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This page introduces you to manga and anime in Nature & Environment genres. In this genre, the relationship between humans and natural environments are often explored. Since Japan experiences many natural disasters, this theme plays an important in the manga and anime cultures.
Featured Animated Film - Princess Mononoke
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Princess Mononoke
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After Ashitaka develops a deadly virus, he travels the forests in search of a cure and becomes entangled in the bitter battles of the people that he meets.
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .P75635 2010ISBN: 0788820613 -
Princess Mononoke
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This gorgeously animated film is the brainchild of Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japans most acclaimed directors, and is Japans most successful film ever, breaking the attendance records previously set by E.T. This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story behind the making of the film, and reveals the secrets behind anime, the popular Japanese animation technique. Set in the remote forests of northern Japan, The Princess Mononoke is an eco-fable of medieval times in which industry and civilization struggle against nature and humanity. Hailed as one of the best animated features ever made, The Princess Mononoke is certain to enthrall audiences across the country.
ISBN: 0786866098Publication Date: 1999-09-29
Nature and Environment in the Library
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BEASTARS
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At this high school, instead of jocks and nerds, the students are divided into predators and prey. At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships maintain the fragile peace. Who among them will become a Beastar--a hero destined to lead in a society naturally rife with mistrust? One night at Cherryton Academy, an herbivore student is brutally murdered. Among the members of the Drama Club, the herbivores' suspicions naturally turn to their carnivore classmates... The prime suspect? Gray wolf Legoshi. But he wouldn't hurt a fly. Or would he? Will dwarf rabbit Haru bring out the beast in him? Or are his feelings for her...something else?
ISBN: 9781974707980Publication Date: 2019-07-16 -
Mu Shi Shi
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THEY HAVE EXISTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these deadly creatures, mushi, came into terrifying being. And they still exist and wreak havoc in the world today. Ginko, a young man with a sardonic smile, has the knowledge and skill to save those plagued by mushi . . . perhaps.
Call Number: PN6720.M874 M87413 2007ISBN: 9780345496218Publication Date: 2007-01-30 -
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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An epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki! In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving indistrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air.At the periphery of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes; and home to Nausicaä. Nausicaä, a young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources.
ISBN: 1591164087Publication Date: 2004-02-11 -
Lost World
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From the creator of Astro Boy and Metropolis, comes Lost World, the first of Osamu Tezuka's cycle of original science-fiction graphic novels-including Metropolis and Future World-published in the late 1940s and early 1950s. When a rogue planet approaches Earth, a team of scientists voyage to the world and discover a land out of the ancient past-a planet populated by dinosaurs!
ISBN: 1569718652Publication Date: 2003-07-15
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Silver Spoon: Gin no saji 銀の匙
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Call Number: PN6720.G569 G569 2011 -
動物の国 / Dōbutsu no Kuni
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Call Number: PN6720.D637 D637 2010ISBN: 4063842746Publication Date: 2010-2013 -
Nausicaä of the valley of the wind
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Call Number: DVD PN1997 .N387 2005ISBN: 9780788824005Publication Date: 2005 -
Princess Mononoke
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After Ashitaka develops a deadly virus, he travels the forests in search of a cure and becomes entangled in the bitter battles of the people that he meets.
Call Number: DVD PN1997 .P75635 2010ISBN: 0788820613
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Wolf's rain. 1, Leader of the pack
Call Number: DVD PN1992.77 .W65 2004 -
Tenki no ko = Weathering with you
"The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: DVD PN1997.5 .W438 2020ISBN: 6318298460 -
The red turtle
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Call Number: DVD PN1995.9.F36 R438 2017ISBN: 0043396499881Publication Date: 2017
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Fukushima and the Arts
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The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the first in-depth explorations of the cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular the ongoing nuclear disaster of Fukushima. This book explores a wide range of cultural responses to the Fukushima nuclear calamity by analyzing examples from literature, poetry, manga, theatre, art photography, documentary and fiction film, and popular music.
Call Number: PL726.87.F87 F85 2017ISBN: 9781138670587Publication Date: 2016-08-08 -
Ichi-F : a worker's graphic memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
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"Tatsuta was an amateur artist who signed onto the dangerous task of cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, which the workers came to call 'Ichi-F.' This is the story of that challenging work, of the trials faced by the local citizens, and of the unique camaraderie that developed between the mostly blue-collar workers who had to face the devious and invisible threat of radiation on a daily basis"--Back cover.
Call Number: PN6720.I35 I3513 2017Publication Date: 2017
