Conserving Nature Representation in Miyori no Mori Anime as a Teaching Media for Children’s Moral Education

Wachyu Nur Fauzy,T.R Soeprobowati,B Warsito,T Triadi Putranto

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202131702020

Abstract

This paper discusses moral education in Miyori no Mori anime. Moral education exists in this anime as a teaching about the importance of conserving nature. Miyori no Mori is an anime about Miyori, an 11 years old girl who moved from Tōkyō into the Komori countryside. Miyori, as the chosen guardian by the yōkai forest spirit of the Komori’s forest, attempts to protect the countryside forest from a corporation that wants to build a dam inside the forest by destroying the whole forest area and jeopardizing the countryside. Representations of conserving nature in the anime can be observed through the conveyed moral values message explicitly and implicitly present in this anime. This paper aims to explain the conveyed messages of the Japanese moral education inside the anime for the importance of maintaining the core value belief by protecting the nature in between society to conserving nature. This paper methodology uses sociology of literature, the primary data object of this paper taken from the anime’s characters interaction, behaviours, and conflicts by descriptive analyzing then reinterpret, represent, and conclude the analysis of moral education importance for conserving nature. The results suggested that Japanese’s moral values and environmental ethics are represented.

Highlights

Today many people think that literature only covers social problems of human relations, such as social problems regarding psychology, religion and education
The researcher assumed that the delivery of messages of moral values in the anime Miyori no Mori is divided into two types, namely direct delivery and indirect delivery
Some of the actions of implementing moral values of environmental ethical principles through representations of conserving nature is shown in this anime as follows: 1. Nature and noble relation moral value

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Today many people think that literature only covers social problems of human relations, such as social problems regarding psychology, religion and education. In creating a literary work, a literary creator can raise environmental issues It is full of moral messages about how important and valuable the environment is to be kept, maintained and preserved so that life can continue. Even though anime is very different from the form of conventional written literary works, this work can still be classified as a literary work This is because anime displays symbols, pictures, or illustrations in telling the story. This is in line with the assumption that literary works come from fairy tales or story content and can be seen from a way of delivery. Based on this statement, it can be stated that anime can be classified as a part of literary work

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