Illustrations: Japanese Illustrations

Otaku is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, commonly the anime and manga fandom. Its contemporary usage originated with Akio Nakamori's 1983 essay in Manga Burikko. (Dictionary.com, 2014). Otaku are basically fans of Manga and Anime, they tend to know anime better than others and have massive amount of them stored away to watch or read again. Otakus can also argue with people who don't know the difference between Anime and Cartoons or Manga and Comics. They also tend to be very particular about what type of anime they enjoy. Otakus can be categories based on the types of anime they watch or the mangas they read. or which actor or musician they like most. 

Manga is style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels, mostly made for adults as well as children. (Dictionary.com, 2014)

Anime is of Japanese animation. (Dictionary.com, 2014)

Kawaii it is an adjective that means cute, or as a noun it means the quality of cuteness in an object. (Dictionary.com, 2014)

An illustrator who stood out for me was Belicta Castelbarco whose illustrations were both simple and simple but detailed and geometrical, at times. Her illustrations made me feel like a child again as it spoke to me because of the colour and lines. He style involves different mediums and a various number of styles. the elephant for example is done in pen and paint which is very creative and somewhat difficult to do.

Examples of her illustrations are below:

History of Communication and Transport

Below is the history of Communication and Transport over the decades.

Atomic Bomb

The atomic bomb or the Atom bomb was made in the United States of America during the 2^nd world war and at approximately 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more (historychannel.co.uk, 2012). The atomic bomb cause mass chaos and killed thousands of people in japan. The Japanese people suffered a massive set back as the atomic radiation was spread throughout the whole of Hiroshima.

Films like Hiroshima where made to reacts the events of the Hiroshima Bombing. ‘Hiroshima’ is a movie that was created by Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara and Canadian Director Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. (Hiroshima, 1995)

Another film would be Above and beyond, which is a movie that follows the life of the pilot who dropped the Atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The story of the dropping of the atomic bomb is treated as a docudrama with an effort to recreate the training and operational aspects of the military units involved in the Hiroshima mission. A docudrama is basically the term used to describe a movie that is both dramatic and also a documentary in its way of telling the story. (Above and Beyond, 1952).

Other films were made such as Black Rain, The Wolverine, The Children of Hiroshima and The Beginning or the End. These movies made box office but sometimes they didn't. Some were made in Japan others in America and also other countries.

Bibliography

Above and Beyond. 1952. [Film] Directed by Norman Panama Melvin Frank. USA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Hiroshima. 1995. [Film] Directed by Roger Spottiswoode Koreyoshi Kurahara. Canada, Japan: Telescene Flim Group Productions.

historychannel.co.uk, 2012. Atomic Bomb. [Online]
Available at: http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/atomic-bomb
[Accessed 24 April 2014].

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