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Jan. 7th, 2014 12:49 am"Iyashikei (癒し系) is Japanese for "healing", a term used for anime and manga created with the specific purpose of having a healing or soothing effect on the audience. Works of this kind often involve alternative realities with little to no conflict, emphasizing nature and the little delights in life. "
I only just found this term over the weekend as due to having one of my semi-regular bouts of apathy and fatigue with superhero comics, I went back to some manga I'd had sitting for a while and trying to find some similar books and came across this while bouncing around TV Tropes and well, who thought there was an actual term for the stuff I really enjoy? Azumanga Daioh's one, several of the Studio GHibli movies and Yokohama Shopping Trip which I've just seen the anime of and is the most chilled out, laidback end of the world tale I've ever seen.
(Also one of my favourite movies, True Stories fits this too, a wonderfully weird but nice visit to a small American town by David Byrne)
Also, it encapsulates what I would love to do with Parts Unknown if I could ever get my arse in gear and write more of it. And Iyashikei Station immediately joins St. John's Limbo as a place name on whichever faraway planet things take place on.
I only just found this term over the weekend as due to having one of my semi-regular bouts of apathy and fatigue with superhero comics, I went back to some manga I'd had sitting for a while and trying to find some similar books and came across this while bouncing around TV Tropes and well, who thought there was an actual term for the stuff I really enjoy? Azumanga Daioh's one, several of the Studio GHibli movies and Yokohama Shopping Trip which I've just seen the anime of and is the most chilled out, laidback end of the world tale I've ever seen.
(Also one of my favourite movies, True Stories fits this too, a wonderfully weird but nice visit to a small American town by David Byrne)
Also, it encapsulates what I would love to do with Parts Unknown if I could ever get my arse in gear and write more of it. And Iyashikei Station immediately joins St. John's Limbo as a place name on whichever faraway planet things take place on.
