Anime: An Introduction - Part 1
Anime is a Japanese variation of the English world animation and is applied to all forms of Japanese animated material, whether they are film or television. Although used to describe all kinds of animated material (including western releases) in Japan, Anime is used by the western world to represent those animated titles that originate in Japan.
Traditionally, Anime is hand drawn, but with the advent of computers, more and more are created with CGI elements. But the bandwagon to jump on board has not been as radical or epic as the western studios. This shift from hand drawn to computer generated is still a work in progress in Japan.
One of the major factors that separate Japanese Animation from other animations is the prevalence and abundance of Anime itself. In Japan, there is Anime that caters for people across the social, economic and cultural boundaries. They range from wholesome family films such as titles from Studio Ghibli through to extreme acts of sexual and violent behaviour for those 18 or over. It's this wide range of titles that has garnered Anime such an enormous fan base both in Japan and around the world.
Popular Japanese Manga's are the ancestors of Japanese Anime; again, something that separates the Japanese animated media from the rest of the world. Manga is what can be described as the Japanese form of comic books and is actually more popular in Japanese society than Anime itself. Not only that, it makes up a large proportion of the sales in the Japanese book industry, raking in $4.4 Billion US Dollars in 2007 alone, something that the American and European comic industry envy very much.
Much like Anime, Manga is viewed as more acceptable and mainstream than would be seen outside of Japan. Indeed it's not uncommon to see crowds of people, of all ages and backgrounds, converging upon the local convenience store and browsing the huge selection of Manga every night. And again the content of the titles are all over the demographic scale, with adult oriented Manga sitting next to Pokemon and Doraemon on the shelf. - 2361
Traditionally, Anime is hand drawn, but with the advent of computers, more and more are created with CGI elements. But the bandwagon to jump on board has not been as radical or epic as the western studios. This shift from hand drawn to computer generated is still a work in progress in Japan.
One of the major factors that separate Japanese Animation from other animations is the prevalence and abundance of Anime itself. In Japan, there is Anime that caters for people across the social, economic and cultural boundaries. They range from wholesome family films such as titles from Studio Ghibli through to extreme acts of sexual and violent behaviour for those 18 or over. It's this wide range of titles that has garnered Anime such an enormous fan base both in Japan and around the world.
Popular Japanese Manga's are the ancestors of Japanese Anime; again, something that separates the Japanese animated media from the rest of the world. Manga is what can be described as the Japanese form of comic books and is actually more popular in Japanese society than Anime itself. Not only that, it makes up a large proportion of the sales in the Japanese book industry, raking in $4.4 Billion US Dollars in 2007 alone, something that the American and European comic industry envy very much.
Much like Anime, Manga is viewed as more acceptable and mainstream than would be seen outside of Japan. Indeed it's not uncommon to see crowds of people, of all ages and backgrounds, converging upon the local convenience store and browsing the huge selection of Manga every night. And again the content of the titles are all over the demographic scale, with adult oriented Manga sitting next to Pokemon and Doraemon on the shelf. - 2361
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