In History, I was thinking about it and asked myself about the old times when Japan wasn't good friends with us. Like, I just remembered WWII though today we cherished their cultures and the like. I'm thinking of WWII because of the bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed thousands of people involved in the bombing. When I first heard it why was Anime even born?
Now that Anime is widely known media which become admired by many fans of today as it goes on. As Anime Fans grow fond of Anime they widely learned the Japanese languages and cultures, Manga (Japanese Comics), Doujinshi (Is a fan made comics for an ideal anime) and also recognize the game development. From what I've learned about due to my Otaku friends who shares a lot of influences.
Then I found this source of information from Wikipedia :
So In brief information:
Anime (Ah-knee-may) from the abbreviation of the word animation are also known Japanese Cartoons. It's History began at the start of the 20th century, a time were Japanese filmmakers are experimenting animation techniques from France, Germany, the United States, and Russia. In attempt the oldest anime that existed first showed in Anime was a 2-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat. Though as Anime got in the overseas markets by 1930's it suffered competition from the Westerns Cartoons. In 1960's Osamu Tezuka start simplifying with the techniques in the use animation. Until 1970's an increase of popularity, since Japanese are incorporated with technology they instead develop a new genre as you can see that is Mecha and Super Robot as a sub-genre which made them more known that surpassed Western Cartoons. With the help of creative simple art, epic storytelling, and great character development.
Thanks to the the work of Osamu Tezuka he grew attention and has been called "legend" and "god of manga". This inspired a lot of animators and filmmakers through the characteristics and genres of his works that made the Anime of today.
By 1980's this begun an new era for the generation of Anime dominance. Started developing under the genre of Super Robot Animes like Gundam and The Super Dimension Fortress Macross that became a common genre for Anime lovers of today's anime. It started a boom in Japan's career in animation entertainment.
Anime Games were already implemented and Manga was increasingly bought. As times flows other successful production of animes at the foreign markets followed the legend's footsteps until the 21st Century. Anime right now never runs out of ideas of awesome animation. Since this happened Conventions were implemented to gather anime seekers out there. Its an event that encounters selling of anime products were anime lovers gather and some cosplaying.
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| At Odaiba a real life size Gundam \(>u<)/ |
It really went popular since Japanese are incorporated with technology they instead develop a new genre as you can see that is Science fiction or Mecha which made them more famous that surpass from western animation. That's why the first streaming of anime here in the Philippines was Voltes V that was more on robots which I had even watched from experience only dubbed in Tagalog. From my childhood no wonder toy robots have started to become popular back then.
As a result, I further understand the fact why Japanese has so many fans until now they still pass it down to generation after another. Also because of the expansion of popularity my favorite genre Mecha. It's as if a pride to be distinct from the works accomplished by the westerns. This is what I love about the fact they can make good Artworks of characters and best storytelling I've ever watch on media.
