Ye Lv, Hongya Zhou

Hongya Zhou

March 31, 2026

Sekai-kei Anime, Japanese animation, Animation narrative.

Japanese animation has exerted a remarkable global influence with its distinctive cultural export strength, maintaining a unique position in both artistic and commercial aspects, and establishing an independent animation art system as well as an innovative and cutting-edge narrative cultural form. Taking Japanese Sekai-kei anime as the primary research subject, this study explores its narrative design features, analyzes and summarizes the narrative elements and expressive styles through which Sekai-kei anime reflects social reality via characters’ psychology, further comprehends the narrative expression structure as well as cross-cultural design and communication strategies of Japanese animation, and thus provides more diversified development paths for animation art in terms of themes and narrative logic.

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