The Importance Of Anime Lifestyles

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FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS (Need quotes form informants as data)
Through collecting and analyzing the data, researchers assume the Indonesian teenagers represent 3 Anime lifestyles as the following:
1. Representation of Youth Style Through The Use of Japanese Language (Plagiarism detected)
Anime originally uses Japanese language to convey the story and messages which comes with various languages of subtitle. Indonesian teenagers who like to watch Anime tend to use Japanese language within their daily lives as part of the communication. According to our analysis, All 4 interviewees have tendency to use Japanese words learnt from Anime. This is based on their opinions in the interviews as the following: (masukkan quote dari informan)

when they were asked to demonstrate pronouncing Japanese words or sentences which they learn from Anime. Researcher comes to this point after noticing and analyzing several words such as matte, onii-chan, and kimochi. The reasons why they like to use Japanese words are various, but mainly because they think that Japanese language is interesting or funny. It is as a result of watching how certain Anime characters use previous words in interesting manners of speech, or interesting situations which they can imitate in their daily lives. It is in accordance to Manion who explained that “people who like Anime, depending on their exposure to Japanese culture, tend to like many aspects of Japanese culture.” (Manion. 2005, p. 5) Researchers will give