• 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, February 26, 2017

The Annals of AP Research

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Only 7 more weeks of AP Research. Man, it’s almost over. I can’t believe that we are already finished collecting and analyzing our data. My research has yielded results that I did not see coming, and I have noticed connections between my themes that I had never even thought of before. But I guess,...

Sunday, February 19, 2017

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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(Sorry, I just couldn’t think of a good title for this blogpost.) It is scary to think that after next week, we will already be nearly ⅓ of our way done with our research project. At the beginning of the year, I thought I could take it slow and take my time doing my research during the third trimester,...

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Almost There

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This past week I finished noting down the changes in the first 26 episodes of Dragon Ball Z and the first 16 episodes of Cowboy Bebop. Now all that remains are ten more episodes of Cowboy Bebop  and Spirited Away. However, I have to admit that I have not given my Literature Review and my Methods...

Sunday, February 5, 2017

All Alone (ಥ_ಥ)

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Hello 6th period research peeps, welcome to my humble abode (blog). Since you may have no idea about what I am doing for my research, let me just get you caught up on what my research is all about. Here’s the jist of it: when anime is broadcast in America it is edited to make it seem more American,...
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