by Jordan Trygstad

What is Anime?

“Japanese cartoons and computer animation (=pictures, films etc produced using a computer)” - Longman English Dictionary Online

What is Anime?

What is Anime?

What is Anime?

What is Anime?

What is Anime?

What is Anime?

“a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes” - Merriam-Webster

What is Anime?

Why Anime?

NDSU Anime Club

Friday & Saturday 7 – 10pm

Why Anime?

NDSU Anime Club

Friday & Saturday 7 – 10pm

24 Nights a Semester

72 Hours

Why Anime?

NDSU Anime Club

Friday & Saturday 7 – 10pm

24 Nights a Semester

72 Hours

9 Semesters

648 Hours

Why Anime?

Death in Anime

Death in Anime

-Understanding Religious Climate

Goals

-Understanding Religious Climate

-Associating Fairy Tales and Myths

Goals

-Understanding Religious Climate

-Associating Fairy Tales and Myths

-Applying Psychoanalysis

Goals

-Understanding Religious Climate

-Associating Fairy Tales and Myths

-Applying Psychoanalysis

Goals

-Shinto

-Buddhism

-Christianity

Religious Climate

-Shinto

-Buddhism

• More than 85% (Karan 72-3)

• Reincarnation

• Bardo

-Christianity

Religious Climate

Limited Time

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Episode 02 – “The First Day”

Mother

Revival?

“And then something goes terribly wrong.”

Revival

After

- “White Bird Sister”

- “The Elder Sister and the Younger Brother”

Fairy Tales

- Denial

- Anger

- Bargaining

- Depression

- Acceptance

Stages of Grief

NDSU English Professors and Instructors

Dr. Robert O’Connor

Dr. Elizabeth Birmingham

Thank You

"Anime." Longman English Dictionary Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/anime>.

"Anime." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2012. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anime>.

"Bardo." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Nov. 2012. Web. 30 Nov. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo>.

Beasley, W. G. "Origins." The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan . Los Angeles: U of California P, 1999. 1-18. Print.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Dir. Yasuhiro Irie. Bones, 2009. DVD.

Gluck, Carol. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period . Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1985. Print.

Karan, Pradyumna P. "The Cultural Heritage." Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, \ Economy, and Society. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2005. 69-76. Print.

Kawai, Hayao. The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in Fairy Tales of Japan . Woodstock, CT: Spring, 1997. Print.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi. Gainax, 2007. File.

Works Cited