GENRE ANALYSIS: KAMISAMA MOU SUKOSHI DAKE (1998) - LOVE THAT MAKES YOU CRY (2016)

NURUL SYAZANA BINTI SHAMSURIZAL

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GENRE ANALYSIS

GENRE ANALYSIS:

KAMISAMA MOU SUKOSHI DAKE (1998) - LOVE THAT MAKES YOU CRY (2016)

Genre means a type or art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style. Genre also can be used as a category in any movies and television series to make and tell the story differently. In this task, I will do an analysis on the three genre approaches which are Aesthetic, Ritual, and Ideology.

 In order to make an analysis for the genre, I have chosen Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake which was released in 1998 with 12 episodes and Itsuka Kitto Kono Koi Wo Omoidashite Kito Naite Shimau or known as Love That Makes You Cry in 2016 with 10 episodes. Both are Japanese drama series from Fuji TV that comes with the same genre of romance and life.

Aesthetic Approaches

            The aesthetic approaches are where the genre is hybrid which means that genre in the series contains more than one genre. Based on those drama series, the aesthetic approaches that I have identify in Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake is that, it combines different genre like romance, life, drama, tragedy, and mature. Meanwhile, the genre for Love That Makes You Cry is romance and life.

Ritual Approaches

            The other way that approaches the genre is the ritual approaches where it is all about identify the subject, narrative, and events of the story. Besides, it can also relate with the culture. The ritual approaches in Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake is about teenage prostitution. Where in this drama, a teenager named Masaki Kano involved in prostitution for a concert ticket of her favourite composer, Ishikawa Keigo. The teenage prostitution in this drama shows the culture that happened in Japan which one of the reasons that leads them to prostitution is money. Plus, from the drama itself shows that prostitution is normal in Japan and surprisingly shows that no one even seems to care about it.

           

Meanwhile, based on the other drama called Love That Makes You Cry, where the ritual approaches show the community or the group of 6 young adult, struggling with their life to live in Tokyo and also dealing with complicated relationship with the person that they love. Especially for both, Sugihara Oto and Sonoda Ren who moved to Tokyo for a better job and struggle with the expenses to keep living in that big city in Japan including their feelings towards each other. I have identified that both of the drama did portray the everyday life of the characters but with different the kind of situation and challenges.

Ideological Approaches

            Last but not least, the ideological approaches which is the idea or the main control of the genre to create the stories. Both Japanese drama that I have chosen shared the same genre which are romance and life. In Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake, the drama shows the pure romance between a teenager, Masaki Kano with a HIV and a composer, Ishikawa Keigo. Instead of the romance between Masaki and Keigo, another idea that makes this drama even more interesting is when the drama is actually about Ishikawa Keigo is learning love again after losing his previous lover and Masaki as the new light in his life helping and guide him towards that goal.

            Different with the drama Love That Makes You Cry, the idea of the story is about Sugihara Oto and Sonoda Ren are mirror to each other where both understand each other situations when they have trouble or something that bothers. Both having feelings towards each other and it is interesting on how the idea of both, Oto and Ren crossing paths after moving to Tokyo, learning and experiencing the life, love life and making decisions as a young adult before they end up being together at the end.

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