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Princess Japan

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Princess Japan

Manga, Anime, Comics, Cartoons and Videogames: Not Only Japan

Videogames, in fact, often come from cartoons and comics, but in the latest years Japan is not their only native country: just think about SpongeBob SquarePants and the Winx, respectively born in the USA and in Italy.

The Sonic games, instead, come from the land of the rising sun: their character, a blue hedgehog, was born to contrast the beloved plumber Mario, huge success of Nintendo's, but the new hero of children and teenagers is American and his name is Ben10: the Ben10 games are popular among the boys all over the world.
Summing up, while the classical tennis and animal games carry on amusing children of any age, the new cartoons and videogames enter into the homes of every child and teenager, from 4 to 18, with involving adventure, talking about aliens and far worlds, dangerous enemies won thanks to superpowers conquered with mysterious objects.

Some series give life to imaginary characters, like Sonic, who, as we said, is a blue hedgehog with superpowers - in particular, he is faster than sound (hence the name "Sonic") and challenges various enemies, or like SpongeBob, whose protagonist lives in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, on the Pacific Ocean's seabed. The cartoon, hence the videogames, tell us about the life of the happy and careless protagonist and his fellow citizens.

In other series, instead, the protagonists are normal boy and girls, just like their audience: we are talking, for example, about Ben10 and the Winx. Ben10, that is Benjamin Tennyson, is a normal 10 year old boy who, while camping with his grandpa and his cousin, goes into the woods and sees a lights landing on the ground: curious, he goes nearer to see what it is, and he founds a strange kind of watch-bracelet, the Omnitrix, which closes on his wrist and changes him into an alien of fire. From this moment on, the adventures of Ben10 start: learning how to use the bracelet, he will discover how to change into different aliens, and will face up different enemies.

The protagonist of the Winx as well is a normal girls, Bloom, who finds herself into a magical dimension because she discovers that she has magical powers; Stella, who actually is the princess of the planet Solaria, brings her there. In the dimension where they move, they attend a school of magic and form the Winx group together with other friends and schoolmates, they get engaged with guys of another school and they challenge their enemies, the Trix.

The creation of fantastic worlds which start from normal situations contributes to identify in the plot, helping to create the thought that, who knows?, what happens in the TV series could be possible: the characters are real and, after all, "it might happen". The series with completely invented characters, instead, stimulate fantasy making children see glaringly invented characters, like Sonic or SpongeBob, even though they can vaguely be connected with reality: SpongeBob lives in a city on the Pacific Ocean seabed. Who knows...

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This article was written by Lia Contesso, with support from

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