SANTOS, Juliana Silva dos.
Abstract:
Contemporary society is going through a singular moment of revolution and technological evolution and dystopia has become extremely sensitive to the ethical debate about futuristic projections, which began in the 19th century with the advent of science fiction. Dystopian narratives bring as content the dissatisfaction of their forms of government and mass control mechanism against ideas of freedom and reinforce in a world parallel to reality itself, even more destructive and problematic. The goal of this paper is to analyze the initial volumes of the manga Attack on Titan (2009) by author Hajime Isayama and Darling in the Franxx (2018) by Kentaro Yabuki, exploring dystopian elements in both narratives of post-apocalyptic plots. As for the methodological character, it is configured as bibliographic and documentary related to the analysis of manga. For the theoretical foundation of this research, written studies by Silva (2008) on the concept of utopia and dystopia in narratives were used; Gravett and Luyten (2006 and 2011) of the conception of the manga genre; Baldessin and Eco (2006 and 1986) who address the theme of science fiction in literature and other texts; and Cordaro and Melo (2016) who explore dystopian elements in the postwar world that contributed to post-apocalyptic manga content. Given the above, this work was possible to establish similarities with some works even though they are from different texts among them: such as 1984 (1949), A Clockwork Orange (1962), Brave New World (1932), “Supertoys last all summer long” (1982), Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994), however remaining characteristic of Japanese comics.
