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mind over matter
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I'm looking for an anime about a Japanese student who moves to America. You know how many Animes have an American transfer student? well, I would like an anime about a Japanese student who transfers to America and then the story (or the sub plot) is about how he adjusts to the new culture.
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bonbonsrus
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Wow, I really tried to think of some, and couldn't some up with much of anything.
I know in Kaleido Star the main character Sora comes to America from Japan, but other than that fact, the show isn't really about her adjusting to life in America or cultural differences. The only other anime that comes readily to mind, that I know of, is in the later episodes of Marmalade Boy one of the main characters does transfer to school here in America to study, and I think it may have touched a bit on some differences, but again not enough I can recomend that show for what you are looking for. I can't believe I can't think of others, it doesn't seem like it would be such a scarce topic, I am sure others may be able to come up with something. |
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Key
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Anime set in the modern-day U.S. are very rare; the only two I can think of are Gunsmith Cats and Red Garden, and none of them fits what's being asked for here. (I don't count Miami Guns, since that's clearly not what we Americans know as Miami, and Chrono Crusade, while set in the U.S., wasn't a present-day series.) I kinda doubt an anime featuring a Japanese exchange student living in the U.S. exists, although you might be more likely to find something like that in manga.
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mind over matter
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alright thanks. I am kind of surprised that there would be nothing like that created.
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Tony K.
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Well, I would think it's because no one has "personal experience." If you think about it, most manga/anime are written by people who have lived in Japan for a majority of their lives. In order to make a believable story that depicts this culture barrier, you'd either have to experienced the process for yourself or have done extensive research. But my guess is, if someone from Japan had actually experienced that, they more than likely would've ended up staying in America, rather than live in Japan, move to America for schooling, then come back to Japan to write a manga/anime about it. It's just an issue of logistics and the difficulty in how life works out between a child and his/her emergence into adulthood. I'm sure you could find plenty of regular novels/movies about this, but I doubt many manga/anime-related people have experienced such an event. |
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NocturnalUX
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Actually, I do know of a series that includes a Japanese student going to America: in Gravitation Yuki moves to New York to study when he is 16. The series does not deal with his adaptation to the States, though. While very relevant to the plot, the incidents that take place in America are told via short flashback sequences, most of the action takes place in Japan. |
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sailornyanko
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That's the same reason why you don't see Latin America decipted in reality in anime. How many mangakas have even travelled to Mexico or Brazil as tourists? I had a hard time wondering whether they were referring to Mayan or Toltec pyramids in that episode of Getbackers. At least they kinda got the clothing right with the possibly Bolivian indians Apollo meets in an episode of Zatch Bell. Heck, I'm really surprised Keinichi Sonoda did such a good job researching about Chicago for GunSmith Cats. He draws real buildings of that city, the characters actually act American and you have a half ethnic Pakistani as the lead character. I think there is one anime that could be close to what the original poster wants: Gun Frontier. Takes place in western USA during somewhere in the 1800's. Group of Japanese immigrants move to the US in the hopes of a better living and try to adapt to the racism and overall lifestyle of the locals. Tochiro befriends Harlock and Sinnuoula in what is seen to the racist locals as an abomination since he's really short and not white and a lot of interesting events happen during the series, usually involving someone trying to hang Tochiro for no reason and some random guy scoring a hot Japanese babes who ends up killing herself. Nice. |
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