Research Memo 2
In order to learn more about my research topic I went to look up a few articles to help me understand everything better. The first article is called “The History of Anime and Manga” by Marwah Zagzoug, which does discuss the history of modern manga. The second article is “Manga AND Anime”, by Jonathan Mays, this two gives the history of modern manga. It also gives some very interesting facts about the creation of anime and cartoons from America to Japan.
The first article that I will dissect for information will be “Manga AND Anime” by Jonathan Mays. It does begin with an ancient history of Japanese art. But it doesn’t begin to talk about Osamu Tezuka , or comics during that time until after World War II, which is where the story beings. Osamu Tezuka is the creator of modern manga. He was a factory workers and an aspiring doctor, who noticed the popularity of Japanese comic strips and then took it one step further. He did this by his love of American cartoons like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, which were in his father’s movie projectors. He took the black and white color scheme, and then added the story telling of Japanese comic strips to create the revolutionary graphic novel type comics, manga.
His first big hit was in 1947 with “New Treasure Island”, which was a two hundred page graphic novel, and the first modern manga to hit the market in Japan. He used the type of cinematic cartoons that he saw in the Disney movies and shows like close ups of characters, which the readers loved, and rewarded him with 400,000 copies sold. He then began to open the world for more than just comedies that the Japanese people knew; he opened the door for dramas and action type comics. Then as his audience grew, he and all of the people that followed him began to create stories that would appeal to both the adults who loved them as kids, and the kids as well. So that by the 1980’s manga had evolved to be a “popular Pastime).
With the stories people got the idea to move these graphic books into animated features called anime. With the success of his stories, Tezuka opened the first anime studio, Mushi Productions. And as he did years before, he kept reinventing new idea for anime, creating fast-paced tales that no one had ever seen before. It wasn’t till years later that a director named Hayoa Miyazaki, won an American Oscar award for his movie Spirited Way. Now days, there are even some anime that is created just for Americans like IGPX (Immortal Grand Prix).
The second article “History of manga and anime” goes through the same basic information as the previous article. With the history of Osama Tezuka and his first work of “New Treasure Island”, along with his multiple other stories like Astro Boy, or Black Jack. It is said that because of his medical background that he used allusions of those to characters names in his own manga.
Even though this does not discuss my exact topic of trying to find out the exact allusions of manga and anime to other cultures of the world. I did get a small taste that Osama Tezuka was a fan of Disney movies. With that small piece of information we can say that America helped inspire manga. Another example is of his first novel “New Treasure Island”, which is based off of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.” So for the next and finale research memo using videos, I hope to find more strong information to help prove my case.
Work Cited
· <a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=19483877&site=ehost-live">Manga AND Anime.</a>
· Zagzoug, Marway. "The History of Anime &Manga." http://novaonline.nvcc,edu. N.p., April. Web. 17 Nov 2011. <http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/Anime62/Anime62.html>.
· Disney, walt. "Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse." Mickey Mouse. 1930's. Print. <http://blog.buycostumes.com/halloween-costumes/happy-birthday-mickey-mouse/>.
· Tezuka, Osama. "AstroBboy." Wikipedia.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AstroBoy1963.jpg>.
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