2025/03/17 by Andrea Keene · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Japanese History and Culture
paper · doi:10.1080/09555803.2025.2476477
openalex publication_date 2025/03/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13
This article seeks to find how Japanese animation can function as both protest art and a valid text of ecocinema. It looks at the advocacy for the environment, which can be seen considerably during the late 20th century in four anime productions: Pom Poko directed by Isao Takahata, Nausicaä: Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Blue Gender directed by Masashi Abe. The article seeks to demonstrate that anime, can go beyond mere banal entertainment, acting as protest art and developing a social critique, which creatively protests environmental issues in an increasingly striking manner to encourage the conversation of a global human responsibility from the audience and as a valuable source for ecocriticism.