Mangá and the transmission of culture: the Rurouni Kenshin exemple / Mangá e a transmissão de cultura: o exemplo de Rurouni Kenshin

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2008

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This work´s subject is the Mangá (Japanese cartoon) and its use as a cultural transmission tool. Starting from the historical analysis and the subsequent world expansion, this work tried to understand how the mangá was created and how it is understood by the Japanese and the ocidental people, specifically Brazilians. One relevant point was that Japanese people see the mangá just as cartoons while ocidental people understand it as a style. The title chosen to be the studied is Rurouni Kenshin, a very famous mangá in Brazil as well as in Japan. This mangá tells the story of a wandering samurai in the beginning of the Meiji era, who, regretted of being an assassin, started to protect everyone´s life. We tried to identify elements in the story that were related to the reality and could be used as a source of knowledge transmission. Many aspects were used in this comparison, such as architectural, historical, linguistic, among others. In the end of the analysis it was possible to prove that there is a connection between the cartoon and the real facts. Therefore, mangá can be understood just like fun, but if the reader could understand its content in depth, it can be used as a knowledge transmission tool.

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history in comics - japan história em quadrinhos - japão transmissão de cultura - japão transmission of culture - japan

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