Essay Example on Japanese propaganda films era Defining Anime Momotarou Katsudo Shashin

The Japanese society post war then inherited the combined heavy weight of love of now with a deep distrust of adults In the 1960s 1970s The products therefore placed a sort of faith or belief in children and likewise showed the issues and problems of adulthood This resulted in children s anime and manga became full of adult themes such as racism rape and poverty and the adults did not mind the 10 year old kids seeing these issues so in turn this generation influenced the 70 s franchises to focus on much broader and extreme subjects wHICH IN TURN influence the children to be exposed to more things 1970 s Revolutionary anime Mecha anime and space anime Defining Anime Voltes V Mazinger Z Candy Candy Space Battleship Yamato Lupin III Gatchaman Doraemon Cutey Honey Ashita no Joe Mirai Shounen Conan Rose of Versailles and Galaxy Express 999 This era influenced the culture by making an era of dreamers 

This is also known as part as the Golden Age of anime Production quality boomed and more and more japanese embraced anime as a medium of entertainment This era was one of the most influential eras of anime The mecha anime made people wish for futuristic aspects of their life 1980 s The start of fighting shounen and high budget movies and OVAs Defining Anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes Dragonball Fist of the North Star SDF Macross Guyver Maison Ikkoku Touch Kiki's Delivery Service Barefoot Gen Area 88 City Hunter Creamy Mami Mobile Police Patlabor Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise Royal Space Force The Wings of Honneamise Akira Saint Seiya Mysterious Cities of Gold Gunbuster Urusei Yatsura and Tonari no Totoro In early shōnen manga men and boys played all the major roles with women and girls having only auxiliary places as sisters mothers and occasionally girlfriends Of the nine cyborgs in Shotaro Ishinomori s 1964 Cyborg 009 only one is female and she soon vanishes from the action Some recent shōnen manga virtually omit women e g the martial arts story Baki the Grappler by Itagaki Keisuke and the supernatural fantasy Sand Land by Akira Toriyama By the 1980s however girls and women began to play increasingly important roles in shōnen manga For example in Toriyamas 1980