A Perspective of Cultural Differences between China and Japan from Animation

Japanese culture is a pluralistic and integrated culture. You can see both its traditional side and its modern side. From the animation, you can find that both traditional culture, such as witches and monsters, and modernity, such as various modern stories and even science fiction stories, are the themes of Japanese animation. In addition, due to the influence of Japanese traditional ideas, the identification of good and evil is not particularly obvious. In animation, we often see the villains in the early stage join us in the later stage.

China culture pays more attention to tradition. From China's early animation, such as making a scene in Heaven, ancient myths and legends or traditional folk stories are basically the themes. Even in modern stories, many stories emphasize all kinds of rules and regulations, and it is difficult to be innovative (photoelectric, not recognized = =). Another feature is that there is a clear distinction between good and evil, and justice always triumphs over evil, which basically does not happen in Japanese animation.