Analisis Kehidupan Homeless dalam Anime Tokyo Godfathers (Kajian Sosiologi) Tokyo Godfathers No Anime Ni Okeru Hōmuresu Seikatsu No Bunseki (Shakai-Gaku No Kenkyū)

Abstract

Japan is a developed country, especially in the fields of technology and economics, with mass media playing a large role in its society. Anime and manga are a key part of Japanese popular visual culture and have also played an important role in shaping the global mediascape. The anime Tokyo Godfathers, by Satoshi Kon, is an anime that raises the social issue of homelessness and can shape the global mediascape or provide viewers with a view of homeless life in Japan. This research aims to analyze the lives of homeless people and the views of Indonesian people in Japan towards homeless people in the anime Tokyo Godfathers. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method, with note-taking and survey data collection techniques, namely by watching the anime Tokyo Godfathers, then analyzing conversation scenes and distributing questionnaires to several Indonesian people in Japan as respondents. The theories used to analyze the data are literary sociology theory and representation theory. Literary sociology theory is used to analyze literary works in the form of anime, namely the anime Tokyo Godfathers and representation theory is used to understand respondents' views on homeless people in the anime Tokyo Godfathers. The results of this research show that the anime Tokyo Godfathers depicts the life of homeless people in Japan, such as housing, health, how to survive, and the stigma attached to homelessness. The anime Tokyo Godfathers can also shape and change the audience's view of homeless people.