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World of Anime Fandom in America!
Does such fandom exists in American society today?
When we think about anime most people from the outside looking in think of it
more feminine. Yet no one know that early on it was mainly a masculine. Girls
would be included too but came off more masculine than feminine to be part of
this fandom.
In class we talked about how individuals that are
outside anime and its fandoms would look at those that are in differently. Yet
is it a problem that more and more people are being attracted into anime? It is
wrong to be two dimensional? When we think about anime we think of geeks,
nerds, and etc. But it is wrong for other like jocks to enjoy anime as well?
Being two dimensional to me is more of an advantage than one dimensional. The
term brogrammer came up in class it even though most of us didn’t know about
it, this actually a thing. Being capable of programing and yet you can be a bro
as well. We are seeing more and more people become like this. I myself is one
was well; I love to work out, play sports, and yet anime is a big part of daily
activities and lifestyle.
The best thing about class though was watching ponyo.
This is a film by Hayao Miyazaki that was similar to the little mermaid about a
fish wanting to become human. It is a great film and I highly recommend people
to show other people or kids if they have any. This films teach its viewers
many values and themes. For instance Miyazaki is known to have themes within
his films. Such would be humanism, environmentalism, and family values.
I heard about brogrammers first time in this class. However, I think people also face an issue of what sorts of anime do they enjoy watching. It could more executable for people who are masculine to watch anime, but it also comes down to what sorts of anime are they watching. I think this is a working progress, but there is still this phenomenon of anime being too feminine (when in reality it could be both feminine and masculine activity).
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