Anime and Japanese Culture

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From Pokemon to Yu-Gi-Oh, anime has captured the imaginations of thousands of American children. Anime works for adults, such as "Ghost in the Shell", "Vampire Princess Miyu" and "Gundam Wing", often inspire as much dedication in adults as their counterparts do among children. This paper explores Japanese anime, including manga (comic books) which evolved out of a synthesis between traditional American comics and ancient traditions of illustration and written literature. The paper looks at how anime differs from American animation, including differences in characters, plots and style.

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"Japanese culture is highly open regarding nudity, and public bath houses are a common sight both in the country itself and in anime. Scenes involving individuals bathing together are not necessarily meant to be sexual (though of course there are numerous exceptions), and nudity is frequently treated in a casual and open manner. However, there are limits to this openness. As in many cultures in which nudity is acceptable, there are very tight strictures regarding actual indecency. It is illegal, throughout the country, to portray genitals or detailed pubic areas. This results in many hentai in which genital areas, when glimpsed, have been either blurred out or made androgynously featureless. It has also resulted, however, in a wide variety of creative and exotic ways of working around the rules. Hentai frequently uses excessive bodily fluids in the portrayal of graphic sex in order to hide the actual genitals. Creative "camera angles" can portray the most intimate encounters while subtly skipping around the genitalia. Additionally, much of the fascination with creature hentai comes from the fact that non-human genitals have no restrictions placed on their suitability for public consumption."

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