• Anime in America

    Anime, a Japanese cartoon art form, has become so popular in America that it has grown to a $4.3 billion industry in America.

  • The Research Question

    What are the thematic differences in Japanese anime when analyzing the subtitled versus the dubbed versions of the anime for an American audience?

  • Dragon Ball Z

    Dragon Ball Z is arguably the most well known and influential anime show to ever air in the United States.

  • Spirited Away

    Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest animated movies ever made, Japanese or otherwise.

  • Cowboy Bebop

    Cowboy Bebop, along with Dragon Ball Z, is credited with bringing anime into mainstream American culture.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Emotions

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The hardest part about my research so far has been really finding the right sources and making the explicit questions between the sources and my premises. But talking with Mrs. Haag and going through the outline really helped alleviate a lot of the fear and stress. So, right now the biggest fear I have is about my research method. 

This is a little too early, and that this is reserved for the methods, but I have no clue on how I will go about and conduct my research project. I know that I will be comparing both dubbed and subbed shows, but I do not really know how I can take the human error out of the research process. I will be looking for themes, yet I am still uncertain on how I will systematically define these themes, and distinguish between them when watching the anime shows. I really need to dig deep to find sources that can both identify these themes and define them. Then I will need to create a really objective and systematic approach to finding these themes in the anime, so I can present the least biased and easily repeatable results to my reader. 

So many emotions at once.

The aspect of my project that I kind of feel iffy on is how I will incorporate culture into my research question. I do not know how I can incorporate the importance of American and Japanese culture into my research question. I am confident that I can show the importance of my research to culture. I have sources that show how anime relates to culture and I make it explicit throughout my literature review. I just don’t know whether, or how, I should explicitly state the importance of culture into my research question. Should I include culture into my research question? Or, should I just leave it to be addressed in the significance and my literature review? 

Now to what I feel completely confident about. There is not a lot to be completely confident about, since this is still relatively early in the research process. What I am most excited and happy about this research project about is that it is a project that I am really enjoying and I just love this topic. Also, I am confident about some parts of my literature review. I did a lot of research on the anime industry in America and the American anime fan. That part of my literature review has a lot of interaction between different sources, and I believe that it is the most refined and strongest part of my literature review. 


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