![]() Professor Yoda recently related these observations about her class and its relationship to the Libraries’ collection:Īnime has offered me both opportunities and challenges as a teacher. Professor Yoda uses these resources in “Topics in Japanese Anime,” a course she teaches regularly to capacity enrollments. Professor Tomiko Yoda of Asian and African Languages and Literature (AALL), and Kristina Troost, the head of IAS and librarian for Japan and Korea, worked in collaboration to build a collection of manga and anime. In 2002 the Freeman Foundation made a four-year grant to the Libraries’ International Area Studies Department (IAS) to expand its support of undergraduate education and teaching in Japanese Studies. The Genesis of the Duke Libraries’ Anime Collection These early successful forays into American homes and theaters were followed by the arrival of blockbuster anime feature-length films like Hiyao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2005). by the 1990s when the television series, Sailor Moon, began airing. film market with Akira (1989), directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. television was Astro Boy, which aired in the 1980s on NBC at about the same time that anime broke into the U.S. It’s quite common for anime to be based on a manga or even a video game – and vice versa. Another hallmark of anime is its relationship to other media, including video games and manga (Japanese comics and print cartoons). The artistic rendering of anime characters-their large eyes, tiny mouths, and wildly colored hair, instantly recognizable-further distinguishes the style from Western animation. Anime also differs from Western animation in its use of sophisticated cinematic effects such as panning shots to create background motion and shifting the visual focus from background to foreground. Unlike American animation, which is predominantly a children’s medium, anime, with richer and more challenging story lines, is the major form of visual entertainment in Japan. ![]() – Philip Brophy from his introduction to 100 Anime, British Film Institute, 2005 Introducing AnimeĪnime, pronounced a˘n´-ma¯´, describes a Japanese animation style as well as the films created in that style. This is the appeal, the fascination, the allure of anime. The growth in Western audiences for anime over the past decade testifies to the addiction these worlds induce… Dive in-things become viscous, shiny, loud. Once caught by its ocular excess and sonic gestalt, your sense of the imaginable future is radically changed. Tangible one moment, it melts into a strange texture the next. You will encounter a different gravity, an unlikely atmosphere, an unexpected moisture. After your first random fifteen minutes of any (non-dubbed) anime you’re bound to be overwhelmed by its otherworldliness.
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