In continuation from my previous post, as well as some continuity with Ben's post a few days ago, i'm going to be providing another example of shared culture. I previously looked at music, and Gangnam Style in particular, but now i'll be focusing my attention to other media, like books and comics, as well as TV coming out of the east, and how it arrives in the West.
In England, or anywhere in the west, comics are strongly related to superheroes and villains. You'll undoubtedly hear the words Marvel or DC thrown about, and people will shout their favourite hero. Comics are massive at the moment. Just look at what's playing in your local cinema and you're bound to see something that was an original comic; Iron Man, Spiderman the list goes on.
But something that's becoming more and more popular are graphic novels and comics from asia. Japan has almost single-handely got the market covered for this. People know it as the technology and videogame center of the world, with giants like Nintendo and Sony both having origins from Japan, but it's secret gem is animation and comics (Anime and Manga).
Just recently Studio Ghibli, the largest animation film studio in Japan released one of it's directors last movies 'The Wind Rises'. This was one of the first animated films to have come to western cinema, a milestone some might say. But it's definitely not going to be the last. With this have come waves of manga adaptations which are coming to the movies, Summer Phenomenon 'Attack on Titan' has already had an anime series made, but is set to release a movie in 2015/16, as well as Crime/Drama Death Note, widely regarded as a masterpiece in the genre. As a fan of these shows, i'm certainly glad they're embracing the limelight a little.
Nothing really new here, but just an extension onto what I previously wrote.
https://thexangelxrafaelle.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/globalization-of-manga-and-anime/
http://www.corneredangel.com/amwess/papers/manga_culture_natsume.pdf
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