Discussion on Japan’s Animation Culture and Its Influence

Japanese animation has already become a sort of animation culture and animation industry popular all over the world.Through typical works in Japanese animation, we can find that Japanese animation has naturalistic style, and that it can realize dynamic integration between Japanese culture and foreign cultures.Japanese animation has great effects on Chinese teenagers.In this paper, the author summarizes basic meaning of animation, analyzes main characteristics of Japanese animation, and discusses the influence of Japanese animation on Chinese teenagers. I. Basic Meaning of AnimationThe concept of animation appeared in Japan in the 1960s, and it was firstly proposed by Japanese animation master Osamu Tezuka.Initially, Chinese animation only equaled to the word "cartoon".However, "卡通" in Chinese is the transliterated as "cartoon" in English.With the implementation and the reform and opening-up policy in China, animation entered Chinese market.Mickey and Donald popular in the world in the 1980s still remain fresh in people's memory.However, animation doesn't mean simple cartoon.Animation itself contains both parts of cartoon and comic.Animation refers to dynamic scenes frequently seen in television or movie.However, the origin of animation is even earlier.It mainly includes continuous static pages that can be read by readers, so as to obtain a visually dynamic sense.Therefore, animation is a group of entertainment symbols derived from cartoon and comic. II. Main Characteristics of Japanese AnimationJapan is the biggest animation production and exportation country in the world at present.Its animation products have already formed a set of complete industrial chains, promoting continuous development of Japan's economy.At the same time, for better development of its animation culture and animation industry, Japanese government begins to positively expand animation broadcasting, animation derivatives and other markets, so as to make the development of Japanese animation to remarkably surpass China.With its unique characteristics, Japanese animation conquers cartoon fans all over the world.Main characteristics of Japanese animation are described as follows:(I) Extremely Morbid Beauty Japan obstinately pursue for extreme beauty.For instance, Japanese people think that the most beautiful moment is the moment in which cherry blossoms wither and fall.The reason is that it is very fast for cherry blossoms in a tree to wither and fall, and that the destruction scene is very spectacular.Therefore, it is inspiring.Japanese people pursuing for beauty even at the instant moment of death certainly will run to extremes with respect to creation of animation art, or even pursue for a sort of morbid beauty.Reflected in animation works, it results in almost crazy homosexual plots in Mirage of Blaze and Absolute Love as well as deliberate beautification and processing of massacre scenes in Rurouni Kenshin.Readers can't help associating Japanese Samurai spirit.Bushido requires a samurai to get well prepared for devoting his life at any time, and reach a certain crazy level for so-called career.Therefore, samurais will resolutely choose to commit ritualistic suicide when they are faced with failure, and frequently research how to make ritualistic actions more beautiful.Viewed by other countries, this action making Japanese people proud of is typical morbidity. (II) Exquisite Emotional DescriptionJapanese animation creators are good at describing subtle emotions between figures.Moreover, they pay special attention to description on details.Usually, considerable dialogues or asides are produced in animation works.Above discourses inevitably will be revealed naturally with changes in inner emotional world of animation figures.Thus, figures will become more colorful and more vivid.Delicate description on figure's inward world is one of important features of Japanese animation works as well as one of significant signs used by us to distinguish Japanese animation from American animation.Then, why Japanese animation has such characteristics?The reason is that Japanese people will not easily reveal their inner emotions.If it continues this way for a long time, their sense organs will become extremely developed and can meticulously feel delicate emotions between them.Thus, attention on emotional relations between people and people becomes priority in their life.Japanese people