ANADOLU UNIVERSITESI SANAT & TASARIM DERGISI-ANADOLU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN, cilt.7, sa.7, ss.31-59, 2014 (ESCI)
Anime and manga culture have important values to be researched and learnt due to high production of Far East comics art; reflection of history, religion, culture and philosophy to the themes; and their different styles from Western cartoons and comics. Such original and succesful works in cartoons art of Japan apart from a wide industry like Disney in West can only be possible with the artists' strong connections to their culture, history, art and philosophy as well as the connections between old-new and East-West.