Japanese Anime’s Impact On Chinese Youths

China and Japan hold a long history of anime and cartoon. This uniqe type of art emerges in both countries long ago at approximately the same time. While their development starts from simply mimicing catoon animation of western countries such as US and France, their own styles have already been forming respectively by now. Nowadays, however, the Chinese domestic cartoons and animations are regarded by the crowd as entertainments specified for enfants and very young children, whose level of understanding and aesthetic appreciation inevitable imposes a narrow limitation on both the stroyline and art form throughout the creation process of cartoon animation, affected by the prejudiced presumption, Chineses cartoons often only have a very naive topic, embedded in a repeated content, their theme are always trying to "preaching" the young viewers. As a result, maybe they are good enough to entertain lovely enfants and young children, even their parents, but they are definitely not interesting enough, and often boring, for modern teenagers.The story of Japanese anime and cartoon is quite different. Their cartoon roles have vivide and delicate appearance, their stories are also sophisticated but intense. Besides, they developed a very rich classification system in which people at almost all ages(3to80) could find their favorite categories and types without much difficulties. According to media reports:Janpese hold a big60%share of global cartoon business(29%for western countries’, and only11%for Chinese cartoons). Notably, the majority of the audience are those modern teenagers. China, as the most crowded country, has0.36billions of teenagers out of its overall1.3billion population, most of them find it not easy to have their own interesting Chinese cartoon or anime materials, so they have to turn to a substitution such as TV shows,internet entertainments for growups, or even try to watch piracy copies of Japonese cartoon. Under such an irregular and negative tendency, cartoon industry and businese in China have been gradually taken up by foreign cartoon animation industries. With an enormous amount of abruptly incoming Japanese anime, there are indeed certain postive effects on mental development of young Chinese generation in terms of various aspects, such as designing of characters apperances, color configurations, dialogues with a taste of humor, inspiring and motivating story plots, and a wider range selection of themes. Despite of it, however, imperceptibly but undeniably,those elements with sexual, violent and moral-problematic materials often contained in Japanese cartoon animation imposes negative effects especially on the morality and conscience level of young Chinese generation’s mind which in a way are setting obstacles to their growing process and career roadmap. Nowaday, some China’s social issues especially, juvenile delinquency are apparently related to those negetive influence undergone by naive youth people. Culture transmission and injection can be considered as a silent competition between Chinese culture and Japanese culture, and every culture has its own properties suitable for its nation and people. Given the psychological stimulation caused by ethnic cultures, it is not easy to prevent some of the intrigued Chinese young generation from imitating and emulating actions, which necessarily lead to a series of unwanted social issues, such as ignorance of the value of morality, deterioration of civilized behaviour, self-autistic life stlye, or even sexual Indulgen。...