아니메(アニメ)와 일본 소년(상)의 기로(岐路)－<진격의 거인(進撃の巨人)>과 <원펀맨(ワンパンマン)>을 중심으로－

Abstract

<Attack on Titan> and <One Punch-Man> represent the turning point of the postwar/Japanese/ boy image described by anime. In anime, the growth of boys has shown the tendency to desire a large and strong body. The anime archive which has been built from the mid-20th century to the early-21th century is no less than the history of the succession and improvement of such desire. In the same vein, <Attack on Titan> and <One Punch-Man> published by a young writer in the 21th century, who was once a boy reader in the 20th century are symbolic texts allowing to estimate the diverged direction of the Japanese boy image to be described by anime in the future. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to examine who the sub-cultures in Japan construct the 21th century boy image, by analyzing two animations, the historical inflection points of anime. At first, <Attack on Titan> succeeds the lineage of the mechanic anime which is seemingly unrelated with it. The anime complicatedly jumbles the world history as long as 100 years from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, through storytelling called the hybrid history. Such complication obscures the causation between offense and damage, between responsibility and compensation, between redemption and forgiveness, which has been relatively clearly distinguished in the real history. On the other hand, <One Punch-Man> is placed at the lineage of fighting anime called the royal road of juvenile anime. The anime often betrays the expectant horizon formed based on longstanding reading and watching, through the combination between very familiar forms and not a little fabulous content. It, therefore, deceitfully challenges the formula and grammar of it, which have been accumulated across the half century after the war. Both <Attack on Titan> and <One Punch-Man> are debatable works vividly showing the turning point between two extremes that the postwar/Japanese/ boy image faced, which has been described by the 20th century anime.