Q:What kind of Japanese fiction works?
A:This presentation is mostly about comics and animation produced in Japan, but it covers also TV Shows and movies
Topic: Japanese fiction
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade you that Japanese fiction is better than western fiction regarding comics, animation, movies and TV shows
Thesis statement: Although Western people see Japan as a calculating land with brutally efficient workers, they are in fact individualistic, expressive and sentimental if we can judge them from their works of fiction who surpass our own in various aspects
Introduction:
I. How other countries think of Japan
II. Thesis statement
III. Reminding the meaning of the terms manga and anime
Body:
I. First argument: Japan's tendency to mix various influences from all over the world
A.Japan borrows various foreign things and merges them with other elements
B.Example regarding religion of Japan
C.This tendency in regards to fiction
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Heavy black plume of smoke streams southeast from ...II.Second Argument: How Japanese portray life, human
relations, nature and the world in their fiction works
A.Human nature is portrayed as it is
B.Japan's popular culture has a tight closeness to the ordinary, everyday lives of its audience
C.Manga on any theme imaginable and toward any age range
D.How human relations are portrayed
III.Third Argument: Heroes' fate after their struggle, death and the morality of the universe in Japanese fiction
A.What defines a hero in Japan
B.Death in japanese fiction
C.View of the universe as amoral
IV.Opposition/Refutation
A1. Pornographic themes in manga and anime
A2. Refutation
B1. Japan's cultural insularity robs it of relevance for other societies
B2. Refutation
Conclusion:
I. Quote from Antonia Levi
If someone will say that Japanese people are imaginative, sentimental, expressive and individualistic might earn him strange glances in most countries of the world. Many Westerners see Japan as a cold, calculating land of ant-like...