Persuasive Speech: Japanese fiction works are better than Western ones

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

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 workers

Bibliography: Clements, Jonathan and Helen McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 Stone Bridge Press, 2001. Craig, Timothy. Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture East Gate, 2000. Levi, Antonia. Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation Carus Publishing, 1998. Patten, Fred. Anime Stereotypes. Newtype, Issue Dec.2003 A.D.Vision Publications. For my third argument supporting my opinion, I will talk about the presence of female heroes in Japanese fiction. In the Western world apart from such exceptions as Wonder Woman, She-ra and Xena the role of superhero has traditionally been reserved for males, and targeted a predominantly male audience especially in comic books. This is not the case with Japanese fiction. Japanese don 't neglect females be it on the starring roles of their fiction works or as a target group audience. In manga specifically, there exists a separate genre called shoujo manga with many sub-genres itself, which raises issues and has stories related and devoted to women. The presence of females as featured heroes in manga, animation and TV shows has been much stronger in Japan than in the western world. As the book "Japan Pop" specifically reports: "in Japan girl heroes are now as common and popular as boy heroes. The reasons for this are complex and, while hardly due to a greater feminist consciousness in Japanese society, are clearly linked to the increase in recent years of female artists.