In what ways might Akira, Nausicaā and Mononoke be considered prescient?
I have discovered five features in common from the aforementioned three anime:
1. People, especially the authorities try to achieve and utilize the superpower or advanced weapon to control the world or other social resources.
2. Humanization, civilization and society have been destroyed due to the greedy of humans.
3. Advanced weapons or superpower are the tools to damage and invade, however, people’s arrogant and greedy are key factors behind the technologies and weapons.
4. Human underestimates the power and punishment of nature, and they do not consider that other life or spices are also imperatives as human in the world.
5. The authority can decide innocent people’s lives and decisions.
According to the aforementioned three anime, all authorities from those anime try to gain and utilize the superpower to conquer, reign or control the world and other social resources. The tragic and disaster in ‘Akira’ are that government use human to experiment and thus they can control that powerful person as a weapon. In the anime ‘Mononoke’, people killed the holly creature in the jungle for gaining its immortal power. In the ‘Nausicaā’, countries control the advanced weapon to invade each other and poison and burn the forest for creating more living spaces whereas they do not know that the forest is the filter to purified poison water and air. Several ideas from those anime amazed me that they produced for 30 years and many stories and scenes have become true nowadays. For instance, people deforest to build more resident area, do not respect other spices and invade their living space, poison the water and air. Particularly, Japan government recently decided to dump over one million tons of nuclear contaminated water into the ocean, and environmental groups state that this decision is a disaster for all ocean lives as it might bring fatal impact to all the marine spices and even include other mammal lives that live on land (Zhigang, 2020). This consideration is supported by several scholars. Vaughan (2020) discover that many sciences assert to monitor the procedure of disposal of contaminated water and following treatments even though the wastewater might have less potential to harm marine lives if Japan government follows and completes every step to filter the water and meet the standard to release. Another prescient from these anime is that people’s desire power, to produce and control it as a weapon and thus some countries can utilize it to conquer others without caring for the innocent citizens. More importantly, those three anime alarm people that humans should aware of both advantages and disadvantages of technologies as it might not bring peace to humans, instead, it is potential jeopardy to the stability of society, development and civilization if the authorities utilize it improperly.
References
Vaughan, A. (2020). Should Japan dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258055-should-japan-dump-radioactive-water-from-fukushima-into-the-ocean/#ixzz6cF2bVhXx
Zhigang, D. (2020). Japan dumping nuclear contaminated water into ocean sparks global outrage. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1203850.shtml#:~:text=The%20Japanese%20government%20is%20about,power%20plant%20into%20the%20sea.&text=Diluting%20the%20contaminated%20water%20and,to%20reduce%20short%2Dterm%20costs.
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