• Anime, a Japanese cartoon art form, has become so popular in America that it has grown to a $4.3 billion industry in America.
  • 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 is arguably the most well known and influential anime show to ever air in the United States.
  • Spirited Away is considered to be one of the greatest animated movies ever made, Japanese or otherwise.
  • Cowboy Bebop, along with Dragon Ball Z, is credited with bringing anime into mainstream American culture.

Monday, December 12, 2016

A Plan for Action

My anime sample size is the following three anime: One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, and Spirited Away. For One Piece and Dragon Ball Z, due to time restrictions I will be watching only the first season of each. There are 43 dubbed episodes of One Piece in its first season, and in Dragon Ball Z, there are...

Sunday, December 4, 2016