How Anime came

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“My name is Amjad Yassine, I like to read fantasy stories, I think of, and most of all, I’m a huge learning nerd/geek (pick nerd or geek, not both or both. I seek to bring my fantasy worlds to life.”

Introduction:

To any new readers coming here, I’m not sure if you read Anime Challenges Manga.  If you did, then you should have found a moment when I talked about the first anime.   Anime, as a genre, wasn’t really a thing back then, Katsudo Shashin is viewed more of like Japanese animation, but that was it.  The only reason, I must assume, why Katsudo Shashin is seen as the first “anime” to be shown to the world, is due to the animation originally being made in Kyoto, Japan.  Did it ever receive an English version? I do not have any idea, though it feels unlikely.  



Origin:

While cartoons did come before any official anime came along decades later, it was anime that brought in story-lines, character development.  Elements cartoons on their own would have never have discovered any of this; and if they did, they would not have had the guts to truly utilize its potential of including real-life problems. Not only this, but even the least realist design looks more real than a cartoon character would,  due to their fear of either traumatizing their audience,[more accurately, children thus being forced to censor the episode, or worse banned.] If they are lucky, they might be allowed to remake the episode. That was all changed. On the day of January 1st, 1963 with the manga adaption for Astro Boy.  Back in the day, it was nothing Japan, and later the rest of the world had ever seen. It wasn’t just a simple slapstick comedy like it always has been with others, but rather it held a story, that the watchers could learn from it. Astro Boy would open the gates for other iconic shows to be shown to the world.  Where animated series used to have solely humor, now it has life lessons, and serious issues we all have. Thus, the term “anime” has also been coined.

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Present:

Like any genre, it also began to receive below decent to simply bad shows.  It had started to take hits that were let to be impossible to many who watches anime.  There came low-budgeted anime, with an ounce to no passion. Is anime considered a dead genre?  If only had to say yes or no. I don’t think so, but it’s getting there.  “Dead” would be the right term for it,   Well, no, at least not in this century. While not everyone will agree, but like living.  Anime will reach its climax someday in the future.

Final Note:

While Anime continues to do great feats of animations and storytelling, it cannot be perfect.  Simple.

Fun Fact(s):

While the first “anime” was Katsudo Shashin in 1907 in Kyoto, Japan, the first cartoon to come was Fantasmagorie in 1908 in Paris, which was made by a French film company known as Gaumont company.

  • While low-budgeted anime don’t get too far, there have been exceptions to that rule.  Consider “His and Her Circumstances.”  While it’s nothing like DBZ [Dragon Ball Z], Sailor Moon or Kill la Kill.  It’s definitely far from being labelled as bad when compared to…  other anime *cough* *cough.*

  • The United Nations is fighting to get anime ban for no reason what so ever. <.< [yes the last three words were needed].

Work Cited:

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MyAnimeList.  His and Her Circumstances.  MyAnimeList. 2019:

https://myanimelist.net/anime/145/Kareshi_Kanojo_no_Jijou

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Quora.  How did anime become such a popular genre.  Quora. 2017:

https://www.quora.com/How-did-anime-become-such-a-popular-genre

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Tofugu.  Godfather of Anime.  Tofugu. 2013:

https://www.tofugu.com/japan/osamu-tezuka-history/

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YouTube.  Katsudo Shashin.  YouTube. 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dry3ylvqmNM

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YouTube.  Fantasmagorie.  YouTube. 2006:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=76&v=aEAObel8yIE&feature=emb_logo