Il disegno animato giapponese di serie degli anni Ottanta. Storia, figure e linguaggio.

This dissertation is about the Eighties’ Japanese animated series, their formal and content characteristics will be analyzed in the following chapters. We point out that the anime we considered most are the ones that were broadcast in Japan during the Eighties, thus we do not refer to anime we saw on European or American television during those years. As a matter of fact, during that decade Japan produced the worldwide largest number of animated series as ever. The approach we will have in this research is mainly a pragmatic way of studying. We have to admit that we adopted the method above mentioned in a rough way. To specify, theoretical assumptions of pragmatics are shared: for this reason we examined Japanese animated series in concrete terms of semiotic level and psychological effects of anime on spectators. First and foremost, this study is a reconstruction of the historical period of Eighties’ animation production in Japan. This thesis is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter an historical overview will be given as exhaustive as possible; in the second one, the most common topics treated by aforementioned production will be discussed. Recurring characters will be shown in the third chapter. The forth chapter will be dedicated to aesthetics and formal levels and finally, in the fifth and last chapter, some animated series are analyzed since they are considered by who wrote this dissertation, the most significant examples of Japanese animation.