Cultural studies from analysis of Japanese manga and anime

The reasons why I chose this topic were mainly two, first of all from a very young age when I see productions of this style, both animation in the form of movies and series, as well as manga of various genres (it should be noted that manga is the simile to the production of comics in the West), so I have a vast knowledge of these works and a nostalgic affection for them. Secondly, there is the power to give an analysis to these works with a new perspective from the application of the sociological imagination, a criterion that accounts for elements that go unnoticed in other circumstances, but that define aspects that come to completely transform the way of looking at these stories.

Although the influence of these productions has become widespread and popularized in recent years (mainly thanks to the fact that the content is available through the internet), their influence has been present for years in our country thanks to the broadcast of the series through television, being mainly focused on children and teens audiences with the aim of capturing viewers who were growing, becoming more interested in the consumption of these works, thus allowing to open a new market focused on entertainment that also managed to transmit the representative aspects of a model of life that was completely outside to what we considered like everyday in the West, both in its approaches of philosophical and moral representations, and in its habits and values.

Although the massification of the product has altered its content to make it more attractive and closer to the standards accustomed in other parts of the world, the idea of putting on a work that manifests the characteristic elements of a culture, now is a standard that we can observe in different manifestations, such as the American cinema model or the K-pop of South Korea.