1 World Manga: Poverty - A Ray of Light

This video was developed to raise awareness of important development issues for an audience 8-14 years old. It is an animation based on a series of 6 manga dealing with microfinance, environment, poverty and more. The books are distributed to schools and some of the boards can be seen on YouThink -
http://youthink.worldbank.org/multimedia/gallery/manga_passage6/

Animated by Peach Blossom Media - Singapore
http://www.peachblossommedia.com/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Manga
• Animation
• Animated
• World
• Bank
• Poverty
• Cartoon

[Malaika924]

It's great to publish stuff like this: "anime with a message", and all.

But to be honest...I'm so glad I didn't have to pay for this.

[ALShettle]

Please add captions to this so that deaf and hard of hearing people can access it also.  Plus, audio descriptions for people with visual impairments.

[Simba92]

This is really incredible - I never thought I'd see the day where anime would have a good message such as this - to help children be aware of what's going on in the world and how they can help

But I really don't like how they made this into an American Anime type thing - it should be authentic Japanese anime.

[jayjayjay]

Aladdin: The Anime Years

[jonhavey]

Compelling story and tastefully done.

[Katzblager]

Can you say " Christopher Hart" ?  =/

[vamspapi]

The manga this is based on is actually pretty good(both dialogue and art-wise), but this anime adaptation is TERRIBLE. The majority of the good dialogue is gone, the characters are not fleshed out, and it feels like an animated After School Special. Read the manga, but DON'T watch the anime.

[CaptCamping]

this looks like US anime/manga clone from Cartoon Network, Fox Kids look alike, LOL

[kyoureshi]

I'm going to call shenanigans on this <_<;

[xXoOfallenangelOoXx]

yea its not manga its a manwa but i agree with you ppl who try to recreate manga are just....well manwa=very bad so plz ppl STOP MAKING MANWA manga is damn ncie the way it is

[catokeeffe]

Okay, what is the point of this exactly? I'm neither for or a against the world bank, but this whole thing makes it sound like they're saying people who disagree with them are all wife beaters. It really isn't going to win people over that way.