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Japan’s Love of Baseball
(The final volume in Takuya Mistuda’s epic baseball drama, MAJOR.)
Recently, I was reading the first omnibus of Mitsuru Adachi’s Cross Game and thinking about the appeal of baseball in Japan. Baseball is considered to be one of top 3 spectator sports, if not the number 1 spectator sport in Japan. Is it perhaps of the clubhouse environment and the team spirit that emphasizes Japanese culture?
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Mental Health Month: Cross Game & Coping With Loss
(The following is a guest post by Charles of Beneath the Tangles. Thank you, Charles, for providing a great article!)
May is Mental Health Month, a time to emphasize the importance of mental wellness and to spread awareness of mental health conditions. As such, Manga Therapy is addressing anime or manga characters who have overcome the challenges of mental trauma. Tony has been so nice as to allow me to write a guest post on this topic.
While many encounter depression or another mental health condition personally, one area that will affect all of us sometime in our lives is death. Although the topic is often used for shock value in anime and manga (I’m singling you out, Code Geass), every once in a while, a mangaka or animator will create a work that instead treats bereavement in a most sensitive way. Perhaps no mangaka consistently tackles the issue of death and bereavement with more heart than Mitsuru Adachi, which he masterfully demonstrates through the series, Cross Game.
