It has created many things like new ideas and actions in movies, and music that can impact you. Anime and manga can create stories that can impact the way you think of an issue and change your view of the world. Isn’t that what all shows and movies should do?

               

Work Cited

Somers, Karen, dir. Anime: Drawing a Revolution. Starz Entertainment, 2007. Film. <www.starz.com/titles/starzinsideanimedrawingtherevolution>.

Snow Patrol. What if the Storm Ends. 2008. Song . A Hundred Million Suns, Berlin. CD-ROM

                 

I do not own any of the music or any parts of the video