Ok, I’ve been a big fan of Anime for a long time. In case you don’t know, Anime is a Japanese cartoon style of animation that has a huge underground following. And since I am closely tied to the film community here in LA, and since Anime is often borrowed upon in filmmaking – I have become a big fan of it.
Any of you who watch the TV show Hero’s should know that that show owes a great debt to Anime, which is where it gets a lot of it’s style elements. Anime is different from ‘Marvel’ style comics in a few ways, one of which is the drawing style: notably big eyes, and sometimes oversized mouths or other features. Another is that Anime usually has longer, more drawn out storylines. To take a look at a site devoted to anime you can go to http://animes.anakdatuk.com/2007/05/16/wordpress-auctionads-widget/. This site is pretty devoted to tech, but that’s not unusual in the world of Anime – Cartooning and computer tech is often done by the same people.
I once had a boyfriend who brought me back a pair of ‘Astro Boy’ socks from Japan!
You can see an actual anime episode by clicking that link. Wikipedia says about Anime: “Like any entertainment medium, the story lines represent most major genres of fiction.” But in Japan Anime is completely mainstream and seen everywhere. It is probably a big part of what you think of unconsciously when you think of Japan or Japanese style, whithout even being aware of it.
Since this seems to be the topic of the week; here’s a blog that discusses feminism in Manga. Which certainly seems to fit the Saturn moving into Virgo theme I’ve been discussing. Manga/Anime is often just cartoon porn, which makes it a very debatable subject.
Astrologically, I would assign Marvel style comics to Mars – since they are always about the Hero’s journey and full of fights, and the color schemes are all primary (Mars) colors. Anime in Japan has a lot of these elements as well, and one aspect of it is very sexualized (which is also Mars) but I would ascribe Japanese Anime to Jupiter, because it is more the art of storytelling as a whole. Anime is based on Manga (Japanese drawn cartoons) which are usually primarily done in Black and White. And Stories as well as myths are the domain of Jupiter, and what is more Mythological than a whole style and Genre of storytelling? Ultimately, I would love to find someone who is a digital animator to work on an Astrology project. Any ideas? I’d love to hear from my readers on this, and if you or anyone you know might be able to do something like this, please contact me!
Thanks.
Aura
