Anime Manga - 01 - I bambini di ieri

It was 1978 when the first cartoon made by a completely Japanese production appeared for the first time on Italian television capturing in a very short time children's attention. During the next years, among many controversies, many Japanese cartoons broke into television scheduling of local and national broadcasting stations capturing children's imagination. TODAY "YESTERDAY CHILDREN" My name is Pierluigi Piras, I was born on 4 Genuary 1973 and I've a comics shop with coffee bar. In the middle of economic crisis, in 2008, I resigned from my job, I traveled one year in South America and I thought not about what I want to do in my life but about what I don't want. That is the basis to feel well, in my opinion. I can't think that every morning someone tells me rudely what I have to do and how I have to do it. I want to feel good! Since you understand what you don't want, you can think about what you want. One day, like every day, my girlfriend was waiting me out of a comics shop while I bought my comics and I had an idea: why doesn't exist a shop where people can wait inside, drink a coffee, a tea, maybe it's winter outside, it's cold and at the same time her boyfriend, her son, her husband looks for some interesting comics So having a "Manga café" with an Italian style, because the "Manga café" was born like a place where people can take a comic, read it and put it back, you can't bring it at home, but I sell comics, it's a little bit different. Moreover, in order to encourage young people not to waste time but to invest it in themselves, we have drawing classes with a boy graduated at Brera Academy, we have also Japanese language courses with a native teacher. The wonderful thing of this work is that young people come here, that makes me feel good! They have this fresh energy that adults have forgotten. They give you the opportunity to renovate yourself every times, I really wouldn't do anything else. My name is Silvio but people usually know me as Dj Shiru and I do a lot of things. When I dress like this and my name is Dj Shiru I'm a dj with a Japanese singer, together we call ourselves K-ble Jungle and we perform in clubs and in private parties, especially we perform in comics festivals. In addition to that I'm a member of Ochacaffè Association where I deal with public relations. his association promote Japanese culture in Italy and, partly, italian culture in Japan. One thing I really like of my job is that it gives me the opportunity to meet very interesting people, especially Japanese artists who maybe before I admired as a fan, but now... I've a job that gives me the possibility of organizing their concerts or promoting their tour or even, one of my dreams, working with them on the stage. It's something that gives me a lot of satisfaction. If I weren't a Dj, I would probably do something that let me move, travel, meet people, explore culture, because that is what I like to do. My name is Eleonora Caruso, I'm 27 years old and I write. I love stories, so it was nearly natural for me to begin to narrate my own stories. There was an initiative at "Pordenone Legge Festival", a literary festival in Pordenone. They put together some authors who didn't published anything before, they chose between a hundred texts and, between them, they chose mine. Darla is my protagonist, she is considered by the critics and, generally, by many readers as an atypical girl because she's 22 years old, she's enrolled at the university but she doesn't attend it, she gave a couple of exams and then she just fell in doing nothing she lives her life in her house, sunk into the couch, doing nothing except for reading comics, watching cartoons, downloading *** and this kind of stuff, usually in pajamas, probably not washing herself for days. The book was born from the desire to create a heroine who would reflect the life style of people I know, girls who don't correspond to the usual archetype of novel's girl: a nice and cute girl who fall in love. wanted to represent a girl who is considered maybe atypical with passions that maybe are considered unusual but actually I don't think so. If my book were a manga, it would probably be a shojo manga, not because this genre is marketed exclusively to girls but because it has a type of narration, in my opinion, a little bit focused on thoughts that it's more rare in manga for boys, so it would probably be a shojo. I'm Luca Donnarumma, I was born in 1986. Some years ago, while I was watching a cartoon, Inuyasha, I began to copy this cartoon's drawings and slowly I discovered many other things of this world and finally I arrived to this point. I'm a road designer, I deal with technical designs but I would like to be an illustrator. so, when I go back home from work, at six in the evening, I sit down in front of my computer or my leaf and I draw until one o' clock at night. To make manga illustration my only work is the dream of my life, it's what I try to do every day, working night and day. Manga illustration is like a language that now everyone can understand, maybe twenty years ago only kids know it but now that kids are adults and they have families, companies... and they can perfectly understand the language of Japanese cartoons or manga, so I think I will focus on manga illustration in the advertising world. I'm working on different types of projects, some on commission, some on my personal own or with other people with whom I've an affinity for the project. I think my character has been deeply influenced by Japanese cartoons, not so much for the cartoons but for the world in which I've inserted myself. At first I considered myself as a zombie: I went to the office, I came back home, I slept, I went to the office again. Since I discovered manga world I've a goal in my life, I want to become more and more good and that led me to meet a lot of people and from the shy guy that I used to be at the beginning now people know me as the outgoing one, the one who makes friends with everyone, the one who speaks to everyone. And it was a rapid change, in one year. My name is Giulio Sbrezzai, I was born in 1988, I'm a student of Oriental Languagesand Cultures at the University and I'm the drummer of Shinigami Squad. It's a cover band that makes covers of anime soundtracks. Now anime and manga culture is like a global culture, Everywhere you go you'll find people who know what an anime is and who have a passion for them. We are focused on Europe. We perceived that at the beginning of our concerts it was like we needed something more, so we chose to dress in original cosplay. The characters we play are chosen by us, they reflect an idealized figure of ourselves, so, when we're on the stage we are the cosplay that we play and we get undressed of our human being. The spirit is the spirit of persons who try to bring their passion on the stage and give it to the people. "CHAPTER ONE -- ANIME" ANIME It's the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese, where this term references all animation. I came in contact with cartoons world when I was a child, thanks to my mother, because I was very lively and to keep me calm, she led me watch everything on television, at that time in black and white. Those who born in 70's lived cartoons phenomenon in first person. That is I turned me into Kotetsu Jeeg and, wearing gloves, I leapt from the bed Or another example, Rocky Joe "RO RO RO Rocky Rocky..." I did boxing with him, wearing a tank top, Or another example, Rocky Joe "RO RO RO Rocky Rocky..." I did boxing with him, wearing a tank top, to understand a little bit his exertion, because I feel like I am him! Since I was a child I saw many cartoons, the one I loved more probably is Fist of the North Star, because I saw the all series, it was very violent, especially at that time,so it was like... wow! Seeing on television all that blood splashing from all parties twenty years ago was very scandalous, so it was very attractive. One thing I still keep inside me about that time is that I venerate heroes, especially the Japanese ones, it's the spirit of sacrifice, I still have it and I don't know if I would have had it even without having seen thousands of anime or if it is an influence that actually anime gave to me. My relationship with television was very close, it was the vehicle for the stories. I've seen Japanese cartoons before reading manga, just like everyone. I saw the anime in the version broadcast by Italian televisions, so I practically grew up watching Lady Oscar, Sailor Moon that was my great passion. Practically all what I watched was Japanese but I didn't know it. And, at that time, there were often anime for adults or teenagers in the time slot for children, because there wasn't a differentiation. So I didn't really understand them but I was fascinated by what I didn't understand, I was curious about it. I wanted to find it out. There are series I really consider as pillars of my identity because they helped me to grow up, they accompanied me during important moments of my life. They've been a very important part of my education, even just for my narrative education. Neon Genesis Evangelion is still the pillar of what I think a narrative work is, in my opinion there was everything. I could say it has been my more important anime. The spirit with which I watched them was the desire to know how they go on. When I was a child I used to watch television but not too much because my mother was always careful to not let me watch it too much. when I came home from kindergarten I used to watch the Knights of the Zodiac. We played it at school so you had to be updated on the latest things happened in the cartoon. In the morning, before going to school, we used to watch Heidi and everything you could find on television, usually there were always the same cartoons, like Dragon Ball now. I had the bad or good luck of growing up in front of television without anyone supervising me, so I watched just everything I wanted. I preferred the unofficial television networks like"Jtv" or "Italia 7 Gold" because they broadcast anime with original soundtracks and especially without censorships, had the good luck of growing in this way. I think it was a good luck because anyway censorships take away that sense of morality they want to give you. After all the typical Japanese story is a male character who usually spends his life without many expectations but, thanks to strange and fantastic encounters, he grows as a person and he becomes more and more a man, he takes difficult decisions, he sees persons suffer and you understand the meaning of friendship, courage, how to face problems.