Artistic images as a reflection of changes in Japanese society: Dr. Kosaku Tokita in the anime "Paprika" by Satoshi Kona

The aim of the study was to trace how Japanese animation follows changes in society and reflects them through the prism of the author's vision. We have already studied this aspect using the example of a female artistic image. The subject of our current study is the artistic image of a modern man; the object was the image of a Japanese man in the anime "Paprika" by director Satoshi Kon. The novelty of the study can be defined as the introduction of new, previously unpresented material into scientific circulation. We did not find any works on the study of the male artistic image in Satoshi Kon's anime "Paprika". Compared to all the images of men in the anime "Paprika", it is the artistic image of Dr. Kosaku Tokita that turned out to be multifaceted, unusual, complex, and, along with national traditional features, in many ways innovative for Japanese anime of the early 21st century. This allows us to say that the place of the main male character in the anime "Paprika" by Satoshi Kon is certainly given to Kosaku Tokita, "mixing" the typical characteristics of traditional images and adding notes of modernity. By creating an artistic image, Satoshi Kon generalizes elements of real characters. Such an unusual artistic interpretation for Japanese anime is a confirmation of the fact that an artistic image is, first of all, a reflection of the world, society and culture. Satoshi Kon is a representative of Japanese society, which is rapidly changing, and Japanese culture is changing, its traditional images that have existed in the Japanese cultural space for centuries. The European viewer, due to the fact that the anime genre has gained wide popularity, naturally immerses himself in the environment of Japanese realities along with the fact that he is familiar with Western nuances, which are sufficiently saturated with modern Japanese animated films.