Iyashikei
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Iyashikei (癒し系) is a genre specific to Japanese works, primarily manga and anime. It is a sub-genre of slice of life, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, and is intended to have a healing effect on the audience. The word iyashikei could mean \"healing type\" or just \"healing\" in Japanese.[1][2][3] Shaenon K Garrity of Otaku USA wrote that in iyashikei works, \"the focus is less on character and plot, more on worldbuilding and creating an immersive visual setting\".[4]
Even though many iyashikei creations seem to have a strong escapist basis, the goal is not only to offer a means of getting away from daily worries, but to let the audience embrace a calming state of mind by using familiarity and simplicity, and appealing to fundamentally positive emotions. As these works tend to involve normal people in normal situations, this trope often overlaps with Slice of Life. Other tropes often associated with iyashikei are Arcadia, Ghibli Hills and Scenery Porn.
Western Animation Bee and Puppycat is a series about a dorky, friendly young woman who befriends a cat-dog-thing, whereupon they go accept temp-job contracts across a Sugar Bowl universe known as Fishbowl Space. Despite being adult animation, the entire show is appropriate for all ages and revels in being soft and adorable the same way South Park revels in the gross. There's very little in the way of unsympathetic villains or conflict and even the show's villains are of the chatty, non-threatening punch-clock type. Bluey: This slice-of-life series features cute canine characters, along with several heartwarming friendship and family scenes. The creator stated that he made the show because he missed playing with his children. ChalkZone is the cutest and sweetest of the Nicktoons lineup. Its' Puni Plush art style and imaginative plots make it a comforting watch after a bad day. Elinor Wonders Why can best be described as \"cute animals doing cute things.\" The series shows the beauty of nature while also having zero inter-character conflicts (the closest thing the show has to conflicts are Elinor's questions about the world around her). Harvey Beaks focuses on telling laid-back stories that have heart and emotional connection with the audience. Kipper exists for the express purpose of being a \"refreshing pace for today's busy kids.\" It has a slow pace along with soothing dialogue and adorable characters. Little Bear is about a cub and his daily life in the 1930s countryside, along with his family and friends. It has a gentle pace, a classical music soundtrack, and plenty of Scenery Porn. Maggie and the Ferocious Beast is a joyful celebration of imagination and friendship. The Ferocious Beast is anything but. Oswald has one of the kindest protagonists in all of fiction, plus a gentle pace and almost no conflict between characters. Sarah & Duck is a gently-paced series that focuses on the simple joys of everyday life, backed with muted colors and a relaxing soundtrack. Steven Universe, when it's not opting for a sci-fi space opera story or a delve into the psychological corruption of a character, often makes use of this trope by easing its audience into natural, real-life struggles that it calmly gives solutions for, whilst making it clear that not all problems can easily go away. Stand-out examples of iyashikei episodes include \"Alone Together\", \"Sworn to the Sword\", \"When It Rains\", \"Same Old World\", \"Bubbled\", \"Mindful Education\", \"Back to the Kindergarten\", \"Pool Hopping\", \"Can't Go Back\", \"Snow Day\", \"Why So Blue\", \"In Dreams\", \"Bismuth Casual\", and \"Mr. Universe\". Steven Universe's sense of healing worked so well with audiences, that the Dove Self-Esteem Project teamed up with the Crewniverse to make shorts encouraging body positivity and mental confidence. The whole modus operandi of Summer Camp Island is \"comfort.\" It achieves just that with its' soothing music, adorable character designs, pastel color scheme, and generally light-hearted tone. We Bare Bears features a trio of bears - a grizzly bear, a polar bear, and a panda trying to live normal lives among humans. Hilarity usually ensues.
Well, that's where iyashikei comes in. Known as \"healing\" anime, these movies and shows are typically slice-of-life stories with calming content and plenty of depictions of nature. Stripped of any significant tension or outlandish comedy, the best iyashikei anime provide nourishment for the heart and mind.
Updated September 3, 2022 by Mark Sammut: Iyashikei anime do not come around often enough. For instance, the currently airing Summer 2022 season does not include a show that truly fits the bill, even though there are a few slice of life series that come close. With the many frustrations and challenges offered by normal life, jumping into a peaceful world with very little in the way of stakes can be a relief. To make that process as simple as possible, a few more great iyashikei anime have been added to this article.
Sports anime are not great candidates for iyashikei since there is usually a competitive element to their stories. Anima Yell! is the exception as it centers around a cheerleader club whose main priority is to spread good vibes and make a few friends along the way.
Barakamon is hilarious, more so than the average iyashikei anime. While the laughs are plentiful, they stem from a place of unbridled positivity and growth, particularly once Seishu's early angst subsides.
In a filmography that consists of almost nothing but masterpieces, Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro still stands out as being something extra special. The definitive iyashikei movie, Studio Ghibli's 1988 classic follows a family as they move to the countryside so that a family member can heal.
When it comes to iyashikei anime series, Non Non Biyori is the standard-bearer. Set in a rural village and primarily following a group of five students, Non Non Biyori is happy to just let its characters exist free of conflict, tension, or drama.
The main goal of iyashikei is to heal the audience. As I said in my first post on the topic, iyashikei series are intended to create an emotional reaction that brings catharsis, lowering raised moods while simultaneously presenting a beautiful experience to observe.
I would say that iyashikei can come in two forms, an elemental form and a genre form. Ghibli movies and such incorporate many healing elements but shy away from slice of life, and so iyashikei is just an element to them. Certain slice of life shows however fully embrace iyashikei, so I would consider it a genre in those instances.
That being said, the heroines do face challenges, like finding themselves in an unfamiliar place after dark with no way of contacting home. However, any obstacles in iyashikei anime are almost always instantly resolved or mitigated so that the story can get to the heart of the genre: finding happiness in the little things, like how amazing a hot drink or a steaming cup of ramen can feel on a cold night, or the simple joy of successfully putting up a tent and building a fire.
In my meager explorations of Japanese literature, I've noticed a peaceful and sometimes pensive feeling similar to the tone of many iyashikei, especially in the poetry. It seems that iyashikei is a genre with pretty deep roots in Japanese culture, so I'd expect it to take off early on in anime.
I'm curious what the earliest iyashikei anime or manga was. The earliest I knew of was Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, from 1994; the Reddit essay mentions the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday, from 1991. Are there any earlier Given my hypothesis that iyashikei came from a longstanding and uniquely Japanese cultural perspective, it seems like there should have been.
Series this old wouldn't have been identified as iyashikei at the time (even Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and Only Yesterday seem to predate the term), but if modern fans would identify it as iyashikei or something similar, it's potentially an answer.
Today, content creators have a well-worn library of narrative approaches that they can use to make their work iyashikei (e.g. \"cute girls doing cute things\"), and so we can look at a present-day work and see how it uses these approaches to effectively \"heal\" the audience. Alternatively, we can look at how a work comports itself relative to \"canonically\" iyashikei works that it discourses with, like Aria and so forth.
But when we look at works that predate the iyashikei \"canon\" and its associated library of approaches, how do we effectively evaluate whether a work is or is not iyashikei Based on how it makes you feel, I guess.1 But that doesn't help us come up with a good answer to \"which was the first\". That's the issue - it's simply rather difficult to say what is or is not iyashikei the further into the past you go.
While it is, on the whole, a calm and relaxing movie, and happens to employ some of the narrative trappings common to modern iyashikei works (wistfulness for rural Japan, in particular), it pairs these elements with decidedly un-healing bits, like the various mishaps Taeko experiences during her childhood, and the obstacles she faces in her budding relationship with Toshio. It is a beautiful slice of Japanese life, but is it healing No, at least not to me.
If we lifted Only Yesterday out of 1991 and released it for the first time in 2016, would we call it iyashikei I don't think so. It is not, in my view, substantially in discourse with the modern \"iyashikei canon\".
There's something of an argument that the crystallization of iyashikei in the late 90s as a Thing (throughout Japanese media; not just in the otaku realm) is a direct response to the trouble Japan was experiencing at the time - the bubble had just burst, and Japan was really reeling for the first time since World War II. This explanation is pretty reductive, and it'd be silly to claim that the economy is the only (or even primary) cause, but it seems uncontroversial that Japan's national woes at the time did contribute to the reification of iyashikei. 59ce067264
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