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Oct. 25th, 2005 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageIn case you've forgotten, Heero is not Toast!
I swear, this paper is turning out to be one on the the Japanese media's images of success. If I'm going to get to other's images (my culture's, my family's, and my own), the paper will have to be 10 pages, especially if I want "proper weight" placed on everything. Maybe I should just make stuff up (i.e., how American media affects my own images of success).
What I have so far:
Although our personal views of success first come from our families, as we get older the media shapes or even changes these views. For a while now, the media I have exposed myself to has mainly been of Japanese origin (Japanese comics (manga), cartoons (anime), and other TV shows (dramas, etc.). Therefore, in considering how the media has affected my personal definition of success, I feel that I should look more at the Japanese media’s definitions than at the American media’s definitions. Of course, not growing up in Japan, American culture has affected my perceptions of Japanese media, so I must also look at the views of American culture in general (that which goes beyond the media).
From what I’ve picked up, those portrayed as being “successful” in Japanese media are generally those who are the best at what they do. Characters who are most admired are those who are either already the best at what they do, or have becoming the best as their main goal in life. A large portion of anime and manga have becoming the best as their main plot.
For example, one series, Hikaru no Go, is about an elementary schooler (and later junior high schooler) named Shindou Hikaru training to become a professional Go player and climb up the ranks, and eventually to obtain the “Hand of God”, or to gain the knowledge to play the perfect Go game. His goal is not merely to get paid to do what he loves, but to become the best at what he loves. Other goals found in anime and manga are to become the best warrior, to best cook, the best athlete, or the best band. One could argue that all of these goals are to obtain a sort of vocational “Buddha-hood”. Thus, the characters perceived as most successful (and most admired) are those who are the best at what they do: the bes
And no, I didn't not paste the whole thing - my paper currently stops mid-word.
"pistachios ain't that great, I thought I'd mention 'em
distinctive from how awesome I am [...]"
- MC Frontalot, "Braggadocio"
I swear, this paper is turning out to be one on the the Japanese media's images of success. If I'm going to get to other's images (my culture's, my family's, and my own), the paper will have to be 10 pages, especially if I want "proper weight" placed on everything. Maybe I should just make stuff up (i.e., how American media affects my own images of success).
What I have so far:
Although our personal views of success first come from our families, as we get older the media shapes or even changes these views. For a while now, the media I have exposed myself to has mainly been of Japanese origin (Japanese comics (manga), cartoons (anime), and other TV shows (dramas, etc.). Therefore, in considering how the media has affected my personal definition of success, I feel that I should look more at the Japanese media’s definitions than at the American media’s definitions. Of course, not growing up in Japan, American culture has affected my perceptions of Japanese media, so I must also look at the views of American culture in general (that which goes beyond the media).
From what I’ve picked up, those portrayed as being “successful” in Japanese media are generally those who are the best at what they do. Characters who are most admired are those who are either already the best at what they do, or have becoming the best as their main goal in life. A large portion of anime and manga have becoming the best as their main plot.
For example, one series, Hikaru no Go, is about an elementary schooler (and later junior high schooler) named Shindou Hikaru training to become a professional Go player and climb up the ranks, and eventually to obtain the “Hand of God”, or to gain the knowledge to play the perfect Go game. His goal is not merely to get paid to do what he loves, but to become the best at what he loves. Other goals found in anime and manga are to become the best warrior, to best cook, the best athlete, or the best band. One could argue that all of these goals are to obtain a sort of vocational “Buddha-hood”. Thus, the characters perceived as most successful (and most admired) are those who are the best at what they do: the bes
And no, I didn't not paste the whole thing - my paper currently stops mid-word.
"pistachios ain't that great, I thought I'd mention 'em
distinctive from how awesome I am [...]"
- MC Frontalot, "Braggadocio"
