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Japanese Animation - Also Known as Anime

Japan is a proud country famous for its efficient cars, raw dishes, aesthetically-driven culture, and popular fashion. It is also famous for something the world, young and old, celebrates and labels as purely Japanese - anime.

Anime may be linguistically the abbreviation of Animation. But around the world, anime is always associated with Japanese Cartoons. Anime has special features that whenever people see the cartoons, they always recognize them to be Japanese.

In the early 1900s, cartoonists in Japan started drawing their own cartoons based on a fusion of their own culture and North American cartoons. Osamu Tezuka created a kind of Japanese animation called manga in the 1970s. These "whimsical pictures" (as the term is translated) became very popular. Manga is a fusion of traditional Japanese woodblock art that show images of floating worlds and 1950s Western animation. The strongest features of manga evolved into the basic elements of Anime. Some of these key elements include the giant robots genre ("mecha") and the complex and mature stories of the gegika, also known as Dramatic Pictures.

Despite the usual connotation of cartoons being for children, many storylines in manga are complex. Even if you read only a few manga comic books, you'll find a variety of love triangles, humor, and social commentary. There's also a wild combination of violence, superheroes and sex scenes. With all of the different elements, the characters vary a lot, so most people are able to find one or two favorites for their own tastes.

While the characters and style are always different, there are a few elements that are common to all anime drawings. The most recognizable of these features are the large, exaggerated eyes of the Anime characters. These large eyes effectively portray the characters' emotions. The characters also have much larger bodies than heads. Strong physical reactions in the comics often depict emotion. One example is of the bleeding nose and teary eyes representing intense anger, love, embarrassment or stress.

Anime is not only celebrated in TV and prints but also in fashion and the Web. Popular characters can also be found on clothing and other items such as notebooks and jewelry.

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