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offbeat question about anime [message #387270] Sun, 22 September 2019 10:24 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Yes

I've been watching two series - Dr. Stone and another about some girls
who get interested in exercising at a gym (dumbells in the title).
Given how often explanations are provided about the science and how the
exercises are to be safely done, I'm wondering if these are more along
the lines of trying to provide education to the public using the
entertainment value of anime to get the viewer's attention. Does the
Japanese government sponsor and/or fund anime in the spirit of public
service/education, and might these be in that vein?

John
Re: offbeat question about anime [message #387271 is a reply to message #387270] Sun, 22 September 2019 10:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:24:40 -0000 (UTC), "Yes"
<noone@invalid.invalid.com> wrote:

> I've been watching two series - Dr. Stone and another about some girls
> who get interested in exercising at a gym (dumbells in the title).
> Given how often explanations are provided about the science and how the
> exercises are to be safely done, I'm wondering if these are more along
> the lines of trying to provide education to the public using the
> entertainment value of anime to get the viewer's attention.

Japanese anime had always education in mind, especially those for the
younger audience. But it isn't just about science and so on. Usual are
simple tips to stay alive.

For instance, when the younger sister eats to fast, and starts
hectically choking, it is her elder brother, who hands her a bottle
with water to wash it down.

There was no need for that in the storyline. (Sword Art Online II).


> Does the
> Japanese government sponsor and/or fund anime in the spirit of public
> service/education, and might these be in that vein?

Afaik yes. It is a decades old tradition.
Re: offbeat question about anime [message #387294 is a reply to message #387271] Mon, 23 September 2019 10:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: Yes

Arne Luft wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:24:40 -0000 (UTC), "Yes"
> <noone@invalid.invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been watching two series - Dr. Stone and another about some
>> girls who get interested in exercising at a gym (dumbells in the
>> title). Given how often explanations are provided about the
>> science and how the exercises are to be safely done, I'm wondering
>> if these are more along the lines of trying to provide education to
>> the public using the entertainment value of anime to get the
>> viewer's attention.
>
> Japanese anime had always education in mind, especially those for the
> younger audience. But it isn't just about science and so on. Usual are
> simple tips to stay alive.
>
> For instance, when the younger sister eats to fast, and starts
> hectically choking, it is her elder brother, who hands her a bottle
> with water to wash it down.
>
> There was no need for that in the storyline. (Sword Art Online II).
>
>
>> Does the
>> Japanese government sponsor and/or fund anime in the spirit of
>> public service/education, and might these be in that vein?
>
> Afaik yes. It is a decades old tradition.

Thanks. The exercise anime was perhaps the most unusual to me because
each episode went into great length to illustrate how to do various
exercises. It reminded me so much of something that, if it were not an
anime series, would have possibly been aired on PBS stations in the U.S.

John
Re: offbeat question about anime [message #387342 is a reply to message #387294] Wed, 25 September 2019 12:10 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: Bobbie Sellers

On 9/23/19 7:05 AM, Yes wrote:
> Arne Luft wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:24:40 -0000 (UTC), "Yes"
>> <noone@invalid.invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been watching two series - Dr. Stone and another about some
>>> girls who get interested in exercising at a gym (dumbells in the
>>> title). Given how often explanations are provided about the
>>> science and how the exercises are to be safely done, I'm wondering
>>> if these are more along the lines of trying to provide education to
>>> the public using the entertainment value of anime to get the
>>> viewer's attention.
>>
>> Japanese anime had always education in mind, especially those for the
>> younger audience. But it isn't just about science and so on. Usual are
>> simple tips to stay alive.
>>
>> For instance, when the younger sister eats to fast, and starts
>> hectically choking, it is her elder brother, who hands her a bottle
>> with water to wash it down.
>>
>> There was no need for that in the storyline. (Sword Art Online II).
>>
>>
>>> Does the
>>> Japanese government sponsor and/or fund anime in the spirit of
>>> public service/education, and might these be in that vein?
>>
>> Afaik yes. It is a decades old tradition.
>
> Thanks. The exercise anime was perhaps the most unusual to me because
> each episode went into great length to illustrate how to do various
> exercises. It reminded me so much of something that, if it were not an
> anime series, would have possibly been aired on PBS stations in the U.S.
>
> John
>
Curiously enough in the late 1990s or Early 2000s I learned about more
interesting anime than Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh on PBS with
a fairly wide variety of shows in an anime hour before Dr.Who.
That eventually led me to start renting anime series (not
so possibly now except thru Netflix. Local rental stores still
exist but not in the higher rent areas. Anime led to manga.
Manga has greater variety and more outrageous stories but including
the purely education stuff like Japan, Inc.
But there is no reason PBS could not show anime again especially
a good exercise show.

bliss

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